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This effort will demonstrate the optimal sensor architecture for the Apache that provides improved target-to-background contrast using innovative polarimetric sensors coupled with image processing algorithms. As the battlefield becomes more complex and the operator is required to perform an increasing number of challenging tasks, sensor technologies that complement and enhance operational requirem ...

The DoD requires an increase in performance and density of solid propellants for use on boost, strategic and tactical missile systems. Attaining ingredients with higher energy and density while simultaneously maintaining satisfactory physical properties is extremely challenging. Focused efforts are needed to identify, synthesize, and characterize new ingredient oxidizers that can be produced comme ...

The Objective of this proposal is to design, develop, and demonstrate an advanced, evolutionary, open-architecture code library to enable weapons developers to easily adapt interfaces to enable legacy fire control systems to interact with novel sensors or data sources through a system-on-module (SOM). This software will also enhance effects by providing a framework to optimize data fusion to the f ...

The U.S. Army is seeking a long life energy solution that delivers high energy density, good reliability, long shelf-life, and improved safety for monitoring the health of electronic components in remote and sometime harsh locations. Current batteries can only deliver limited lifetime (perhaps 5 years) upon discharge, while our proposed technology has the ability to deliver more energy for extende ...

The Sky Polarization Azimuth Sensing System (SkyPASS) exploits naturally occurring sky polarization to measure absolute heading and offers significant performance enhancement over current azimuth sensing systems such as digital compasses or ring laser gyros. The SkyPASS system is a passive optical sensor that can operate at 10s of Hz, has no warm-up or calibration time, does not require leveling, ...

Historically, the porosity associated with ceramic matrix composite structures has been viewed as a detriment for many missile applications. The standard practice is to perform several treatment/retreatment processes to reduce the porosity to an acceptable level while increasing the strength of the structure. The processing methods inherent to the production of many composite materials may provide ...

During the current programs we have developed a novel biological-based power generating system with bio-inspired design leading to high energy density (run time) from multiple readily available fuels (sugars, alcohols) and using renewable biocatalysts (enzymes).The electron transfer efficiency of the enzyme-catalyzed reactions at electrodes has been significantly increased, thereby establishing a ...

Amastan, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, proposes to produce high temperature phase stable and CMAS resistant coatings of lanthanum magnesium hexaaluminate (LMHA) material as a suitable substitute to YSZ top coat for thermal barrier coating (TBC) applications. In phase I feasibility effort, Amastan demonstrated high temperature (1600 C) phase stable LMHA coatings that are phas ...

The overall goal of this proposed program (through Phase III) is to develop an innovative Portable Fuel Quality Analyzer (PFQA) capable of providing a final fuel quality check of jet and diesel fuels at the point-of-use as either a stand-alone analyzer or

S-RAM Dynamics will design and build a mobile refrigeration system, using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the refrigerant, for the Army Multi-Temperature Refrigerated Container System (MTRCS). This state-of-the-art system will use the recently developed S-RAM energy recovery compressor(ERC) to deliver significant efficiency savings for Army refrigerated assets. The S-RAM CO2 ERC is scalable and can delive ...