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The scope of this work includes design, analysis, manufacturing, integration, and test of the GO1 hypersonic flight test platform. The Contractor shall complete design of the system, qualify the system for flight through ground testing, and validate the f

Crisis decision-making is difficult and error-prone because it involves time-urgency, physical and emotional stress, chaotic conditions, and poor data availability/quality. This SBIR project will investigate, develop, and deploy a web-based software system (called PolARES) that supports key decisions for crisis management and battlefield applications. This system will produce a revolutionary impr ...

The proposed work extends studies conducted during Phase I to a demonstration of weapons typing assessment with high confidence using information from the BMD System at the Missile Defense Integrated Operation Center (MDIOC) and additional data from non-M

The purpose of this project is to advance the state of the art in audio transcription, text analytics and machine translation technologies and solutions for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Navy, and Marine Corps operations. This project has four major tasks: first, audio transcription to convert Chinese audio into English text; second, maritime Chinese-English dictionaries; third, a ...

Sophisticated radar antennas such as an active electronically scanned aperture (AESA) are used to support acquisition and tracking in multiple modes over wide bandwidths, monopulse tracking, and Sense and Avoid RADAR (SAA) for UAV applications. These multi-function radar systems are small but require a considerable amount of power, which in turn produces a significant amount of heat. For these sys ...

A critical need for the military is the development and fielding of robust distributed wireless sensor networks (WSN’s) that aid the U.S. forces to accurately detect, localize and identify commonly occurring battlefield sources. A versatile, scalable and easy to use distributed WSN development platform for high fidelity data acquisition and testing is needed that allows the developers to test o ...

A one year Phase II Basic Program and a one year Option Program are proposed, aimed at revolutionary advancement of the current technology used in the high-energy chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL). The Phase II Basic effort directly relates to the Airborne Laser (ABL), and aims to determine the operational pressure limits for the laser system in its current configuration. The work will rely on ...

The ability to accurately machine nickel-based alloys and other hard materials is critical to the manufacture of Army weapons such as mortar tubes, and electrochemical machining (ECM) is often the best, or only, option. The primary drawback of ECM is designing ECM tools. Tool design is extremely complex because the shape of the machined workpiece depends on tool shape, electrolyte and material ele ...

An uncooled Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) imaging system will be developed for insertion in a hypersonic gun launch interceptor. The 640x512 10um pitch SWIR imaging system (detection from 0.7-1.7um) will provide unique capabilities for the kill vehicle. Functionality of the imager includes the ability to track the target with and without targeting lasers using a very high frame rate imager with region ...

Current deployable solar array systems are based on designs that have been in existence for more than 30 years.  In general, these heritage designs can be divided into two classes: 1) hinged-panel arrays, which are mechanically simple but mass inefficient, and 2) tensioned-membrane arrays, which are mechanically complex but mass efficient.  Arguably, no deployable solar array designs exist that ...