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Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

Hypersonic weapons are one of the main priorities of the Department of Defense (DoD) activities since China and Russia have such capabilities (e.g. the DF-ZF, designated by Pentagon as the WU-14, is a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle that has been operational by China since 2019).  Due to the importance of these adversarial threats, the Navy, Army, and Air Force have programs for developing hy ...

The US Navy is searching for a cost effective and novel solution for launchable mini-glider sensor platforms which can be of three standard size form factors. The Great Lakes Sound & Vibration, Inc. (GLSV) proposed glider will have the ability to be launched from the deck of various surface vessels and be able to survive a 48-hour service life in up to sea state 6 (SS 6) conditions. The GLSV glide ...

Our goal for this Navy SBIR project is to develop a TRL-7 prototype of the BRG with excellent long-term bias stability and shock and vibration insensitivity that can operate in a military temperature range (-50–80 °C) and optionally can operate at very high temperature (200 °C) (i.e. bias drift < 0.01 deg/hr, angle random walk < 0.005 deg/sqrt(hr), and scale factor stability < 100 ppm).  We ...

Composite materials have become ubiquitous over the past two decades with greater use in naval structures due to the high specific strength, stiffness, and toughness offered with respect to other engineering materials. While fiber reinforced polymers have found wide use in commercial applications, currently used materials are costly and require extended cure times which greatly increases manufactu ...

SeaLandAire (SLA) will build on the work done in the Phase I effort to address the Navy’s need for a strengthened, full-duplex communications datalink between the surface unit of a sonobuoy and its suspended payload, as described in Navy SBIR Topic N221-023. SLA, along with our partner AFFOA, will develop, build and test prototype tethers.  We will design a fiber optic based tether which will a ...

The Aggregated Data Evaluation & Prediction Tool is a data analyst software that processes aggregated Navy data streams and enables predictive analysis and experimentation through ML modeling.

Analysis of Social Media Intelligence (SOCINT) is a growing priority within the Department of Defense (DoD) in support of information operations (IO). While there have been many programs to develop social media analytics, less attention has been put to developing post-analytic tools that incorporate SOCINT into intelligence analyst sensemaking and report generation workflows. This leaves analysts ...

This effort will extend the RL-ICE capability for low-shot object detection to operate with zero real data within the MWIR band (zero-shot learning). Our goal is to 1.) mature our software, 2.) maximize the performance benefit of synthetic data in training an object detector and, 3.) assess the trade-space of real vs synthetic data by comparing performance to a detector trained on fully real data. ...

In this project, Arktonics proposes to develop monolithically integrated high-performance (Si)GeSn lasers by using the novel aspect ratio trapping (ART) growth technology. The proposed transformative laser architecture is expected to fundamentally address the long-standing challenges of the missing high-performance light emitter to complete the whole suite of Si-photonics to enable many new applic ...