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Thermally induced fatigue and residual stress introduced during fabrication are sources of failure in microelectronics, which raises reliability concerns for MDA and its system integrators. CFDRC has teamed with experts in the reliability of microelectronics packaging to develop a physics based modeling and testing protocol to correlate material properties and thermal loading conditions to stress ...

"This proposal describes a plan to meet the Missile Defense Agencys requirement to develop a framework for missile defense operations planning with embedded training, including missile defense threat engagement operations management planning, operations contingency planning, and training of operators to execute those plans.A system that Integrates planning and training operations will greatly bene ...

The proposed effort is to develop and demonstrate a missile defense planner architectural framework that allows dynamic instantiation of system components and or capabilities, as well as providing simple low-bandwidth methods of data sharing between processes. The approach will also demonstrate how the proposed architecture could be used to simplify the evolution of missile defense product develop ...

nou Systems, Inc. proposes the Contextual In-line Signature Injection (CISI) technique, an innovative and flexible software toolset for exploring the contextual requirements for signature fidelity based on missile defense functionality and sensor configurations, in response to the Missile Defense Agencys (MDA) SBIR Phase I Solicitation, Inline Threat Generation for Modeling and Simulation.The prop ...

Accomplishing enterprise integration requires attainable technology innovation, engineering vision, and integration planning.An integration plan that accounts for tools and methods to address integration in all phases of the lifecycle from product to system to enterprise integration, mitigates integration risk, decreases integration cost and schedule, and provides insight into the state of the int ...

CohesionForce proposes the development of a System Integration Team Environment (SITE) to shorten system level simulation integration time.The proposed SITE toolkit will provide an integrated team collaboration environment that can be integrated with the tools that are currently being used for development in MDA's distributed simulation enterprise.The proposed toolkit leverages an existing tool th ...

Modeling and simulation has long played a crucial role in the design and development of High Energy laser systems.Historically, two distinct types of optical performance models for HEL system models have been very important: wave optics models, and scaling law models.Wave optics models are both more accurate and more robust, yielding reliable performance predictions even for systems incorporating ...

The long read time, low data-rate and constrained dynamic-range of analog ROICs limits LWIR sensor performance.An analog ROIC output signal is susceptible to noise requiring added shielding and additional electronics for subsequent signal processing.Digital readout integrated circuits (DROICs) using in-pixel processing and an all-digital readout which can mitigate some of these limitations, but re ...

"The current state of the art reserve battery technologies will not be able to meet requirements that call for higher power and longer runtimes in smaller spaces. The principal avenue for increasing the power and energy density is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to develop ( ...

Thermal batteries are single discharge reserve batteries that provide very long shelf life, minimal self-discharge, wide storage temperature range, fast activation under sudden power demand, and also wide range of temperature operating conditions. Such unique properties among electrochemical power systems are provided with application of molten salt electrolyte, which is in solid form under normal ...