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CeraNova conformal spinel windows that will provide enhanced performance over traditional, flat sapphire windows.Conformal spinel windows will maintain the curvature of the nose cone and will thus eliminate aerodynamic hot spots caused by flat surfaces.CeraNovas transparent ceramics and experience in manufacturing conformal optics will be leveraged to enable design and fabrication of a conformal w ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop 3D-printed, graded-atomic-number (Z) ionizing radiation shielding (1-piece cladding) for missile defense microelectronics.Leveraging SI2s extensive additive manufacturing experience, SI2s low-SWAP, low-cost shielding will be designed to protect both unmounted and board-mounted microelectronics. This approach will accommodate multiple types and sizes ...

The purpose of this proposal is to develop an additive manufacturing process capable of printing radiation blocking material around a microelectronic component. The goal of the radiation shield is to mitigate single event effects from a linear energy transfer (LET) > 20 [MeV-cm2]/mg particle and reduce radiation dose rate by 25%. During Phase I, Triton Systems proposes to prove the feasibility of ...

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes to design, develop and demonstrate a novel insensitive munition compliant, high performance, green storable liquid propellant for advanced exo-atmospheric interceptors. This new propellant formulation can be treated as a monopropellant or as a bipropellant system with predicted specific impulse and density specific impulses exceeding AF-M315E, LMP-103S, and the dens ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) in collaboration with the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) proposes advancement of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) gyroscope as an inertial sensor for missile and hypervelocity projectile applications.In the NMR gyroscope, the quantum mechanical angular momentum spin in the nuclei of a xenon gas forms the sensing mechanism.Since this atomic vapor has no moving par ...

The goal of this project is to develop basic semiconductor components (field-effect transistors) that can be deployed in highly radioactive environments, such as nuclear plants, space, radioactive waste storage facilities. Ionizing radiation often has a detrimental influence on the performance of microelectronics components. We propose to develop a prototype microelectronics technology for use in ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. proposes to improve the volumetric efficiency and reduce the system weight of next-generation kill vehicles (KVs) by developing low profile, lightweight, multifunctional components. Specifically, SI2 will utilize in-house capabilities to design and additively manufacture (AM) a multi-functional structure that includes an S-band datalink antenna integrated within the structur ...

As the United States makes strides in developing, testing, and deploying missile defense technology, the human element remains core to the integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) architecture. Human operators oversee the command and control at the system, component, and element level across a vast array of networked ground-, sea-, and space-based sensors and interceptors to eff ...

Over many data collection campaigns, a large number of propulsion related signature events have been observed across an extended range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The current suite of plume modeling tools contains the basic framework for flowfield and signature generation, but lacks the underlying physical mechanisms and supporting property databases to properly account for alternate waveband ...

We intend to dramatically improve the performance of the Standardized Atmosphere Generator (SAG), an environmental background model used to characterize the atmospheric state.SAG is an empirical model which creates a complete picture of the atmospheric state for electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) and radar (RF) systems as well as trajectory computations for targeting and tracking.These systems requi ...