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Control Vision, Inc. (CVI) proposes a flight-worthy calibrated visible snapshot hyperspectral sensor prototype for use on an MDA test mission. Approved for Public Release | 23-MDA-11401 (14 Mar 23)

The proposed program will design a microwave interferometer for the purpose of measuring the electron density and other fundamental parameters of Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL) gain media. Although several models of the collisional chemistry of DPALs exist, benchmarking such models with experimental measurements has been hampered by the absence of experimental measurements of the electron densit ...

ATA’s proposed innovation is SPOT-lyt, the Streaming Platform for Object Tracking Analytics, a system for real-time and forensic tracking and analysis of moving objects with cutting-edge capabilities in data fusion, simulation, machine learning, and streaming analytics platform operations. For Phase II of this SBIR effort, we propose to use the prototype developed during Phase I as the foundatio ...

Running and testing highly complex models and simulations has historically been a very computationally intensive and extremely inefficient process, since full simulations are run from start to finish for each realization of a set of stochastic variables until a full distribution of simulation outcomes has been established. Recently, the concept of cloning has been used to speed up stochastic simul ...

Triton Systems and its partners propose to continue developing high-temperature dynamic seals for use in Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) to help enable higher thrust and impulse. Such SRMs will require higher burning solid propellants, and that increased burn temperature will create significant thermal challenges for the materials used in SRMs. In Phase I, we demonstrated the feasibility of our nanocom ...

Spectral Sciences, Inc. proposes to extend the existing suite of simulation tools, currently optimized for boost-glide configurations and apply the suite for powered hypersonic missile signature prediction. In Phase I, we have integrated physical models and demonstrated feasibility of the approach by applying the prototype code to select problems. The successful feasibility demonstration provides ...

The MDA has identified a need for decreasing the time required for simulations and rendering by orders of magnitude. To address this need, Stellar Science and the University of New Mexico (UNM) propose the development and use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), which have been shown to reduce execution times dramatically while still maintaining small errors compared to traditional physics ...

DoD and its industrial base are moving from a document centric system engineering approach to Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Extensive effort is required to manually generate architecture models for legacy systems defined in disparate sources. An efficient, cost-effective, automated approach is needed to generate system architecture models for legacy systems from all its disparate sources o ...

An AI/ML-enabled simulation optimization tool can exploit existing simulation models to streamline the scenario planning and analysis process. Our Phase II project will focus on using AI/ML techniques and simulation optimization to solve the problem of generating a minimal collection of test scenarios, using the minimum number of shared scenario components that meets a required set of test objecti ...

OptTek will apply our novel mapping, adaptive sampling, and optimization capabilities to help MDA better understand the operational effectiveness of the MDS under multi-threat missile raids. While digital simulations provide faster feedback on missile defense performance than a ground test, the computational costs are still too high to handle the combinatorial explosion of parameter combinations a ...