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Based on our success in developing several the world’s first commercial high energy femtosecond fiber laser system and OPA systems, PolarOnyx propose, for the first time, a compact fiber laser pumped high energy mid-wave infrared laser to meet with the requirement of the Army solicitation A17-042. The laser is a hybrid fiber/solid state laser based MOPA incorporating our proprietary technology o ...

Aret Associates and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) propose an interdisciplinary effort to further develop and validate a robust, operational biomonitoring application that can process soil microbiome data to reliably detect episodic and low-level chronic contamination while maintaining low false alarm rate.The Phase II SBIR work will build upon the successful Phase I proof-of-concept demonst ...

Deep Learning for standoff detection of Special Nuclear Material (DLeN) applies the same deep learning techniques that allow computers to beat human performance in image recognition and the game of Go to detecting Special Nuclear Material. Spectral analysis and signal processing can in some cases be augmented by the use of much larger neural nets that conduct much deeper analysis of features of th ...

Program objective is to develop and transition uncooled LWIR FPAs with performance that is approaching cooled LWIR FPAs. In Phase I Nu-Trek developed an integrated uncooled FPA model based on the NVESD document “model2017October”. This model was used to guide the ROIC design process, leading to a ROIC architecture that is fully supportive of NVESD’s objectives. The ROIC architecture is scala ...

Maxentric’s solution provides multi-level security and information flow control with cell level encryption for existing relational databases. At the tactical edge, access to advanced cloud based services such Apache Accumulo may not be possible. The novel database solution allows these types of services to be deployed in any point of the network, but also to be integrated in already existing app ...

To address the Army’s need to automatically detect, identify, and track small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) from moving ground vehicles, using distributed aperture systems (DASs) of IR cameras mounted on the vehicles, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to mature, in Phase II, the new software for Automated Detection, Identification and Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Systems (ADITUAS) based ...

Intelligence products generated from sensors currently deployed on U.S. Army Airborne ISR platforms only utilize data from a single sensor modality. As such these products are limited in both current capability and the ability to extend to new intelligence missions. Toyon Research Corporation proposes to develop and implement advanced sensor fusion algorithms for EO/IR and 3D point cloud data. The ...

To address the Army’s need for a simulation and verification framework for future vertical lift (FVL) aircraft systems, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) developed and demonstrated a preliminary prototype of an Avionics Compositional System of Systems (SoS) Simulation and Modeling Tool Chain (ASSIST) in Phase I. ASSIST includes software to parse avionics specifications; automatically generate mi ...

To address the U.S. Army need for a compact, low-cost, solid-state Lidar system, in Phase II, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to further advance the development of the new Reconfigurable All-Solid-State Lidar (RASS) system proven feasible in Phase I. The RASS system is based on innovative use of electro-optical crystals for high-speed nonmechanical beam steering combined with a 1550 nm ...

The team led by Freedom Photonics will develop in this program a novel free-space optical (FSO) link that will enable high-speed interconnects operating at multi-tens of Gbps, which are required for the newer, cryogenically cooled, large format, high definition (HD), fast frame rate, focal plane array (FPA) readout integrated circuits (ROIC). By using free-space optics to collect data from the ROI ...