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In the proposed effort, KAC will establish a process for reverse engineering and redesigning foreign weapons, primarily the 7.62x54R PKM and the 12.7x108mm NSV. Our engineers will use laser scanning to reverse engineer weapons from our on-site museum. We will reverse engineer the bolt from the PKM in order to demonstrate the viability of the laser scanner, our engineers, and our machine shop to co ...

Mobile radios on highly dynamic platforms, when networked into a virtual antenna array, can perform distributed array agile beamforming (DAAB) to serve the purposes of communications at longer range, higher data rate, and higher quality of service, targeting (an imaging radar for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance - ISR) at longer range and higher resolution, and more powerful electronic ...

Acceleration of a launch package from a railgun is a disruptive technology with capabilities to launch projectiles in a shorter time-to-target and a greater effectiveness at long range. However, these railguns generate tremendous magnetic fields of up to 20 Telsa. These magnetic fields pose a threat to on-board, mission-critical electronics within the launch package. Mainstream Engineering Corpora ...

Phase I effort will develop an innovative Exploitation of Discrete GPS interference for Enhanced navigation (EDGE) technology. EDGE uses existing antenna configurations and RF front-ends on a missile platform (or similar platforms) to detect and locate GPS interferers (jammers and spoofers). Localized interference sources are then exploited for navigation, targeting, and guidance. Common approache ...

This proposed effort is to fabricate the next generation of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) based antennas using Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM).The PCB based antennas will be converted to Printed Circuit Structures (PCS) antennas will open up opportunities for small to large UAVs to be thoroughly integrated with electronic sensing systems at a reduced weight and lower cost.The end of this program ...

Obsolescence of electronic parts, and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) for integrated circuits (ICs) has driven the need for innovation in systems support. Die extraction and reassembly (DER) technology has been demonstrated to be a feasible option for replacing monolithic military integrated circuits. This project will demonstrate the feasibility of building comple ...

To counter Anti-Access and Area-Denial (A2/AD), one strategy is to launch synchronized attack using countermeasure-adaptable weapons with tailored autonomy so as to saturate the threat and deliver increased lethal and selectable effects. Optimized Mesh-networking Platform Navigation (OMPIN) is hereby proposed to support networked heterogeneous munitions equipped with a disparity of sensing capabil ...

Systima Technologies, Inc. in collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne is proposing to develop and demonstrate a dual mode energetic system design that incorporates an advanced energetic formulation, technology for burn-rate control, and features for IM compliance and system performance enhancement (lethality).The Phase I program includes development and refinement of the system design concepts, comp ...

Securboration Inc. will focus on Pre-milestone A and develop an innovative tool to support Systems Engineering Enhancement of Digital-thread (SEED).Pre-milestone A was selected since it will have the greatest impact on the acquisition process if SEED is able to provide a living Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)/Draft Capabilities Development document that will be used to drive the Digital Thread/Digi ...

Malicious modifications of hardware pose major concern in terms of reliable and trusted field operation of integrated circuits. To ensure security and trust of micro-chips, it is essential to develop efficient, low-cost techniques for detection of such tampering events. Conventional structural/functional testing, coverage metrics, and test generation approaches cannot be readily applied to identif ...