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Streamline Automation, LLC., is proposing a development program designed to explore the feasibility of achieving hyperkinetic launch capability with a novel electro-thermal gun concept. The new launch system will be insensitive materials compliant, will employ a highly efficient trigger technology which will simplify system design and operation and enable energy conversion efficiencies two to thre ...

Current refrigerant pumping technology lacks the ability to circulate a liquid-vapor mixture with substantial flow resistance, which impedes development and implementation of two-phase cooling technology. Common pump designs will hydro-lock and mechanically fail instantly or suffer performance loss and eventually fail due to cavitation or worn components. Mainstream"s solution is based on an exi ...

The capability of separating and localizing intermixed sounds in an auditory scene, also known as auditory scene analysis is the ear"s ability to handle the cocktail party effect. There are no useful models that emulate this holy grail of auditory research. Fourier-type theory and computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) techniques do not fully explain how the biological ear is able to"hear ev ...

The demand for renewable energy is motivating R & D efforts toward the development of novel photovoltaic (PV) technology. Efficient and low cost solar cells will have an important role in defense applications particularly powering portable electronic de-vices. Current solar cells based on single crystal silicon are still not at a level to be cost effective when compared to other forms of electrica ...

The proposed innovation is based on a combination of two new technologies developed at the Center for Laser Technology at the Fraunhofer Institute and OptiGrate Corp. and aims to integrate advanced packaging of single emitter laser diodes, spectral and angular narrowing of these diodes by volume Bragg gratings in external resonators, and spectral combining of laser beams by a stack of volume Bragg ...

CFDRC proposes to develop new acoustic metamaterials, more specifically Locally Resonant Sonic Materials (LRSM), to be used in passive Hearing Protection Devices (HPD). LRSM derive their unique properties from resonators contained within each unit cell. Sound attenuation of finite size of LRSM is determined by the interaction of an incident elastic pulse with the resonators within the unit cells. ...

The Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) is currently seeking a small semi-autonomous, very high speed maritime surface munition that is capable of speeds of 100 knots or greater in sea state 4 or above. The system must have the capability to track, differentiate and intercept a target such as a small high-speed watercraft , at an initial range of up to three miles at high speed while ...

Surface plasmons (SPs) have been studied by a wide spectrum of scientists, ranging from physicists, chemists and materials scientists to biologists. Plasmonics represents an opportunity to develop a new class of photonic devices by concentrating and channeling light using subwavelength structures. Such circuits would first convert light into SPs, which would then propagate and be processed by lo ...

This Phase I project deals with the optimization of onsite ferrate synthesis breakthrough technology patented by Ferrate Treatment Technologies, LLC (FTT). Ferrate is a powerful oxidant and disinfectant for treatment of water and wastewater. Ferrate also possesses efficient coagulation properties and enhanced coagulation also can be achieved using ferrate as a pre-oxidant. Ferrate is well known to ...

Users of OneSAF are offered the potential to specify entity behaviors using a flowchart-based composer. However, that tool lacks utility because it is schematic instead of graphical, and does not foster intuitive understanding of temporal relationships. The goal of the proposed project is to simplify the behavior composing process, supplementing the composer architecture with a graphical interfa ...