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There is a widespread need for beam steering all throughout the DoD. Both the Space Force and Air Force require advanced pointing for imaging and targeting, laser communications, directed energy, and energy transmission systems. Existing pointing systems often account for a significant allocation of Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C). Positional systems are one of the most resource intensive f ...

Impossible Objects (IO) has created a fundamentally new approach to additive manufacturing (AM) called Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM). CBAM is a superior 3D-printing process, because the material properties of the parts are better, the proc

3Degrees’ TraceAM software is a streamlined platform designed to effectively organize, analyze, and deploy critical technical data packages related to Additive Manufactured parts. It is a secure and customizable interface ideal for use in munitions develo

The proposed project intends to reduce the technical and financial risks associated with a disruptive battery technology so that DoD program executive officers and private investors are inclined to finance the commercialization of the technology. The proj

The United States Space Force (USSF) seeks versatile spacecraft that can perform an array of different types of defense-related missions, such as spacecraft imaging and inspection, rendezvous proximity and docking operations (RPO/RPOD), collision avoidanc

The United States Space Force (USSF) needs innovation in 3D scanning of Resident Space Objects (RSO) to effectively perform active management of orbital debris as well as On Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) and defense-related missions. OSAM missions will require that a “service satellite” operate near a “target satellite” or RSO. Novel sensor fusion modalities coupled ...

Typically, anti-EM warfare protection is done by enclosing all electronics in metal electrical boxes.  However, this strategy is limited in several ways:  Firstly, many electronics boards must fit into tight spaces, where the typical machined-metal boxes either can’t fit or cost significant amounts of money to be manufactured; secondly, many electrical boards can overheat when enclosed in a bo ...

Sivananthan Laboratories (SL) with the University of Iowa as the STTR partner, proposes to develop metasurface-coupled type II superlattice (T2SL) LWIR detectors that are predicted to outperform HgCdTe detectors. We developed in Phase I fundamental understanding of metasurface-coupled T2SLs, likely performance, and issues related to scaling up device structure to form arrays for LWIR imaging. In P ...

To aid in Air Force design and sustainment activities of additively manufactured components, QuesTek Innovations LLC, in collaboration with the University of Utah, will further develop and mature an accurate, efficient, and comprehensive fatigue life mode

The current Phase II project is expanding the CBAM material offerings to include uniaxial carbon-fiber substrates into the CBAM process.  It has already been shown that the strength and stiffness have improved by at least 250-300% (3.5-4x stronger and sti