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This Statement of Work (SOW) defines the support required for a multi-task effort related to the design and fabrication of a ceramic resin matrix composite nosecone to fulfill Block IIB mission requirements. MSI will develop composite material component designs that fulfill the aerothermal and structural requirements established by Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) and the SM3 Program Office, an ...

In missile defense applications, on-board radio frequency (RF) systems perform many critical tasks such as target tracking, detecting and addressing adversarial electronic warfare threats, and guidance. Printed RF systems have the potential to meet many of the stringent environmental and size, weight, and power requirements of missile defense systems with their reduced weight in a conformal and fl ...

This Phase II SBIR proposal addresses the requirement to significantly improve the affordability and mission performance of SDACS propulsion components by embarking on a program to develop and optimize hafnium-based or hafnium hafnium nitride claddings for advanced structural insulator substrate materials of current interest to MDA programs.Phase II partner Materials Research & Design (MR&D), Wayn ...

Narrow line width fiber lasers have great potential for high-power directed energy applications. The beams of multiple fibers can be combined using spectral or coherent methods for scaling to high power levels. To successfully achieve goals of multi-kW fiber laser system scaling, accurate methods are needed to predict the performance of individual fibers and how their performance is affected by fi ...

The adoption of Human-Machine Interface (HMI) technologies for BMDS planning, test and evaluation, operations, and mission control must be undertaken in a carefully planned manner. Lacking are methods to test the effectiveness of user interface technologies for improved situation awareness and decision-making ability. Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.’s (KBSI) Intuitive User Interface Technolog ...

Significant effort has been expended into the advancement of flexible, additively manufactured (AM) electronic systems. Less well studied are the effects of additively manufactured RF elements such as antennas, waveguides, and their required interconnects. Primarily, with respect to AM RF elements there is insufficient engineering data to rationally choose the ink materials and substrates and corr ...

Future solid propulsion systems will require higher propellant burn temperatures to achieve improvements in impulse and thrust. We propose to continue development of our novel seal technology that will enable significant increases in temperature at the seal location. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of our approach through analysis, prototyping, and proof‑of‑concept demonstrations. In Pha ...

There is an ever-growing need for increased battery performance in weight-sensitive and volume-constrained applications. Also needed is the ability to develop batteries with non-standard form factors to accommodate tight size constraints. Erigo and our collaborators at EaglePicher Technologies propose to develop a thermal battery by leveraging advances in cathode formulations, fabrication techniqu ...

The Ultimate Goal of these research efforts is to develop ALLVAR Alloy athermalizing strut components that enable size, weight, cost, lead time, and performance enhancements of SiC mirrored optical seekers that must withstand extreme exo-atmosphere, endo-atmosphere, and mechanical loading environments. ALLVAR Alloys offer a brand-new strong and ductile support structure solution that can offer low ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to design, demonstrate, validate, and harden an innovative solution for the analysis and enhanced understanding of federated simulation output data in a manner that consistently increases data analysts’ efficiency and effectiveness. Building off the successful Phase I ‘Data Retrieval Assistant for COnsistent simulation data exploration using semant ...