Small Business Innovation Research - MDA

Abstract

This project explores innovative concepts pursuant to Public Law 106-554 (Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000) and Public Law 107-50 (Small Business Technology Transfer Program Reauthorization Act of 2001), which mandates a two-phase competition for small businesses with innovative technology that can be commercialized. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs will develop new dual-use technology for future Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) needs. Dual-use means that the technology will be judged on the potential for future private sector investment both as a vehicle for reducing development time and cost, unit costs of new BMDS technology, and as a route to national economic growth through new commercial products. MDA will conduct the competition, award, and manage the contracts. The Missile Defense Agency`s SBIR/STTR investments are divided into 14 Research Areas for the following key components: -Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): Develops Naval BMD Capability -Command, Control, Communication, Computer Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR): Defines, develops and deploys an integrated Sensor and Command and Control (C2) capability for the Ballistic Missile Defense System -Program and Integration: Supervises the non-Aegis portfolio including Targets, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Ground-based Midcourse Defense, and the Israeli programs -Test: Characterizes ballistic missile defense capability and supports fielding of an integrated and effective capability to the Warfighter -Advanced Technology: Develops technology to counter future threats SBIR and STTR topic areas for FY 2014 included: - Secure and Survivable Electronics Software - Standard Missile 3 Materials Design Improvements - Track Refinement from Off-Nominal Break-Up - Command and Control Course of Action Analysis Tool - Innovative and Modular Open System Radar Algorithm Test Environment - Reconfigurable Memory or Central Processing Unit Instruction Architecture - Radio Frequency Field Sensor for Integrated Circuits - Mapping Debris Trajectories through a Fireball - Late-Time Sensor Characterization for Missile Intercept Debris - Innovative Data Architecture Generation Across a Complex System of Systems - Statistically Significant Simulation of the Ballistic Missile Defense - Development of High Performance Computing Technology for a Distributed Modeling and Simulation Hardware Infrastructure - Innovative Solutions to Insensitive Munitions Fast Cook-off Environments and Testing - Weight Optimized Mitigation to Direct Effects of Lightning Strike on a Missile Body - Missile Avionics Architecture Insensitive to Transient Power Interrupts - Integrated Health Sensing for Highly Efficient Weapon Inspection and Sustainment - Variable Gravity Two-Phase Heat Sink for Airborne Directed Energy Systems - Robust Phase Modulators and Polarization Controllers for High Power Fiber Lasers - Enhanced Sensor Systems - High-End Tactical Grade Inertial Measurement Unit Technology for Missile Defense - Maturity and Durability Enhancement of Advanced Aerospace Materials - High Performance Long Wave Infrared Focal Plane Array Sensor for Missile Defense - Miniaturized Safe and Arm Devices - Failure Avoidance in Microelectronics Due to Coefficient of Thermal Expansion - Base Metal Electrode Capacitor Test Methods - Measurement of Remaining Effective Stabilizer in Solid Propellants

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0605502C_6_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2014 funds were transferred to Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer from other Program Elements in accordance with the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• C4I
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Area Defense
• Ballistic Missiles
• Battle Management
• Budgets
• Central Processing Units
• Command And Control
• Commerce
• Complex Systems
• Computers
• Defense Systems
• Directed Energy Weapons
• High Altitude
• Simulations
• Small Business
• Surveillance
• Technology Transfer
• Test Methods

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
• Space
• Space - Satellites