Space Micro Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA17-012
Space Micro Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- MDA17-012
- Solicitation
- 2017.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2017-11-06 → 2019-01-05
Description
State-of-the-art COTS microelectronics are often found to be susceptible to radiation and systems are required to be redesigned with a new electronic piece-part or multiple kilogram metal shielding.These modifications increase weight, size, costs, and schedule to the program. Space Micro will design radiation shields based on our modeling/simulation tools and thenleverage existing commercially available additive manufacturing processes and materials that prints shields of graded atomic number (Z) materials for use as a radiation shield around packaged COTS microelectronic parts.We will demonstrate by analysisa reduction in the components susceptibility to radiation induced failure, such as single-event upsets from protons and X-ray dose-rate upset/ survival.Approved for Public Release | 17-MDA-9395(24 Oct 17)