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The proposed effort, in response to Office of Naval Research STTR Topic N03-T020, is to develop a prototype affordable visible/near-infrared missile warning sensor (AMWS), which uses conventional silicon based CCD technology as a detector. This sensor would ultimately form part of a Directed Infrared Counter-Measure (DIRCM) system designed to protect naval aircraft from anti-aircraft missiles. T ...

The current practice in the maintenance of aviation batteries is to replace batteries on a scheduled maintenance cycle. It is estimated that some batteries have a useful life of six years yet batteries are replaced after they have been in service for three years or less, resulting in unnecessary expense. Conversely, batteries that have reduced capacity and need replacing are overlooked, posing a t ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase II project continues the successful work initiated under our Phase 1 program to develop a novel low temperature processing technology for the fabrication of low resistance ohmic source-drain contacts for high performance, nanowire transistors on low-temperature plastic substrates. In Phase I, we developed the instrument design, setup and init ...

In this program, we propose to develop the CRES technology to meet the EMI rejection, insertion loss, and size requirements of the application. The first focus is to development of wide-band power diverters (a key component). The second focus is to develop and effective algorithm to control the cancellation. The third focus is the development a breadboard demonstration of a full 3-channel CRES. In ...

Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI) and its research partner, University of Florida (UF), propose to update and implement theory, algorithms, and software for fusion of multi-sensor (e.g., RADAR and EO) datastreams, to provide enhanced acquisition, tracking, and discrimination of threat objects in a cluttered multi-target environment. We propose to enhance/extend our successful Phase-I technology to s ...

New internal actuation technologies and integrated design of guidance-control systems for kinetic kill vehicles are proposed. These actuation technologies can be used for KKV trajectory and attitude control in any speed range, both within and outside the atmosphere. Since the actuators are contained entirely within the airframe geometric envelope, and because no mass expulsion is involved, they of ...

Semi-volatile organic compounds are a significant, but poorly characterized fraction of atmosphere aerosols. Many are formed through photochemical processing of more volatile organics, and once oxidized tend to form less volatile compounds that condense into the particulate phase. Knowledge at the molecular level of their abundance and vapor-particle phase partitioning is needed to understand th ...

SPMs are a strategically vital tool for nanotechnology research constituting a $250 Mill/yr industry while enabling several multi-Billion downstream industries like Materials and Pharmaceuticals. However, their single biggest drawback is their inability to obtain any chemical information on their samples. As our letters of support reiterate, this impacts DOE researchers in the Genome to Life; Or ...

This research leads to improved and enhanced versions of the Cal Poly P-Pod and Ecliptic RocketPod cubesat-class (picosat) carrier/deployment systems designed for frequent, recurring use onboard EELV-class U.S. launch vehicles starting in 2008. Enhancements include more robust environmental qualification levels, standardized interfaces with the host platform, leveraging of available host platform ...

76144-Heavy-ion fusion requires a high current and high brightness beam, but its specifications cannot be met with the highest intensity ion sources available. Current amplification, through longitudinal compression of the beam, will be needed to achieve these specifications, and ion beam drift compression has been identified as the preferred method. However, this concept has not been demonstrat ...