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Ziva proposes to develop and demonstrate a novel and powerful approach called Military Distributed Array Reach-back using Time Reversal (m-DART) which enables extension of communication range for both TX and RX in a scaled down A2/AD scenario on a small size, weight, and power (SWaP) distributed unmanned aerial system (UAS). The overall objective of m-DART Phase II/Option is to develop and demonst ...

A wireless implant capable of communication with large populations of neurons will be developed for manufacturing and production in this project. The product will have effective wireless data rates significantly higher than state of the art wireless neural interfaces. This will improve wireless communication with neurons, and is a promising step towards transformative treatments: sight, sound, sme ...

Currently, the lack of a proven Sense and Avoid (SAA) technology is the largest technological obstacle in the way of wide scale Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) deployment in the National Airspace Systems (NAS). Group 2-3 UAS, due to their small size, slow cruise speeds and climb rates; exacerbate the probability of their involvement in a Mid Air Collision (MAC). Therefore, there exists a need for ...

To deal with the increasingly complex, dynamic and unpredictable operational environments of the 21st century, unmanned and autonomous system, sensor, and vehicle technologies are being expanded and improved. For example, unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems provide an expanding set of capabilities, such as intelligence, detection, security, targeting, and strike, while reducing the risk to ...

Under Phase I the liquefaction rate, refrigerant details, and mass flow rates of a small liquid nitrogen generator manufactured by our Company were measured under different conditions. Using scaling laws derived earlier for designing smaller and smaller microminiature refrigerators we have reversed the process and applied these to the design of a liquefier to meet the much higher desired productio ...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS) and Stanford University (SU) intend to demonstrate a 150 meter long, 12-sensor depth insensitive pressure sensor array. The overall goal of this SBIR project is to develop an innovative, passive, low-power array of acoustic pressure and vector sensors that can operate effectively across all ocean depths to detect, classify, and localize low-level ...

Pacific Microchip Corp. proposes to design, produce and commercialize an 8-bit 56GS/s analog to digital converter (ADC) which includes a novel calibration system based on the calculation of the difference in squared output voltage of sub-ADCs in the digi...

We propose to mature LG-X glider technology by manufacturing full-scaled prototypes and characterizing them in land-based flight-testing by using commercial aircraft to drop the gliders. Validated components such as the landing parachute, folding wing mechanism, and autopilot control system will undergo integrated flight-testing. Logistic Gliders will provide a considerable cost share to support ...

Toyon Research Corporation proposes to develop a mobile cloud-computing (MCC) software application that will enable significant performance benefits for constrained forward-deployed mobile platforms. The proposed program will demonstrate, within the first year, the basic framework of the MCC architecture using small, lightweight, low-power, commercially available components. The MCC platform will ...

Trexs Night Vision Head Worn Display system (NV-HWD) will provide digital, multi-spectral, robust all-condition viewing capability for ground soldiers without harming natural see-through vision.The proposed system is a compact, lightweight, heads-up, broad-band night vision display system with dual function as a daytime display.Fused imagery from low-light CMOS and LWIR sensors is displayed via th ...