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An innovative, new seeker gimbal design featuring “drop in” integration into the missile tube. Transporting, warehousing, and other aspects of logistical support is aided by its innovative and rugged design. A major improvement over traditional gimbals that require “ship within a bottle” assembly techniques. Most gimbals require interior brackets bolted into the missile tube before the fra ...

IFOS is developing an integrated optical driver (IOD) for next-generation navigation and miniaturized avionics. The IOD is based on emerging photonic integrated circuit (PIC) manufacturing platforms which leverage established semiconductor industry infrastructure. The enabler IOD has very high integration density to realize the essential multi-functionalities for new fiber-optic gyroscopes (FOGs). ...

TiER1’s proposed SCYTHE (Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities) system will advance the state-of-the-art in cyber operator training technologies. SCYTHE combines proven technologies and gameful learning design with innovative advances in intelligent agent authoring capabilities. SCYTHE leverages your training sandbox where trainee cyber defenders interact with SCYTHE’s advanced attacker ...

Future interceptors would benefit from advanced propulsion capabilities, with higher performance in smaller, volume-constrained systems. Innovative propellant chemistry is needed to enable substantially greater performance in smaller packages. One factor limiting the maximum performance achievable in modern solid propellants is the slow ignition and combustion of the propellant’s metal fuel part ...

In this program, Freedom Photonics will develop a novel, 3-axis, low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) gyroscope suitable for missile defense applications. The approach is based on novel, high-performance sensing technology. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)

A new type of thrust vector control (TVC) system is proposed to enable a high-performance, low-cost defense against ballistic threats. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)

In the Phase I effort, GTL showed that future missile interceptor performance can be substantially increased by the combination of an innovative configuration and a breakthrough composite tank technology. The Phase II effort will include material characterization testing and the fabrication and testing of multiple small-scale tanks. Based on those results, GTL will design, analyze, fabricate and t ...

Vadum has demonstrated the Optimal Advanced Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP) Trajectory System (OATHS) which increases the performance of the HVP by optimizing HVP trajectory to its target. OATHS was prototyped and tested using an in-house MATLAB-based combat system development environment. The results of Phase I testing show that OATHS can feasibly increase HVP probability of kill or reduce the tot ...

A recent flight test of a hypersonic vehicle resulted in failure that was traced to thermostructural damage in the carbon-carbon aeroshell. When the vehicle was exposed to peak thermal gradients, interlaminar shear stresses were created that caused external plies to delaminate. The structural failures caused aerodynamic disturbances that led to vehicle instability. The program proposed here seeks ...

A significant weight reduction on missile platforms could increase maneuverability of the payload and allow more capable payloads. High temperature composite materials offer the means by which low cost and lighter weight missile structures can be achieved. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)