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Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials for High Strain Rate Applications
SBC: MRL MATERIALS RESOURCES LLC Topic: MDA17T001Metallic additive manufacturing (AM) is an attractive technology for the production of lethality test articles due to the potential for significantly reduced lead time and manufacturing cost.However, in order to be effective in providing accurate lethality data, the properties of the AM material have to match closely the properties of conventionally manufactured alloys found in real threat targets ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Control Electronics for Space-Qualified Cryogenic Coolers
SBC: CREARE LLC Topic: MDA17T003Future MDA space missions will utilize small spacecraft with correspondingly small, advanced sensor systems. Cooling of these sensors is required to decrease detector noise and increase detector sensitivity by maintaining the detector at a reduced operating temperature. The cooling system comprises a mechanical cryocooler and its control electronics, both of which are critical technologies to enab ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Proactive Risk Monitoring Using Predictive Analytics
SBC: ARCTOS Technology Solutions, LLC Topic: MDA16T002Presently the missile defense systems are using a reactive and program-centric framework for assessing industrial base risk. The Phase I effort focused on developing a wide and deep network algorithm using Industrial Product-Support Vendor (IPV) Gen II program for predicting the probability of failure. The proposed Phase II effort leverages the Phase I work and will focus on three main goals:(1) I ...
STTR Phase II 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Performance MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit for Missile Systems
SBC: SPECTRAL ENERGIES LLC Topic: MDA17015The proposed project aims to pursue an innovative approach of utilizing deep learning algorithms to improve the performance of state-of-the-art MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to push their performance to fullest extent possible as replacements for existing Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) systems for navigation and guidance in future missile system avionics including Sounding Rockets. During P ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Green Monopropellant Thruster TRL Maturation Scaling Effort
SBC: CREARE LLC Topic: MDA12T008Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs) have great potential for high-energy lasers. Proper design of these systems is challenging because many interrelated processes impact their performance, and critical kinetic rate coefficients are not well known. In response, our team is developing a comprehensive physics-based analysis/design tool, and experimentally determining key kinetic rate coefficients. The ...
STTR Phase II 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Lightweight Magnesium Components of a Missile Body
SBC: TERVES, LLC Topic: MDA17T004Magnesium alloys have 35% lower density compared to aluminum, with improved temperature stability compared to high strength aluminum.They can also be fabricated with minimum gauge thicknesses considerably thinner than fiber composites, and are weldable, with much higher impact resistance.Traditional magnesium alloys, however, have had lower strengths than more developed aluminum alloys.Powder meta ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Test Article Printing with Laser Additive Manufacturing (TAP-LAM) for Threat Surrogate Target Production
SBC: MV INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Topic: MDA17T001Optonicus proposes development of the TAP-LAM (Test Article Printing with Laser Additive Manufacturing for Threat Surrogate Target Production) powder bed fusion and directed energy depositions systems. The TAP-LAM metal additive manufacturing system will advance strategic missile defense system testing capabilities by improving 3D printing methods to rapidly produce large-scale threat surrogate ta ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Sensor Resource Management
SBC: EDAPTIVE COMPUTING INC Topic: MDA11011The expansion in the Missile Defense Agency"s mission to include emphasis on theater and regional missile defense necessitates the development of innovative concepts and techniques for employment planning and real time tasking of a variety of distributed sensor resources. Needed are algorithms in a number of closely coupled areas including: fusion of information from disparate and possibly hetero ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Contamination-Free, Lightweight, Helium-Rubidium Vapor Circulation System
SBC: CREARE LLC Topic: MDA12018Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser Systems (DPALS) require a uniform, steady, flowing mixture of helium and rubidium vapor at elevated pressure and temperature. Significant challenges exist because rubidium is a very reactive material. In response, our team is developing a contamination-free, all-metal, hermetic, circulation system based on gas-bearing turbomachines. Specific benefits include low mass, ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Thermal Isolation of Nozzle Exit Cone Insulators
SBC: MENTIS SCIENCES INC Topic: MDA12027Mentis and SDC are developing materials suitable for operating in extreme environments, such as those experienced by exit nozzles in Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control Systems (TDCAS), or as thermal protection in ballistic missiles and payload delivery systems. A material characterization effort is required to establish accurate material properties at storage and operational conditions. Ap ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency