SBIR-STTR Award

A Risk Reduction Process for Enhanced Mission Assurance
Award last edited on: 10/30/2012

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : MDA
Total Award Amount
$1,077,668
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
MDA08-021
Principal Investigator
Dave Domingue

Company Information

Advanced Core Technologies LLC (AKA: ACT)

1535 Hobby Street Suite 207
North Charleston, SC 29405
   (478) 397-2806
   ddomingue@advanced-core.com
   www.advcoretech.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: Charleston

Phase I

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Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase I year
2009
Phase I Amount
$99,813
Advanced Core Technologies brings three advanced competencies together to support a successful research effort required to identify, foster, and deploy technologies promising reliability enhancing materials and manufacturing innovations. Self-learning search methods, sophisticated information association techniques, and stochastic forecasting enables a system capable of 5, 10, and 20 year forecasts for probability of maturation, magnitude of reliability benefit, mission assurance, and cost benefits generated for candidate materials and manufacturing innovation. The Phase I research plan includes development of an end-to-end framework that includes a set of information collection and analysis functions to support the search for materials and manufacturing advancement with promise. The architecture includes two major modules: a Reliability and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) module and Monitoring, Extrapolation and a Modeling of future Solution Scenarios (MEMSS) module. The application will provide a responsive and persistent assessment and decision support capability to enhance and guide investment decisions that foster development and suggest incorporation of candidates into acquisition and sustainment technology roadmaps.

Keywords:
Future Solution Scenarios, Continuous And Self-Learning Assessments Of Future Technologies, Technology Roadmaps, Material And Component Technologies, Manufacturing Process Inn

Phase II

Contract Number: ----------
Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase II year
2010
Phase II Amount
$977,855
Advanced Core Technologies brings 3 advanced competencies together to identify, foster, and deploy technologies promising reliability enhancing materials and manufacturing innovations. Self-learning search methods, sophisticated information association techniques, and stochastic forecaasting enables the Technology Monitoring and Mapping Module (TM3) capable of 5, 10, and 20 year forecasts for probability of maturation, magnitude of reliability benefit, and mission assurance. Phase I provided the foundation for a proactive view and transition to a unique insight into the technology development cycle allowing decision makers to examine the Basic and Applied research environment for emerging solutions to specifically defined reliability issues. Phase I demonstrated the capability to Monitor the technology development environment, to Extrapolate from the Basic and Applied research community applicable findings, and to Model future Solution Scenarios providing insight into the degree of surety that a reliability issue will be adequately addressed within a defined period of time. The Phase II research is on identifying reliability driven requirements for technology development and the assessment and prioritization of impact on mission assurance based on estimates of consequence. The Phase II innovation product, the RVA sub-module will be developed and integrated with MEMSS. Phase II will deliver a working application to support the SM-3 production ramp-up funded to support the emerging BMDS system architecture. The deployed system will contribute greatly to meeting the cradle-to-grave part and material traceability required by PMAP Revision A. Together Phase I and II provide an ‘over-the-horizon’ view of the technology development and utilization phases of the technology lifecycle that stretches out up to 20 years.

Keywords:
Future Solutions Scenarios, Continous And Self-Learning Assessments Of Future Technologies, Technology Roadmaps, Material And Component Technologies, Manufacturing Process Inn