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ISX proposes to expand and harden the Fuselet Runtime Execution and Management Environment (FREeME) created in the Phase I effort. Upon completion, the FREeME system will provide secure, scalable fuselet operation capabilities to the JBI infrastructure, as well as IMS management tools to support the management of fuselets within the JBI. This will allow the JBI to better perform the role of a dyna ...

During Phase I, MARK Resources demonstrated that: (1) real-time radar discrimination of BMD targets is feasible at S-band up to large aspect angles, through measurements of target shape, dimensions, and motion, plus positions and characteristics of target scatterers, and (2) the fusion of measurements at S-band and X-band improves discrimination performance by enabling the extraction of features n ...

Currently, MKV incorporates an optical seeker with a fixed, narrow-angle telescope. A fast steering mirror is being developed to enable scanning over a wider field of view, as jitter control and zoom capability. A segmented design, comprising an array of micromirrors, minimizes weight, size, and response time. The Phase I effort met proposed milestones, including demonstration of tip-tilt motion o ...

In Phase II, Microcosm, with our principal subcontractor, NAVSYS, propose to develop a breadboard prototype of the Precision Navigation with Integrated Attitude Determination (PNIAD) system - a very compact package that integrates an IMU, a GPS receiver, and a small star sensor. Phase I focused on the top level design and establishing system performance via simulation. Preliminary requirements wer ...

This program will develop CMOS “Read In Integrated Circuits” (RIIC) that have the unique capability of delivering the high current densities required to operate the next generation of very high-temperature resistive emitters. Heretofore impossible because of the very large unit cell current levels required, Nova will make use of the advances made in the Phase I program to produce wafers that ...

This Phase II SBIR project seeks to develop an ultrasensitive optical health monitoring instrument that is capable of measuring changes in the performance of HEL optical components in real-time. The instrument will rapidly and precisely detect extremely small changes in optical loss with high temporal resolution over an extended period of time, and provide a history for subsequent correlation wit ...

This Phase II SBIR project seeks to develop an ultra-sensitive, in-situ sensor for NH3 leak detection onboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft. The proposed instrument will be capable of rapidly (

End product of SBIR is a fully qualified NED for use in GBI (4/Kill Vehicle and 4/Booster). The NED is 1/15 the volume and has 1/3 the power consumption of leading commercial NED. It will enable DISTRIBUTED, MULTI-LEVEL circumvention and recovery, replacing the current single-level circumvention of the ENTIRE electronics. This will also allow optimization and reduction of GBI shielding. The NED wi ...

New internal actuation technologies and integrated design of guidance-control systems for kinetic kill vehicles are proposed. These actuation technologies can be used for KKV trajectory and attitude control in any speed range, both within and outside the atmosphere. Since the actuators are contained entirely within the airframe geometric envelope, and because no mass expulsion is involved, they of ...

A novel Decision Theoretics algorithm based on cascaded generalized and Bayesian likelihood tests in a Neyman-Pearson detection was demonstrated under Phase-I. OKSI demonstrated EO/IR subpixel target detection, identification, and countermeasure mitigation. The algorithm was tested with the airborne HYDICE sensor and the Forest Radiance data set. Detector ROC curves were developed to establish ...