NUMERICA CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA14-003
NUMERICA CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $124,994
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- MDA14-003
- Solicitation
- 2014.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2014-12-22 → 2015-07-21
Description
The performance of methods for track refinement from break-up events involving ballistic missiles may be degraded by certain unexpected off-nominal behaviors. For example, if the parent object is a rotating rigid body, it possesses rotational kinetic energy that could be released as translational kinetic energy during a separation event. The conversion of rotational energy to translational energy can result in unexpected velocities for the separation objects. To accommodate this off-nominal behavior in the track refinement procedure, we propose a solution founded on a model of the underlying physics of rotating bodies. The value of our approach will be demonstrated during the Phase I effort using Monte-Carlo simulations of off-nominal break-up events. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-8047 (14 Nov 14)