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Having previously designed, built and successfully tested a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE), GHKN Engineering proposes to evaluate the feasibility of RDRE technology for boost or upper stage propulsion for launch of small satellites to LEO. RDREs represent an innovative new rocket technology that harnesses the potential of continuous detonation combustion in elegant, compact, annular desi ...

The degree of corrosion for steel wall enclosures, buildings, tanks, and pipes can be inferred by measuring the thickness of the steel .Standard practice is for inspectors to use hand-held ultrasonic instruments that require the application of a couplant for acceptable measurements.This practice is very slow and laborious.For silos, an autonomous wall climbing system is proposed that uses an EMAT ...

In this SBIR Phase I, HYPRES and University of California Riverside will demonstrate the feasibility of low cost THz oscillators for sub-mm wave receivers utilizing high temperature superconducting (HTS) Josephson junctions fabricated using direct-write helium focused ion beam (FIB). This oscillator that can be easily integrated with on-chip detector with noise temperature ultimately limited only ...

NDE corrosion monitoring of steel vessels, tanks, walls, and pipes involve steel thickness measurements, often with hand-held ultrasonic instruments that require the application of a couplant material, that isslow and labor intensive.For this confined space application,IEM proposes a Rapid Corrosion Inspector (RCI) that uses EMAT sensor technology with a build in machine vision camera system to au ...

Small aerial unmanned vehicles (UAVs) are vital for a wide variety of military missions and have experienced increases in operational requirements that have outpaced their capabilities. The propulsion system is a key design constraint in any UAV, and current small gas turbines for these vehicles are limited by the conventional oil-lubricated rolling element bearings used to suspend their high-spee ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of protecting DoD and civilian (ie dual purpose) computer networks and devices from web-borne malware using a remote browsing technique in conjunction with other malware blocking tools. The method coined CyQ complete defense promises a revolutionary new system for preventing nearly all web-borne malware from infecting client computer ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing a decentralized, scalable, rapidly deployable system to treat wastewater streams with high total suspended solids (TSS) content to: 1. Recover a clean, pathogen-free water output that meets potable drinking water standards 2. Recover a dried, pathogen-free solid material, and 3. Optionally recover a concentrated solution ...

This proposed effort leverages MiTis DoD and commercial projects that directly address high performance, long life and low-cost, compliant foil bearing technologies for small gas turbine engines.The overall objective of this effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing compliant foil bearings that are suitable to high-speed, oil-free and gas turbine engines in the 200 lb thrust/200 SHP o ...

To meet the requirements for AF171_041, "Next Generation Satellite Transponder using Low-Cost Adaptive HPA Linearization Technologies," MaXentric proposes a solution that essentially utilizes the existing satellite hardware to implement adaptive bandlimited digital pre-distortion (DPD). The pre-distortion will work within the bandwidths of the existing hardware and does not require any new ADCs/DA ...

Automated and Efficient Extract Transformation and Labeling of Textual Data in a practical, rigid and structured way. 200 million characters per hour deterministic formal machine translation of raw and ambiguous documents. • Common input file types include; pdf, doc, ppt, txt, csv, xls, html, etc. • Structuring is 100% accurate (hash value provable) • Structuring and labeling is ...