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The United States has fielded a layered missile defense system to counter and defeat current hostile missile threats. However, evolving adversarial capabilities requires new propulsion technologies that are highly responsive, agile and compatible to current MDA interceptor platforms. To meet this evolving need, Valley Tech Systems (VTS) is proposing the development of a high performance Affordable ...

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 ...

In this program, Freedom Photonics will develop a novel, miniature gyroscope that meets the requirements of the MDA. This gyroscope will be based on our prior work and demonstration of the gyroscope with similar performance, but larger footprint. Approved for Public Release | 18-MDA-9710 (6 Jul 18)

The Peregrine Falcon Corporation utilizing its proprietary technology in the fabrication of exotic materals will produce kinetic vehicle components such as sensor baffles, bulkheads, protective covering, shielding, interfaces, deployment systems, separations systems, housing structures for electronics, and even primary structure that will yield the lightest weight, highest performance structures p ...

Nanoscale Vacuum Channel Transistor (NVCT) technology has been demonstrated as intrinsically insensitive to ionizing radiation effects and robust enough to operate in elevated thermal environments. Nanofabrication processes need to be matured and methods need to be developed to enable advance circuits. The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) sensor and countermeasure elements can leverage NVCT ...

The MDA has needs for radiation-hardened electrical components and circuits. Thermionic-based vacuum devices have demonstrated their ruggedness and insensitivity to radiation, making them the top choice for space based operation.However, manual and cumbersome fabrication does not render it to circuit integration in an integrated circuit (IC) format to ensure best reliability and performance possib ...

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 ...

Toyon Research Corporation proposes to research and develop algorithms for low-shot object detection, adapting popular techniques to address the complexities inherent in ATR for remote sensing. Traditional object detection algorithms rely on large corpora of data which may not be available for more exotic targets (such as foreign military assets), and therefore, traditional Convolutional Neural Ne ...

Next Century Corporation proposes the development of Muggsy, a low-shot deep learning detection prototype system that learns to recognize uncommon targets in remote imagery. Our Phase I research extends and leverages an image classification system of our own design called EvoDevo. EvoDevo evolves its own neural network architecture before training to meet the complexity of the data. Muggsy uses le ...