Award Data

Manufacturing of bulk metallic glasses (BMG) requires very rapid cooling and some recent work in laser direct deposition or laser engineered net shaping (LENS) techniques has indicated the possibility of producing net shaped bulk quantities of these materials. To date several groups have had some initial success in forming BMG"s using laser direct deposition suggesting that a careful variation of ...

In recent years the usage of phase arrays in wireless communications has found significantly increased interest, partly due to their ability to enhance system sensitivity and their anti-jamming capabilities. This growth of strong interests in RF phase array antenna systems for DoD applications is evident with the current and future developments of many major RADAR and military communication system ...

The U.S. Navy has initiated a program to develop the next-generation Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) 3.3 system to detect and jam enemy improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The objective of this proposed effort is to develop the manufacturing processes and antenna designs needed to integrate a wideband metamaterial antenna within the ballistic ...

Successful intelligence operations require the ability to anticipate enemy actions in time to prevent or mitigate their impact. These actions are often part of a complex set of events; for example, an assault on a specific place can involve planning and logistics activity as well as the coordinated movement of multiple actors. Complex event processing (CEP) techniques are a promising technology to ...

Under SBIR Topic N101-100 (Multi-Source Imagery and Geopositional Exploitation [MSIGE]), three Phase I performers developed capability concepts to address different aspects of the overall MITS problem set. In Phase 2, we collectively propose to develop a prototype DCGS-N capability for Multi-INT ISR and Targeting Services (MITS) by developing three subsystems and integrating them together under se ...

This effort is to develop techniques to provide improved ship and small boat classification using hybrid synthetic aperture radar inverse synthetic aperture radar (SAR-ISAR) imaging. Both ISAR and SAR exploit target viewing angle diversity to form the cross range dimension of the image. The defined difference is the mechanism of the obtaining that diversity. SAR obtains the azimuth angle diversi ...

Realizing the tremendous demand and commercialization potential of flexible electronic components for modern systems, Omega Optics, Inc., together with the University of Texas at Austin, propose Low-Cost, High Throughput, Roll-to-Roll Ink-Jet Manufacturing of Hybrid Electronic Systems on Flexible Substrates. In the Phase I program, using an ink-jet developed 2-bit 1x4 Phased Array Antenna (PAA) sy ...

This effort will develop innovative techniques to provide target classification of ground moving target indication (GMTI) contacts using simultaneous and continuous streaming SAR imagery of moving targets within the scene. Using modified waveforms but the same data that is used for SAR processing, these techniques use GMTI techniques on intermediate SAR image formation processing to detect the mov ...

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with improved safety, abuse tolerance, reliability, and volumetric and gravimetric energy densities are needed for Navy aircraft including the Joint Strike Fighter, H-1 Light Attack Helicopter, and other aircraft. Despite their high energy densities, current lithium-ion batteries can combust and release highly toxic chemicals under failure mechanisms such as over ...

Kuma Signals proposes to prototype and test the Dillo fractional bit mapping framework investigated in the Phase I work plan. The Dillo system is designed to enable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in high Doppler, low SNR, long delay spread environments with impulsive noise. The framework utilizes an innovative holistic approach to the physical layer design, focusing on cancellat ...