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Seed Innovations applies our experience in framework development, modeling and simulation, automatic code generation, and software architecture to accomplish the research for the SBIR topic: Model Level Integrated Simulation Architecture for Collaborative Development. Through the research on this project, Seed Innovations designs and develops a prototype system, the Flexible Integrated Simulation ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking alternative energy storage solutions that can offer both high energy and high power performance without compromising spacecraft mass or cost budgets. The System for Ultrahigh Rate Gravimetrically Efficient Storage (SURGES), is a drop-in replacement to current spacecraft battery systems. In a single package, SURGES combines emerging high energy and power ...

Optical Engines productized and ruggedized product line of patented etched air taper combiners has been operating in the field for over 5 years at pump power levels over 2kW. These pump/signal combiners have a pump efficiency of over 99%. At power levels much greater than 2kW, excessive heating and damage occurs not in the combiner itself but rather in the passive fiber that links the combiner to ...

In this proposal, Reservoir Labs introduces an innovative approach to the problem of orbital track reconstruction and discrimination from radar data. We propose a technique that utilizes radar returns over a much longer observation window than is current (minutes and tens of minutes not seconds), for greatly improved integrated tracking and discrimination. As an example, we extract key informatio ...

In response to the need for improved thermal management in airborne DE systems, i2C Solutions and New Mexico State University (NMSU) are developing a Stable Maneuverable AiRborne Thermal Management (SMART) two-phase cold plate designed specifically to interface with laser diode arrays resulting in an exceptionally effective, lightweight and simple thermal management subsystem. The SMART device inc ...

Ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems use carbon cloth - phenolic (CCP) resin composite materials as ablative insulators in the inlets and throats of many rocket motor nozzles. However, the reliability of hydrophilic phenolic resin composites is compromised through variations in their moisture content, which is created endogenously and added or lost according to the humidity of the storage envir ...

Reservoir Labs and Johns Hopkins University will develop alternative numerical solution techniques that improve computational loading, data storage, and data integrity for rocket vehicle trajectory modeling in MDA federated simulations.The objective of this program is to develop new techniques for trajectory propagation that are more suited for use in federated simulations than traditional methods ...

MDAs mission is to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight.To accomplish this mission, the BMDS incorporates a substantial array of sensors and weapon systems, plus a Command, Control, Battle Management, and Co ...

Integument Technologies, Inc. (Prime) proposes to focus on the development of lightning strike protection surface skins (or appliques) fabricated from flexible, lightweight high temperature films, fabrics, metallic foils and adhesives. The proposed Lightning Strike ProtectiveApplique (LSPA) system will be based on Arc-Root Dispersion technology and be readily adaptable to composite (e.g., Carbon F ...

The 2011 launches of ORS-1and TacSat-4 have demonstrated the feasibility to rapidly deploy spacecraft. These successes and progress on the Modular Space Vehicle, along with standardization (Space Plug and Play Architecture) continue to show promise in a responsive space architecture focused on modularity and reconfigurability. There is a need to enhance the capability of small spacecraft to suppor ...