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The Department of Homeland Security's charter has a fundamental requirement to collaborate with other government agencies. Secure collaboration on this scale requires strong identity management which can "vouch for" DHS personnel working with other agencies, and makes it possible to provide DHS resources to individuals in other agencies whose work requires it. We propose the development of a reu ...

Q-DOT PROPOSES A VERY HIGH-SPEED (10 - 20 GS/S) MEDIUM-RESOLUTION (6-BIT) ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC) USING AN ADVANCED HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (HBT) PROCESS. INNOVATIVE CIRCUIT DESIGN, COMBINED WITH A VERY FAST HBT PROCESS, WILL BE USED TO DESIGN A PRACTICAL WIDE BANDWIDTH CONVERTER. THE DESIGN WILL ACCOUNT FOR THE REDUCED COMPLEXITY REQUIRED BY AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BY USING ANA ...

Johnson Research and Development Co., Inc. (JRD) proposes development of a key component for an innovative, highly efficient heat engine that can operate as a versatile power generator and heat pump for either cooling or heating. The Johnson thermo-electrochemical converter (JTEC) is an innovative all solid state heat engine that operates on the Ericsson cycle (Carnot equivalent) and directly con ...

Lattice Block Materials, or LBM for short, are a class of materials comprised of an open structure of ligaments arranged in a regular truss like structure that is three dimensional. A basic unit cell is comprised of a square based pyramid skeleton (just the corners, called nodes, and the edges, called ligaments). These cells are connected in all directions to form a larger lattice like structure ...

High altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft encounter thin atmosphere, low temperatures, long missions, and long periods of storage, all within strict weight limitations. Power sources are correspondingly unconventional. DARPA has identified metal hydrides as preferred energy storage materials for this application. The proposed SBIR Phase I program addresses development of metal hydride materials ...

COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HAS RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED THAT A 2 UM COHERENT LASER RADAR (CLR) OPERATING AT 1 MJ/PULSE WITH A 16 CM BEAM DIAMETER, IS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING HARD TARGET RANGE AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS TO AT LEAST 50 KM. SCALING THESE RESULTS TO50 UJ/PULSE AND A 5 CM TELESCOPE INDICATE THAT RANGE RESOLVED VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS TO RANGES OF SEVERAL MK SHOULD BE FEASIBLE. WE BELIEVETHAT ...

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Develop software visualization & modeling tool to facilitate the design and implementation of experiments pertaining to cold and ultracold atoms. The tool, LiveAtom, will allow users to layout conductors, calculate or approximate the resultant fields and atomic interactions, and provide a three-dimensional visualization of the results.

Wide-area networks are essential to productivity in commercial enterprises and military organizations. Reliability is difficult to achieve because wide-area networks, such as the Internet, are built from many autonomously configured component networks. Today there exists a large gap between the intended design of a network and the implementation of that design. This is because complex network poli ...

The need to detect and track small aerial targets is identified. An approach to use a unique passive radar front-end sensor is described, which provides the initial detection capability. The data from the sensor is used to cue a high-speed, highly accurate pointing and tracking system with a Coude path capability. In Phase I, the system design will be completed. In Phase II, build-out and system t ...