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Laboratory investigations have suggested that acoustically or vibrationally inducing motion in buried targets can aid in improving target detectability through a characteristic response related to differential target motion. This gain is realized by adding an additional degree of freedom, modulation due to motion in the GPR return signal, to use as a discriminating feature. The AKELA team is propo ...

Tanner Research will leverage our ongoing microelectronics experiences with surface effects Physics to implement innovative lens compatible fluidic transport techniques. This active method will use a well characterized technique to move liquid droplets off the lens ideally before noticeable fogging even begins. Other goals in the Phase I will be to achieve the following metrics in preventing any ...

From the 19th century until today, we have seen an almost tenfold increase in the ocular injury rate on the battlefield. Compounding this problem is that there are very few eye doctors deployed in field hospitals. With ocular injuries accounting for up to 32% of injuries in disaster scenarios, limited access to eye doctors is not just a military problem. A portable eye examination system is needed ...

To address the Armys need for collecting tactical Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) under austere conditions, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the new Adaptive Plenoptic for Passive Ranging and Imaging SurvEillance (APPRISE) system. The proposed 3D/4D imaging system is based upon POC-developed adaptive optic technologies and unique applied algorithms for proce ...

Rotorcraft experience inherently complex aerodynamic interactions between the rotors, fuselage, and empennage. To overcome insufficient speed, range, and payloads of existing rotorcraft, Future Vertical Lift (FVL) design considers configurations that may have multiple main rotors, ducted fans, auxiliary wings, etc. Such FVL configurations introduce additional aerodynamic lifting devices that make ...

With the proliferation of technology related to Unmanned Aircraft design and manufacturing, there has arisen a new threat from those who would do the U.S. and our allies harm from the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Spectranetix proposes to develop a low-cost, relatively low SWaP, advanced Counter-UAS targeting system to enhance Army hard-kill and soft-kill countermeasure systems.

The goal of the proposed Phase II research is to perfect the graphene dispersion and mixing techniques and demonstrate that the graphene enhanced double base propellant (GEP) is as insensitive as the base propellant. In Phase I, limited experimental evaluation.

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, speci ...

Toyon Research Corporation proposes to develop an open architecture programming and teaching interface for autonomous robotic system control in whole-body manipulation, in collaboration with the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). The proposed architecture will consist of software capable of monitoring and analyzing a user"s behavior for a robotic system to mimic and enabling feedba ...

An advanced sensor for proximal detection of contaminants on surfaces is proposed based on hyperspectral differential polarization reflection of LWIR radiation from an active IR source, blackbody lamp or wavelength agile laser and an advanced unmixing algorithm whose feasibility was demonstrated by field test data in the Phase I program. The high signal-to-noise ratios provided by the active irrad ...