Low-cost, multi-spectral frequency augmenter for exo-atmospheric ballistic missile targets

A specialty coating, adaptable to existing and future modular MDA target systems and survivable in exo-atmospheric environments, may be achieved by combining contemporary indium tin oxide (ITO) appliqués onto a surface capable of achieving luminescence and hue levels found in adjacent backgrounds. This active coating will exploit known vulnerabilities found in interceptor infrared and visual scanning cameras such that detection, discrimination and identification may be sufficiently altered for specific flight profiles. This active coating will be relatively lightweight, use domestically supplied, polymer-based conductive fillers and operate without interfering with other systems on-board the target system.