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Miltec has a staff of highly trained and experienced engineers and scientist who specialize in Kinetic Energy Weapons effects and lethality analysis. With many years of collective experience in the areas of hypervelocity impact phenomena and kinetic energy penetrators, Miltec possesses a dynamic and highly efficient group capable of solving complex problems and delivering quality products to our customers. Recent examples of core capability and accomplishments include 1) Design of a highly lethal penetrator sub-system through a PDR for the CKEM program using first-principles codes (i.e. CTH) and analytic codes (i.e. Walker-Anderson model); 2) KEW warhead effects analysis through SRR for the LCI program using AGILE and legacy lethality codes; 3) Support to a joint US/German hypervelocity impact test and evaluation program; 4) Programmatic and technical support to ATEC/AEC for PATRIOT PAC-3 and THAAD systems in a role of continuous evaluation and LFT&E support; 5) Successful completion of a fast running lethality code called KWEval, Kinetic Warhead Evaluation, developed for the Navy SM-3 program under contract to the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).

Miltec has developed other lethality analysis codes and evaluation tools under government contracts. Products developed under contract to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization include 1) STEM, Source Term Estimation Methodology, a code that generates source terms from a ballistic missile impact; 2) MASS, Miss and Aim-point Sensitivity Simulation, a code that assist development of baseline system requirements for miss distance and aim-point selection based upon weapon system lethality for KEW weapon systems; and 3) DAVE, Database Analysis and Visualization Environment, and interactive relational database and data integration tool being used to support fragment impact testing. Additional products developed under contract to NSWCDD include 1) LAMP, Lethality Analysis Methodology Plotter, an interactive plotting tool that displays lethality code prediction results; and 2) TarT, Target Toolkit, a semi-automated procedural-based tool used to create target/threat computer models for fast-running lethality codes.