Award Data

Development of hypersonic aircraft and weapon systems has become a critical focus for the Department of Defense to maintain global strike and projection of force capabilities. Despite decades of research, traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are either incapable of adequately predicting complex features in hypersonic flows or too expensive to be of practical use for vehicle desig ...

In unmanned underwater vehicles and underwater sensor networks underwater ranging is becoming of increasing importance. Laser-based ranging techniques offer the potential of high resolution and high speed. However, the challenging underwater environments could limit the performance of the optical ranging system. Specifically, (a) dynamic scattering particles distorts the optical beam in both time ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop a high-temperature antenna array for hypersonic projectiles. SI2’s proposed array will be conformal to the geometry of the projectile.  It will be constructed using high temperature conductors and dielectrics.  SI2 offers its unique combination of RF design expertise, manufacturing expertise, and high-temperature RF testing infrastructure.  SI2 ...

To attain the goal of the Topic which is to develop a digital design tool for PPE that allows for rapid exploration of the entire design space, Innovision team has proposed and been developing an innovative solution—Integrated Digital Engineering Environment for PPE development (IDEEP), which consists of six modules: (a) Initial design, which creates a set of design instances in the design space ...

The survivability, structural integrity, and control authority of hypersonic vehicles depend on the reliability of the material system used in nose cones, aeroshell, control surfaces, thermal protection system, and exhaust system. Carbon-carbon ceramic matrix composites (C/C CMCs) offer several advantages for such high-temperature applications including higher strength, higher thermal shock resist ...

Breault Research is proud to provide our Navy customer with the technology and tools to design, produce and field a true Twenty First Century warhead. Breault’s Adaptive Multi-Mission Ordnance (AMMO) incorporates state-of-the-art lethality materials and flexible configurations to optimize warhead effectiveness in a smaller form factor. Breault’s unique design and production processes provide t ...

Tactical Navy HTS magnet applications require efficient and compact cryocoolers to maintain cryogenic temperatures for the magnet while also accommodating the physical and environmental constraints within the HTS magnet system. Currently available commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) cryocoolers fall short on achieving the cryogenic cooling requirements that are needed for future tactical HTS magnets. ...

TransWave Photonics proposes to develop 1024 x 1024 light emitting diode (LED) arrays capable to produce >15% wall-plug efficiency based on successful demonstration of single Purcell LED devices developed in Phase I. We will optimize the LED band structure, pixel geometry, and fabrication steps of Purcell LEDs and implement them to achieve the target specifications. Then, 1024x1024 addressable Pur ...

The Forensic Memory System (FMS) addresses a critical need for wideband sensor systems. Wideband digitizers produce copious data samples that need considerable interface bandwidth to transport and distribute real-time data to heterogeneous compute resources performing signal analysis. The initial signal analysis component, signal detection for example, will indicate a signal of interest (SOI) is p ...

The goal of this work is to demonstrate and validate a 3D acoustic propagation model for use in constrained environments such as harbors. The 3D model will be used to model system performance for 1) passive sonar, 2) active sonar, and 3) acoustic communications networks. This latter application is of primary importance in this Phase II Extended proposal. To accomplish these goals are sequence of f ...