Innovative Technology

Mission

The Mission of Innovative Technologies Area is to address complex inter-disciplinary scientific and engineering challenges of national importance to the U.S. defense communities. This business area was established as an incubator group to start, foster, and develop emerging capabilities of new technologies.

Framing camera picture using repetitively pulsed laser illumination at one million pulses per second. Dynamics of a pellet impacting a very thin glass microscope slide cover slip are shown.

Core Competencies

Core competencies include impact physics, damage assessment, and resulting debris characteristics and signatures. Impacting objects include kill vehicle/kinetic warheads as well as rod like penetrators. Applications include ballistic missile defense and space asset vulnerabilities and negation. Expertise includes diagnostic instrumentation to characterize the velocity of fragments and blast waves from various warheads and line charges both out in the open and in confined spaces.

Current Research Thrusts Include:

• Research, Analysis, Characterization/Modeling of Weapons Effects for the Aegis BMD Program

- Sponsor: NAVSEA PD452

- Objective: Damage, signatures, hit point and kill assessment analyses for Aegis BMD within the flight test program and participation on the Kill Assessment IPT.


• Space Debris Characterization Study

- Sponsor: The Aerospace Corporation/AF Space Command

- Objective: Based on previous PSI directed tests and developed models, provide estimates for debris generated by one and multiple space object impacts from direct ascent and orbiting interceptors.


• Penetrator Performance Enhancement

- Sponsor: ONR

- Objective: Determination of the penetrator requirements for specific hole size generation and with a penetrator remnant for selected undersea targets for inert and reactive material penetrators.



Area Leadership

Dr. Peter Nebolsine

The Innovative Technologies Area is led by Dr. Peter Nebolsine who has 35 years of experience leading contract efforts primarily for the department of defense in missile defense and space control with kinetic energy interceptors and also single pulse, CW and repetitively pulsed laser effects for a variety of military targets. He has also led a variety of efforts to develop warhead diagnostics.

Peter E. Nebolsine Physical Sciences Inc. 20 New England Business Center Andover, MA 01810-1077 Telephone: (978) 689-0003 Fax: (978) 689-3232 nebolsine@psicorp.com

 

 

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