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Building upon the successful Phase I demonstration of the feasibility of the Blended Hybrid Laminate (BHL) technology, the Phase II effort will seek to demonstrate and validate the technology at a relevant scale. Phase II confirmation of high cryo-pressure cycle life and high structural performance will open the door to the application of the technology to future high performance rockets, such as ...

GHKN Engineering, LLC teamed with Aerojet Recmond, proposes to build and test a CDRE with a number of fuels and oxidizers. Included in the proposal test program is thrust measurement, which together with mass flow measurement will be used to evalute CDRE performance, (and efficiency), of detonation combustion in these devices. The engine planned for testing was designed by GHKN under the Phase I p ...

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, modern forces and especially foot mounted soldiers are increasingly tasked with conducting operations in either complex urban or remote cavernous environments where GPS signals are severely corrupted and/or unusable. The ability to track and navigate in unfamiliar subsurface environments such as canyons, subterranean caves, mines or other manmade subsu ...

DARPA SBIR solicitation SB082-011 seeks the design and development of high power density electric motors for hybrid electric air platforms, indicating a need for a prototype motor rated at 7 hp, weight less than 1.4 lbs, efficiency greater than 95% and operating at speeds less than 10,000 revolutions per minute (RPM), to be used for a ducted fan of less than 12 inches in diameter with a targeted s ...

This program proposes to demonstrate an ultra-low power design methodology and circuits for digital logic employing advanced dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) circuits operating in sub-threshold to super-threshold voltage regimes. The power supply voltages of logic block partitions will be independently set by on-chip voltage controllers based on the data p ...

The objective is to develop an ultra-high performance RF fiber-optic link using LiNbO3 device with improved efficiency and optical filtering techniques. The main goal is to achieve a RF fiber-optic link with optimized SFDR, link gain, and low noise figure simultaneously. The effort includes the development of higher efficiency LiNbO3 modulator and analyzing optical filtering techniques for applica ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) would benefit from a persistent mobile power generating capability to support global deployments, remote basing, and disaster relief. Eliminating the need for fuel transport over long distance, a towable floating wind turbine could provide a persistent power source. The most robust configuration for this concept is an unmoored free-floating design. Such a mobile fre ...

We aim to build a prototype device for optical arbitrary waveform generation and use it for demonstrations of performance. The device is based on coherent accumulation and interference of spectrally shaped waveforms using low bandwidth control electronics (less than 1 GHz) to achieve wideband optical arbitrary waveform generation with time apertures of up to 50 us, complete control of optical phas ...

The proposed research "Deep UUV Deployed Surveillance System" will identify the requirements and formulate a conceptual design for a new wide area underwater surveillance that exploits the unique attributes of deep submergence environments to detect and track atmospheric, seismic and acoustic observations. The effort will address the noise, propagation and geophysical properties of acoustic liste ...

The objective is to develop an ultra-high performance optical frequency-domain modulation device that is truly frequency agile and capable of operation from DC to mm-wave frequencies for the next generation optical signal generation and signal transmission system for dual-use in defense/RF-analog and commercial/digital “Ultra-high-bit-rate” fiber-optic communication systems.