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Electronic Warfare (EW) has proliferated, along with the maturity of adversarial weapons. Concurrently, the military has come to rely on electrically enabled offensive, defensive, and support systems. This presents a clear need for a new paradigm in addressing EW mitigation and hardening through Circumvention and Recovery (C&R). The primary objective of this Phase II, therefore, is to build a more ...

ABSTRACT: The Level of Impregnation (LOI) of resin in prepregged composite materials is critical to the quality and performance of finished Out-Of-Autoclave (OOA) composites.The widespread transition to OOA composites is reliant upon consistent material manufacture, which is jeopardized by the lack of a test methodology capable of accurately measuring LOI.Test techniques currently in practice are ...

ABSTRACT:In Phase II Distributed Communication Systems (DCS) proposes to improve the operational abilities of first in warfighters to transmit real-time weather data for ingestion into the AFW enterprise and receive up-to-date weather products, both text based and graphical, from AF-WEBs in support of their mission from anywhere on earth. DCS plans to accomplish this by building off of the success ...

ABSTRACT: A novel hybrid acoustic emission (AE) and guided wave (GW) inspection approach for the inspection of radar towers is presented in this proposal. Many radar sites are over 50 years old and it is important to keep them in good repair, as they are a critical intelligence component that provides advanced aircraft notification. It is proposed to supplement the passive AE inspection method wit ...

ABSTRACT:We propose the development of broadband high operating temperature two-color focal plane arrays (FPAs) that will allow simultaneous detection of radiation in the visible and infrared bands from the same target points. The first band will cover the 400 nm to 4 micron wavelength range and will be based on double layer planar heterostructures technology. The backside illuminated array will h ...

ABSTRACT: Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) proposes to develop a novel, and significantly lower cost approach for manufacturing lightweight thermal management solution to address the high heat flux and temperature of next generation GaN power amplifiers or phased arrays. Current power amplifiers are limited in output by the heat flux and temperature capabilities of the overall thermal man ...

Two major waste streams, thermoplastics and used automotive tires, need a technological and economic method to decrease their entry into our environment. Both have long life-cycles as waste, causing many deleterious environmental problems. The Phase I, II , and Ill goal is to divert plastic and tire waste and its pollution away from landfills and the environment into transformational new technolog ...

Suspended ceiling tiles are widely used in commercial and residential construction because they offer flexibility and easy access to utilities. Most of the available tiles absorb water, resulting in sagging, staining, and mold/mildew growth. They also contain potentially hazardous chemicals and release airborne fibers when broken or cut. Existing tiles are not durable, requiring frequent replaceme ...

ABSTRACT: The result of this project will be integration of an advanced high-fidelity hydrocode into the MS Windows-based DoDEndgame Framework infrastructure through use of a flexible, open-source application integration infrastructure developed and supported by Illinois Rocstar. To perform the work, Illinois Rocstar will develop an extension to the MEVA application that allows for general couping ...

This study addresses a parametric analysis of technology alternatives resulting in the design of a wideband dual polarized HF antenna covering 3 to 30 MHz supporting transmit and receive functions with an instantaneous bandwidth of 10 MHz. A benchmark will be developed of conventional large size antennas to determine the best possible performance unconstrained by size. These candidates will then b ...