SBIR-STTR Award

Full Spectrum Technologies, Inc. (FSTI) is proposing to demonstrate an Insensitive Munitions (IM) systems engineering approach to the development of large (i.e., 14 to 21 inch diameter) solid rocket motors (SRM) for applications to critical Missile Defense Agency (MDA) programs such as the Thermal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile or Ground Based Mid-Course Defense (GMD). Specifically, we are proposing to apply a unique modeling and simulation (M&S) methodology that we believe will provide SRM that meet both performance requirements and IM requirements while reducing system development costs, schedule risks and test requirements.

Keywords:
Insensitive Munitions, Modeling And Simulation, Solid Rocket Propellant Formulation, Large Diameter Rocket Motor Design, Combustion Modeling

The Phase I SBIR will deliver Analog Rocket Motors that simulate the configuration of large MDA rocket motors (e.g., the AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) and Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI)) for IM testing of propellants and mitigation technology. The M&S computational methodology developed during Phase I provides an engineering solution to designing technology to allow propellant combustion gases to vent in a pressure balanced manner during fast or slow cookoff (FCO/SCO) reactions, thus providing non-propulsive Burn (Type V) reactions. Finally, FCO and SCO tests of the Analog Rocket Motors will establish the reactions of HTBP and HTPE propellants in identical configurations and demonstrate whether vent designs (i.e., size, location and material) developed using our M&S methodology can prevent unacceptable reactions.

Keywords:
Insensitive Munitions, Analog Rocket Motors, Large Diameter Rocket Motors, Mda Systems, Im Testing Of Propellants, Mitigation Technology