Award Data

The extended short wavelength infrared (e-SWIR) wavelength band is in a performance gap for infrared detectors. At both shorter and longer wavelengths high performance detector technologies exist: SWIR InGaAs detectors (1.7 m cutoff), and MWIR (3-5 m cutoff) detectors such as InAs-based and GaSb-based Unipolar Barriers, MCT, and InSb. This program proposes development of high performance e-SWIR de ...

This proposal presents a non-invasive device to reduce, and control, intracranial pressure in the event of a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The device is compact, rugged, light, and easily transported by medics or civilian first responders in the field.

Traditional manufacturing methods for producing warheads, propellants, and pyrotechnic systems are timely and costly. Additive manufacturing (AM) approaches offer one path of alternative manufacturing technologies. Among various technologies, powder bed fusion (PBF) is one promising approach. Hewlett Packards Multi-Jet Fusion printers utilize a unique PBF process that presents a desirable solution ...

A need exists to improve the ballistic response of armor for Littoral Combat Ships. Simply increasing armor thickness is unacceptable because the associated increase in weight and space would reduce vessel performance speed and range. Surface treatment techniques for current armor materials such as steel, aluminum and ceramic may improve armor performance significantly without an associated weight ...

Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. (EHT) is collaborating with researchers at the Pulsed Power and Power Electronics Center at Texas Tech University (TTU) to develop a high-power microwave switch that is capable of very fast rise times, adjustable pulse width, and high pulse repetition frequency (PRF). EHT has developed solid-state pulsed power systems that has the potential to improve the performanc ...

To address the need for 1-m^2, scaled, cost-effective hogel optics, scalable inkjet-print additive manufacturing of three-dimensional freeform gradient-index nanocomposite hogel optics will be demonstrated. Using inkjet-print manufacturing, a series of prototype diffraction-limited achromatic gradient-index lensletssized from 100 microns to 3 mm, and configured in gradient-index hogel arrays up to ...

The Air Force has identified a need for a display agnostic common streaming model for 3D data. Third Dimension Technologies (TDT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have formed a consortium to define a 3D streaming model based on open standards for Display Agnostic 3D Streaming (DA3DS). Two factors are driving this need. The first is the dramatic increase in the collection, storage and trans ...

SciGenesis will apply its FR-technology to nylon-only and nylon/cotton (50/50) blended yarns to demonstrate the feasibility of this technological platform at the individual yarn stage (i.e. pre-woven). The unique FR chemistry that SciGenesis has developed encompasses char promoting agents, heat reflective particles, Lewis-acid catalysts and a laundering durable binding system. Implementing this ...

S-RAM Dynamics (S-RAM) proposes to design, fabricate, test, and commercialize a high-performance axial piston transcritical CO2 energy recovery compressor (ERC) to support next-generation aircraft thermal management systems for the U.S. Air Force and commercial applications. The S-RAM ERC will be developed and commercialized with the support of the Rolls-Royce Thermal Management System team and Pu ...

To continue to provide our military a nighttime advantage, near-photon-counting passive-image sensors are required that detect very low signal levels, yet have the dynamic range to handle the large intrascene dynamic range of modern urban combat, nap-of-t