You are here

Metrology for Ogive Infrared Dome

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68936-07-C-0044
Agency Tracking Number: N061-069-0332
Amount: $749,540.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N06-069
Solicitation Number: 2006.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-05-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-05-23
Small Business Information
6400 E. Grant Road Suite 350
Tucson, AZ 85715
United States
DUNS: 099378374
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Matthew Dubin
 Sr. Optical Engineer
 (520) 721-0500
 mdubin@breault.com
Business Contact
 Mark Fink
Title: Director of Eng. Services
Phone: (520) 721-0500
Email: mfink@breault.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The economical fabrication of ogive missile domes is a key driver for the development of future missile systems. An essential, and unsolved, part of the fabrication process is the fast and accurate measurement of the transmitted-wavefront error of the ogive dome over its full aperture. In the proposal we describe the development of a prototype interferometer for solving this measurement problem. The interferometer that is proposed is insensitive to alignment yet provides measurements of the entire aperture in double-pass while stitching in only one direction. It is configured in a manner that is relatively insensitive to alignment of the dome to the instrument. The measurement data provided by this instrument is essential to providing feedback to a deterministic final figuring process such as magnetorheological based technology. The effort is divided into two major phases: an algorithm testbed and a prototype instrument. The testbed will be based mostly on catalog components to allow for rapid implementation so that software can be developed and tested quickly. After the testbed, a prototype system will be built that will allow for the full aperture measurement of tangent ogive domes.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

US Flag An Official Website of the United States Government