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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA, currently uses technologies capable of detecting IEDs using airborne sensors that are demonstrated as reliable. These systems are only used for detection purposes and are not capable of neutralizing the IED. Due to IEDs being located in remote, dangerous, and hostile locations, there is high casualty risk for personnel to manually neutralize the target by ...

This is a proposal to develop a unique, Ultrashort Pulsed Off-axis Digital Holography (USPODH) system, enabling the high frequency imaging of detailed 3D structures within aerosol fields under harsh thermodynamic conditions and high optical depths where ordinary imaging is essentially useless. Many powerful imaging methods have failed to provide this capability because noise from multiple scatteri ...

In this project, we propose to identify and examine solution growth approaches for engineering perovskite single crystal for gamma spectrometry in a hand-held sensor format. We will demonstrate that the solution growth approach is able to produce perovskite single crystal in sufficient volume and quality to yield a detector crystal whose utilization presents no inherent environmental, health, or s ...

With the advent of high-density low-power sub-20nm technology processes and circuits with tens-of-billions of transistors, radiation-induced single-event effects present a new set of design challenges for terrestrial applications. Developing reliable single-event effect resilient microelectronics in these modern technology nodes is a resource and time-intensive endeavor that further requires valid ...

DTRA uses High Fidelity Computer Codes (HFCC) to investigate weapon effects and techniques for countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). End-to-end HFCC simulations in support of the DTRA Agent Defeat Warfighter Capability will require calculations including multiple phenomena that occur in vastly different time scales (µ-sec to hours). As DTRA becomes increasingly reliant on computational mo ...

The overall goals of our effort are to reduce the cost and lead times of test articles while maintaining their fidelity. Corvid Technologies will partner with North Carolina State University to examine why metal alloys produced by AM processes differ in high strain-rate response compared to traditional foundry (TM) alloys at their CAMAL facility. We will identify the differences in response by exa ...

We propose developing ConnextSim, a robust, performant, scalable, distributed, and open M&S framework that will address the needs of the MDA. Building upon a foundation of our TRL9 commercial software. Our solution will provide the capability to connect distributed models including phenomenology, sensors, 6DOF, and lethality models in an end-to-end (E2E) simulation in order to support performance ...

K&C is proposing a Phase I SBIR project to develop and demonstrate a cost-effective solution consisting of a suite of miniaturized test devices and material samples capable of meeting the requirements of SBIR topic MDA18-010. Our proposed solution will allow for characterizing C-C composites at high strains and strain rates (>106 s-1), temperatures from room temperature up to and beyond 1000 deg C ...

The DoD M&S community has embraced the federation approach towards interoperability and reuse for nearly 30 years. Despite its broad community support, the federation approach has inherent problems concerning (a) achieving scalable run-time performance without sacrificing fidelity, (b) the high cost to design, develop, document, test, validate, integrate, and execute models, and (c) efficiently ma ...

We propose to develop an extensible, composable, highly scalable, secure, comprehensive model-level integrated simulation architecture. It builds upon widely successful open source and open standards technologies. Integrated simulation models developed by our framework can exchange simulation data items via strongly typed and type-extensible data interfaces for interoperability with other models. ...