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The Ka-/Q-band satellite systems offer potential for transportable and mobile communications through the effective use of the wide bandwidths available while requiring that adequate linearity performance be maintained. In environments where size and power conservation is of high importance, power consumption and heat dissipation in the power amplifier (PA) must be minimized. However, it is widely ...

Because the data products generated by modern imaging ladar systems are inherently large in information content, there is currently a severe bottleneck in the communications of these products to end users, particularly when full-waveform recovery is desired. During the Phase I effort, Bridger demonstrated that their 3D imaging system architecture was ideally suited for seamless integration of high ...

This work proposes ruggedized, microporous membrane-based sensors for detection of multiple inorganic and organic analytes in the environment based on a modification of voltammetric techniques. It leverages ongoing work at this firm for the Army in voltammetric electrochemical sensors for field sensing of CW agents based on unique membranes having microchip Controllers with Android cellphone contr ...

This DoD ARO SBIR 2012 Phase II Project is aimed at the development of a micro-optical ultra-sensitive, room temperature detector for the far infrared (FIR) and terahertz (THz) bands of electromagnetic radiation. The sensor relies on monitoring optical resonances commonly known as Whispering Gallery Modes (WGM) of dielectric micro cavities. In Phase I, an operational model for this WGM radiation ...

Accurate flow calculation is crucial to the development and support of air platforms, and CFD has been successful at predicting aerodynamic performance for a variety of flows. The accuracy of CFD is governed by the quality of the surface mesh, and much work has been undertaken to automatically generate surface grids from CAD. Unfortunately, quality is quantified in terms of conformance to the su ...

Resodyn Corporation proposes to develop a novel cold chain system with a Lifetime Warranty (20+ years) for the vacuum container.The container is composed of a passive energy efficient system for transporting blood and pharmaceuticals in hostile environments for up to three days.Capacity is four unit blood transfusion bags.Energy efficiency is possible by the novel shape and super insulating qualit ...

In this STTR program, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) and partners will develop hardware and process technology to deposit uniform films of piezoelectric PbZrxTi1-xO3, on substrates with complex 3-dimensional topography. Piezoelectric PbZrxTi1-xO3 films are a critical technology for advanced Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS), to provide low power actuation in nanoscale devices. ...

In response to the A14-016 Ultra-low power "system-on-a-chip" integrated circuit for fieldable neurobiological sensing, MaXentric proposes the NeuroAudit system. The NeuroAudit system is based around an ultra-low power SoC designed to capture and wirelessly transmit EEG signals. The system uses advanced design techniques to enable the processing of a large number of high fidelity channels while ma ...

Based on continuing advances in digital processing technologies, the US Army is seeking a scalable all-digital radar (ADR) platform with improved performance and flexibility compared to current, more traditional analog radar systems. The US Army is looking for a technology that can digitize and synthesize at a T/R element level and also requires a backend processing architecture that can process t ...

Princeton Satellite Systems proposes an ultra-precise attitude and orbit determination system to provide exceptional ground location accuracy for Earth imaging. Improving the location accuracy from 60 m to less than 10 m requires minimization of all sources of errors in the pointing knowledge, pointing accuracy, and orbit knowledge. The attitude determination system uses nonlinear attitude filters ...