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The Navy desires to equip P-3s and similar future aircraft with UAVs that can be launched from a standard A-size sonobouy tube and return real-time information including video images from remote locations for further analysis and action. Lite Machines has developed an electric-powered rotary-wing UAV having a cylindrical body and a counter-rotating, coaxial, rotor system, that fits within these ti ...

The goal of this program is to develop and qualify a custom-designed alloy for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), which experiences severe corrosive and abrasive environments, including seawater and sand. In particular, the spindles on this vehicle are mission critical components for operation on land and sea. The spindles are highly loaded and galvanically ...

Development of compact ruggedized high-quality high-speed tunable laser-diode transmitter packaging is critical to WDM network in both military and commercial applications. The objective of this research project is to bring the basic low-profile & large operating temperature range packaging technology developed into a very compact tunable laser module that can withstand military avionic environmen ...

In this SBIR project we aim to exploit a new invention in quantum cryptography to secure free-space optical links and networks. Unlike the techniques based on single-photon states that are limited to low bit rates and short distances, our approach is based on coherent states emitted by ordinary lasers, permitting scaling to high speeds and deployment over realistic distances. We have already demon ...

Within the Air Force there are a wide range of operational systems that manipulate air traffic management data and handle tasks such as flight planning, air space scheduling, aircraft control, weather prediction, mission forecasting, etc. Each of these systems maintains independent databases – important ATM information is not shared across systems. The FUSION system assembles multi-source ATM ...

The path towards high-power Hall thruster development lies in the fundamental understanding and modification of electron tranport processes within the plasma discharge channel. This development effort will build on the successes in phase I and focus on analytical and computational modeling leading to a high-power Hall thruster configuration design.

In this work, we will demonstrate military specification compatible 1.8 - 1.85 µm InP-based diode pump laser arrays with a power output exceeding 10 W, the critical milestone necessary to enabling system insertion. These sources can help in the critical development of a variety of military and home security applications, including optical pumping sources for 3-5 µm lasers, chemical sensing, las ...

Application of a unique separator material, ceramic fiber separator (CFS), developed by Inventek, can serve as the foundation for advanced thermal batteries to triple EKV battery capacity at high power. A new rapid method of thin-cell production would use the fiber separator CFS as a carrier for tapecast cell assembly and reduce unit cost by 25%. In this method, a tunnel kiln process can produce ...

The objective of this Phase II project is to demonstrate the engineering feasibility of a high power, unitized, regenerative fuel cell that uses sodium borohydride (NaBH4) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) directly at the fuel cell (FC) electrodes. Such a Regenerative Fuel Cell (RFC) is ideally suited for the demanding Unconventional Space Power requirements set forth by DARPA. The engineering prototyp ...

Rapid response to homeland security related incidents requires dynamic integration of military and civilian medical information systems. Currently, this integration process has been difficult to accomplish due to various factors: diversity of medical information systems, lack of universal data standards, plethora of data formats (text,images,video, audio), and the semantic mismatch between the dif ...