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The United States Army has identified the need for high power efficiency transmitter systems. The goals of the U.S. Army can be achieved through the use of switched mode amplifiers used as Class D or E. The objective of this proposed Phase I SBIR program is to design a pair of complementary FET's (N-Channel and P-Channel) capable of switching at frequencies sufficient to provide switch mode ampl ...

This proposal is to develop a diagnostic system that detects degradation of drive components prior to failure. The specific application to the ALTAIR Antenna is critical to maintaining a national asset in readiness for near and deep space missions. The design approach will take advantage of the close proximity to the original antenna designers, and former on-site systems engineers for the ALTAIR ...

Performance of robotic systems would be enhanced through artificial intelligent fusion of the automatic target recognition (ATR) results (and associated underlying features ) of either a single platform or multiple platforms viewing the target/object from different position, i.e., multi-look fusion. Such fusion would be particularly relevant for partially obscured and/or background blended target ...

Disability is the nation's largest public health issue; with over 35 million Americans experiencing disability and annual disability-related costs exceeding $170 billion. Planning for the efficient and equitable allocations of state and local rehabilitation services has generally been inadequate, however. Geographic information systems (GIS) approaches have the potential to dramatically improve ...

A laser induced breakdown spectrometer (LIBS) system will be designed, calibrated, and delivered under the phase I research. This detector will be optimized for lead detection in building paints and firing range soils. The phase I system will use a commercial, portable Nd:YAG laser for plasma formation. A subsequent commercial system will be developed for phase II and will include multielemental ...

Supply of potable water is essential for the individual soldier in hostile, marine, or wilderness environments. Chemical warfare agents and natural infectious bacteria can render water unusable unless filtered and/or disinfected, and high salinity cannot be tolerated by humans. Mainstream proposes to test the feasibility of ultrafiltration (UF)/nanofiltration (NF) surfactant-enhanced ion rejecti ...

Energy conservation in an electric vehicle requires high efficient operation of components using light weight materials. This technology will be applied t the mobile military APU units. The generator and compressor designs are smaller, lighter and highly efficient using a different technology. A new compressor currently designed by a member of our Team uses a highly efficient anti-friction orbital ...

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A system is proposed which can provide coarse/passive and fine/active imaging in a staring mode at 95 GHz (W-Band) for the purpose of defeating multipath effects in ground-to-ground fire-control systems. The system makes use of efficient focal-plane scanning and modern digital baseband processing, having the potential for a wide range of target recognition, tracking, guidance, and other intelligen ...

An innovative approach is proposed to improve management decision-making in the development and support of mission-critical software systems. This effort will define a management metrics decision system that will support both metrics process setup and in-process decision support. Innovative aspects include using an open tool architecture to facilitate environment integration, rule-based technolo ...