AF04-155 proposes a reduction in the maturation time between the identification of a novel material and its entry into service, in part through improved experimental characterization and evaluation. The development of a monitoring system capable of acquiring and processing full-field data from the… More

The AF04-101 topic solicitation states that the objective of this SBIR is to develop image and video compression techniques that will significantly increase the transmission capability of current data links by providing greater compression ratios without additional degradation relative to current… More

The AF04-101 topic solicitation states that the objective of this SBIR is to develop image and video compression techniques that will significantly increase the transmission capability of current data links by providing greater compression ratios without additional degradation relative to current… More

79377S The Department of Energy (DOE) requires the development of mesh-communication-optimized cluster interconnects, scalable to thousands of nodes at modest cost, to perform theoretical calculations of Lattice Quantum Chromo Dynamics (LQCD). Supercomputer architectures has been the solution of… More

79373S Today, scientific endeavors are increasingly being pursued by large-scale collaborative research teams that jointly investigate areas, such as, computational climate modeling, nano-scale science (both experimental and computational), and high-energy physics. The shared use of… More

Recent progress in the development of high energy laser pulse sources and advancements in detector array technology has enabled single LADAR systems that can generate range and image data based on the target reflection from a single pulse. Accuracy of the system depends on precise temporal data to… More

Recent progress in the development of high energy laser pulse sources and advancements in detector array technology has enabled single LADAR systems that can generate range and image data based on the target reflection from a single pulse. Accuracy of the system depends on precise temporal data to… More

Emerging, large-scale distributed-science applications increasingly depend on ultra-high-speed lambda-based networks to securely deliver end-to-end throughputs of 10-100 gigabits per second. However, in order to achieve high levels of end-to-end performance, it will be necessary to match the… More

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project investigates the design of a data-center functionality off-load engine (DCFOE) based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based accelerator to off load common data center services. This DCFOE engine is intended to interact with both… More

Gigapixel cameras can generate petabits of data every hour, requiring vast bandwidth and storage in order to store the entire video sequence for offline forensic analysis. Realtime compression techniques will be developed to greatly reduce the storage requirements. Key requirements of the… More

Many DOE applications are becoming more data intensive, and petascale computing systems are being developed to respond to this need. As these larger computing machines are developed, it is crucial that their file systems do not become the primary bottleneck. In order to meet the demand of such… More

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to develop a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based co-processing unit that will enable more rapid searches of protein and nucleic acid data by allowing, among other functions, one core of a multicore system to be used… More

RNET Technologies, Inc., (RNET), a small business located in Dayton, OH, is responding to the STTR in collaboration with Prof. Bradley Duncan and Prof. Joe Haus of the University of Dayton (UD). The solicitation states that the objective of this STTR is to develop sub-aperture based EO imaging… More

One of the needs of NASA is the development of avionic systems and components that have the capability to operate in extreme radiation and temperature environments found in deep space, as well as the lunar and Martian surfaces. As a result, spacecraft electronics will be required to be hardened… More

The solicitation indicates that the objective is to develop methods to achieve unparalleled levels of integration for silicon-based RF electronics in support of emerging DoD-critical applications. Example DoD applications include wafer-scale phase array radars, highly integrated warfare systems, or… More

Recently, the DoD has become interested in technologies that can maximize processing energy efficiency and power savings, while maintaining reasonable performance. It particular, sub-threshold digital circuit operation is of the up-most interest for ultra-low power (ULP) military processing… More

PETSc (Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific) is a software library used in a wide range of science applications, many of which were developed and/or used by the DOE. The stagnation of single core processor performance, and the resulting shift to multicore nodes, requires that the codes in… More

Many scientists rely on transport protocols such as GridFTP to transfer very large files, ranging from 10s of Megabytes to Terabytes. These users increasingly use high-bandwidth, high-latency optical networks. The user experience would be improved by the integration of GMPLS scheduling into… More

Office of Science R&D activities are conducted in an open but secure science environment. In this environment, the security systems deployed to protect data flows from cyber attacks must be carefully designed and deployed, so as to not hinder scientific discoveries or impede network traffic flows… More

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) seeks technical investigations related to the development and application of advanced electronic materials, processes, and devices to meet its need for radiation hardened, high performance electronics for critical space and missile applications. With the advent of… More

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are emerging as attractive alternatives to traditional HDDs due to there reduced power consumption and potential for increased performance. SSDs have the potential to improve the performance of both Checkpoint Restart (CPR) and the Metadata Server (MDS) for high performance… More

NASA has been tasked to develop new and advanced capabilities to support both future manned and robotic missions to the lunar and Martian surfaces. It is the purpose of this program to develop advanced avionics, software, and information technologies for exploration missions. In particular, NASA… More

NASA is interested in the development of advanced instruments and instrument components for planetary science missions. Specifically, an area of importance in relation to in situ sensors and sensor systems is instrument deployment on a variety of space platforms, which include orbiters, flyby… More

Affordable satellite communications support for tomorrow's warfighter is of utmost importance. As a result, the payloads for military communication satellite are likely to grow in size, weight, and complexity with greater levels of power compensation. Therefore, the Air Force is interested in the… More

The objective of his topic is to develop an optimized SLS-based Infrared FPA for high temperature operation with considerations for lower cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWAP). Infrared imaging systems in use today come at a high cost, require large amounts of space, are heavy, and consume large… More

Energy consumption is quickly becoming one of the primary bottlenecks of compute clusters and supercomputers. The DOE is a primary developer and consumer of these power hungry supercomputers, however smaller cluster machines are also widely used through other government agencies and industries. Yet,… More

Many scientists rely on transport protocols such as GridFTP to transfer very large

Our vision for this NASA proposal is to develop a rad-hard and ultra low power (ULP) reconfigurable FPGA that will have

Energy consumption is quickly becoming one of the primary bottlenecks of compute clusters and supercomputers. The DOE is a primary developer and consumer of these power hungry supercomputers, however smaller cluster machines are also widely used through other government agencies and industries. Yet,… More

RNET Technologies and L3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) are responding to the Air Force SBIR topic"AF103-144: Fault Tolerant Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) Detector". It is well recognized that operational optical sensor systems are susceptible to unfriendly laser sources that… More

RNET Technologies and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Ball) in Colorado are responding to this SBIR topic"AF103-188: Readouts for Energetic, High-Speed Event Sensing". We are collaborating with Ball because they have tremendous experience in the detection of energetic events and… More

The objective of this topic is to develop an optimized SLS-based Infrared FPA for high temperature operation with considerations for lower cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWAP). Infrared imaging systems in use today come at a high cost, require large amounts of space, are heavy, and consume large… More

ABSTRACT: RNET and The Ohio State University propose to use algorithmic modifications and multi-level parallelization techniques and tools to improve the scalability of the CFD/CSD codes relevant to the DoD/AF (e.g., CREATE/Kestrel). The linear system solver is expected to be a primary… More

RNET has demonstrated the feasibility of developing an innovative radiation hardened (RH) and ultra low power (ULP) field programmable gate array (FPGA), called the RH/ULP FPGA. The design utilizes an advanced SOI process technology.It is the vision of RNET to develop a family of radiation hardened… More

Numerical simulation of full-scale catalytic converters is a powerful tool for the fundamental understand- ing of their behavior but requires very expensive high performance computing resources and takes days of simulation time. Currently, due to lack of better alternatives, the knowledge gained… More

This SBIR requires the development of an innovative dual speed ROIC (DSROIC) architecture, mated to a detector array within the band of interest and with suitable response speed. According to the solicitation, this effort will establish a DSROIC concept capable of performing conventional staring… More

ABSTRACT: RNET Technologies will develop a high-throughput multi-ported SSD drive to enable the usage of the proposed fast download SSD in existing data systems, while enabling ultra-fast post mission data downloading. This will allow existing SATA SSD RAID systems to transfer data to a storage… More

RNET and Purdue will develop an ultra-low power carriage life monitoring sensor for external stores. The system will use a minimal number of sensors (biaxial linear accelerometers and biaxial gyroscopes) and the power consumption will be optimized by incorporating innovative time and frequency… More

ABSTRACT: Tactical and reconnaissance platforms rely on high performance, multifunctional optical sensor systems. At the heart of many of these optical sensor systems are mid-wave infrared (MWIR) focal plane arrays (FPA) for their ability to provide high-resolution images regardless of the… More