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Active imaging systems are used to for imaging in degraded visual environments like that found in marine fog and other environments with a high level of attenuation and scattering from obscurants like fog, rain, smoke, and dust.These systems are still limited in range and resolution. SA Photonics is taking advantage of multiple image enhancement techniques, like wavelength tunability, pulse contro ...

Path planning and mission planning are two core steps to effectively exploit the capabilities of multi-level cooperative control of multiple aerial platforms. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and its subcontractor, Prof. Jose B. Cruz of the Ohio State University, propose to develop innovative algorithms and software tools that are built on a hierarchical game-theoretic framewor ...

Filamentation of ultra-short laser pulse propagation in non-linear media offers significant potentials allowing to address numerous problems in military and commercial sectors. However, practical implementation of this requires an ability to control the USLP at its propagation through inhomogeneous media, like turbulent atmosphere. On the basis of our approach for combating turbulence effects on p ...

Energy-on-target is maximized in optics and ocean acoustics by transmitting a time-reversed (spectral phase conjugated) version of received data at each array element or subarray. This process uses an unknown propagation channel as its own space-time matched filter to implement a RAKE receiver at the target location. (A RAKE receiver passes data through a filter that is matched to the channel im ...

The Department of the Navy has a need for the development of an additive manufacturing (AM) process for key vacuum electronic device components to meet on-demand, flexible, and affordable manufacturing requirements. The developed manufacturing method has a potential to reduce cost of vacuum electronics by as much as 70% as well as simplify and hence expedite production process of these devices by ...

The Department of the Navy has a need for the development of an additive manufacturing (AM) process for key vacuum electronic device components to meet on-demand, flexible, and affordable manufacturing requirements. The goal of this Phase II effort is to develop and validate Electron Beam Melting (EBM) additive manufacturing (AM) technology for the production of vacuum electronic devices meeting t ...

A multi-channel time series imaging system is being designed, constructed and evaluated for providing unique spectral polarimetric imaging data for ONR programs that are developing advanced algorithms for littoral warfare ISR. Twelve channels of data are collected simultaneously from an aircraft in a temporal imaging mode. The design is based on the success of the Airborne Remote Optical Spotlig ...

The objective of the Phase II program is to design, build and test a prototype ISR Sensor Package through proof-of-concept demonstrations, to support littoral-zone warfare mission products; detection and characterization of low-contrast targets; and provide accurate geo-location of the products. The ISC team's ISR concept is based upon a set of requirements to completely satisfy this objective. ...

Existing battery based energy storage systems are not suited for short duration, high cycle life, deep discharge, and small required size applications. Ultra/super capacitors (UC) are limited by some of the same issues as batteries, i.e. cycle life limitations, disposal, and continue to remain at a much higher cost than batteries. Flywheels can cost effectively fill the short duration, high cycl ...

Naval communications environments, both undersea and through-the-air, are typically more demanding than most applications, offering many exciting challenges and creative opportunities for the communication system designer. Challenges in undersea acoustic, optical, and radio-frequency channels include dispersion, multipath, severe signal attenuation, noise, limited bandwidth, and many other detrim ...