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Phase II Proposal for preliminary design of an Unmanned Sea Loiter Aircraft (USLA).

With the goal of providing aviators a new generation night vision system with a wide field of view (WFOV) and with sensitivity over a wide range of nighttime conditions, a new class of high resolution, low power, short wavelength infrared (SWIR) detector will be designed and demonstrated. The innovation makes possible a new generation of high performance, low profile, ejection capable, helmet moun ...

Touchstone Research Laboratory and Aspen Aerogels have teamed to create a new carbon composite material comprised of Touchstone’s carbon foam (CFOAM) and carbon aerogel. Phase I demonstrated the feasibility of manufacturing on a laboratory scale and included foam and aerogel compositional optimization, as well as preliminary thermal and mechanical characterization. The results were that carbon ...

The current approach to providing thermal protection to aero-vehicles is to use a parasitic thermal protection system (TPS) that protects the primary structure while transferring the aerodynamic loads to the same primary structure. This approach increases the complexity of the vehicle system that, in turn, complicates fabrication and inspection of the structure. In addition, this approach also i ...

The higher Mach number flight capability required in future missile systems has necessitated the development of advanced materials capable of surviving the increased thermal loads expected in these systems. Although previous research has indicated that titanium matrix composites (TMCs) are a potential solution to this problem, the high cost of these materials has severely hindered their considerat ...

The integration of NIRS measures with EEG could be a significant advance in rapid detection and continuous monitoring of cerebral dysfunction following traumatic brain injury. We have developed a dense array EEG system that can be applied rapidly in the field environment. We have developed a prototype NIRS brain imaging system that can be integrated with the EEG system, in both sparse and dense ar ...

D.N. American proposes the development of a Human Error Modeling tool for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS) which will simulate human performance on complex systems in order to provide system designers with information on what aspects of their design are likely to lead to human error. Furthermore, HEMETS will provide recommendations to the designers so they can improve their design in order to elimi ...

A phase II SBIR program encompassing the development of advanced multiplexers for custom coarse WDM communication systems based on holographic Bragg reflectors (HBRs), a building block component of integrated holographics, is proposed. Integrated holographics harnesses the nanofabrication capability of state-of-the-art DUV photolithographic tools and planar waveguides to provide high performance ...

In this effort, a new class of optoelectronic detector will be developed for the express purpose of sensitizing high-performance silicon CMOS receiver circuits to near infrared (NIR) signals in the 1310 and 1550 nm bands commonly used for optical communications. Our photosensitive polymer nanocomposite will consist of PbS colloidal quantum dots densely packed in a conjugated polymer matrix. The qu ...

This proposal addresses WET Labs design and development efforts of a compact, low power, autonomous, scalable, bottom-up profiling system termed the Miniaturized Autonomous Moored Profiler (Mini AMP). The Mini AMP’s novel design includes a robust suite of physical, biological and optical sensors, an integrated package control system, a power system, and a telemetry unit as a part of a modular, s ...