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Low Altitude Sensing Helmet -(LASH) is to provide for pilot night vision when using small non-military planes to operate using unimproved landing areas around the globe. LASH will use SWIR (Short Wave IR) and LWIR (Long Wave IR) technology sensors to provide improved night vision in specified conditions.

Ibis’ baseline design balances the competing demands of low cost and high performance. The proposed baseline allows for the incorporation of high-rate production technologies which also provide the most functional shapes, minimizing cost and maximizing performance. Ibis’ layout features a streamlined fuselage, high aspect ratio swept wings and non-foldable tail-planes which sum up to ...

Oceanit proposes to design and develop a plug-and-play cyber sand box laboratory with safeguards to allow testing of computer/electronic devices against cyber attacks.

A fundamental challenge in United States Air Force (USAF) intelligence processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) is balancing the need to have human analysts in the PED process against the capacity limitations of human analysts. At the same time, military requirements demand an increase in quality & validity of metadata supporting AFPEO for Battle Management Operations C2 Division intellige ...

Trillium proposes both hardware and software developments in the Phase II effort to further refine geolocation improvements found in Phase I and design a robust gimbal product that has future expandability. Trillium prototyped and flight tested a number of software algorithms in Phase 1 that can be extrapolated to show CAT-1 geolocation accuracy from a range of 2000ft. However, these were accompli ...

Kyma will advance the hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) growth technology for producing high quality crystalline layers of β-Ga2O3, β-(Al,Ga)2O3, and β-(In,Ga)2O3 layers on single crystal β-Ga2O3 substrates. The electrical and structural quality of these materials will be optimized over a range of doping levels and alloy compositions, and their uniformity across the wafer will also be ...

Development of modular solid-state amplifier to support the USAF Direct Drive Testing project.

Oceanit proposes to further develop, optimize and implement the approach from Phase I and demonstrate the process improvements with brush LHE alkaline Zn-Ni plating. Mechanical and environmental properties, as well as process techniques, will be optimized and validated. Component alloy qualification testing and actual part service evaluation testing will be conducted.

The objective of the program is to develop mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays for active and passive military sensing in the 3.0 – 4.6-μm waveband. With manufacturing development to improve material quality, APDs grown from a III-V material system, supported by commercial-scale growth and fabrication infrastructure, can meet the need for low-flux MWIR photon ...

A small, rugged electronics and sensor package will be developed that will be installed within the housing of the Constant Speed Drive (CSD). The Variable Reluctance sensor that is used will monitor the tooth-passing speed of an existing input shaft gear. The micro-controller within the electronics package will count the revolutions and correlate the revolutions with statistics such as input shaft ...