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This proposal addresses the problem of PCSS/laser trigger integration using a single monolithic laser diode array, thus simplifying the entire optical delivery network necessary for efficient operation of PCSSs. The proposal constitutes a logical continuation of Phase I effort where the main focus was on the detailed design of the PCSS/laser diode array (LDA) integrated architecture. In Phase II ...

Thin-film, lightweight, large-area flexible inorganic solar cells have shown promise to meet the militarys remote power needs on the battlefield. However, thin film solar cells normally have inferior conversion efficiencies due to limited absorption of sunlight by the thin active layer. Various approaches have been investigated to improve conversion efficiencies of thin film solar cells. Among the ...

White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) presents this proposal, "Acoustically/Vibrationally Enhanced High Frequency Electromagnetic Detector for Buried Landmines".The primary goal of the proposed effort is to develop a prototype vibrationally-enhanced detection system capable of landmine and IED detection and discrimination with performance greater than conventional GPR sensors.The main sensing compo ...

The team of Boston Fusion Corp., Arizona State University, and Sophia Speira proposes Phase II of Big Open-Source Social Science, BOSSS, a technology that will provide rapid social-science based awareness of the cultural landscape in a given locality. Based on the twin pillars of mathematical social science and big data, BOSSS searches open-source documents, parses the documents using natural lang ...

Physical Science Inc., in cooperation with Colorado State University, proposes the development of a low-cost, longwave infrared (LWIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sensor employing compressive sensing (CS) based on single-pixel architecture. It will provide wide-area Early Warning for chemical vapor plumes. The application of CS to LWIR HSI will eliminate the high-cost focal plane array required by ...

This effort is focused on establishing U.S. Army Corps leadership in preserving navigation access for the war-fighter through the development and implementation of an acoustic-based sensor system to detect, track, and classify endangered species. The implementation of this system will assure critical access to port facilities and navigation channels by Department of Defense (DoD) maritime vessels ...

To achieve the goals of this program improving spectral coverage and output power of monolithic QCL sources - we propose to develop in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory a broadly tunable high power source that is based on Eos proprietary QCL array technology. The current generation of Eos commercially available fully packaged QCLAs (The Matchbox) can be tuned over a wavelength range of u ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is vulnerable to radio-frequency (RF) sources of interference and must be defended through electronic protection (EP) measures such as anti-jam (AJ) and anti-spoof (AS). The Phase I effort investigated antenna, electronic, and algorithmic designs for systems capable of supporting direction-finding (DF) measurements while simultaneously performing anti-jam and an ...

As the warfighter is increasingly using more highly integrated instruments, e.g. a laser rangefinder (LRF) combined with a laser designator and an imager, the need to decrease the size of these components becomes more important.Compact small munition applications of rangefinders particularly place an emphasis on size of the optical front end.In order to make the transceiver more compact, special a ...

Inspecting for and detecting counterfeit, unapproved material substitutions or substandard processed raw material using existing processes is difficult, time consuming and expensive.Ocean Bay, LLC and the Primary Investigator, Karen Bruer, formed a team consisting of Ocean Bay, LLC, Savanah River National Laboratory and Old Dominion University, to apply for DLA15C-001:Detecting Substandard, Noncon ...