The purpose of this SBIR is to develop a miniature autonomous health monitoring system for missile systems and motors, to continuously monitor environmental conditions of the host system while in long term storage for at least 10 years, so that when taken out of long term storage an objective decision can be made whether the host system can be deployed or must be discarded. The health monitoring device must be small, lightweight, low cost, accurate, and HERO compliant. At a minimum, the health monitoring system must monitor temperature and humidity however additional modalities (in order of priority) are pressure, chemical, shock, and vibration. During Phase I, the feasibility and expected performance of the system design to meet the above functionality and SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) will be determined through modeling and analysis. During Phase II, the system design will be implemented and prototyped. McQ has developed a similar health monitoring system for the US military which will be directly leveraged for this SBIR.
Benefit: The Trident GuMM system will provide the Navy with a low cost continuous monitoring system which will monitor the Trident missile systems, and other warhead systems, to ensure that the environmental conditions of the missile system has not been altered such that the missile system should no longer be deployed. The outcome of the Phase II SBIR program for this project would produce a useable system for this application. Commercial applications of the system, with limited functionality and a lower price point, include temperature/humidity measurement for consumer product categories such as cigars, wine, and musical instruments.
Keywords: Embedded System, Embedded System, Environmental monitoring, Trident, Health monitoring, low SWAP
