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ABSTRACT:The reduction of aerodynamic/hydrodynamic noise caused by violent turbulence is of strategic importance to many military systems. These include modern fighter jets, unmanned weapons with sensitive electronics, and surface and underwater vessels. For all these systems, aerodynamic or hydrodynamic noise can produce unacceptable levels of operational loads or acoustic vibrations, or be detri ...

This proposal is for a Phase II program for further development and prototyping of a Development and Run-time Environment for Aviation Mission-tasking and Mission-management (DREAMM) for manned-unmanned teams.Development and modification of the tightly integrated avionics in a combat aircraft is highly technical and currently requires skilled engineers to effect even the most minor changes in syst ...

In response to DHS SBIR Topic H-SB013.1-004 we propose to investigate the development of a next-generation, tiered, inexpensive, light-weight, low-power, high-performance GPS emitter detection and localization system. The system will provide high-accuracy (high-sensitivity), real-time or near-real-time estimates of position, velocity, transmit frequency, and transmit power level of multiple, movin ...

Toyon has teamed with two utilities to survey the use of civilian GPS receivers in the energy and communication sectors, and to determine their vulnerabilities to intentional interference, including narrowband and wideband jamming, spoofers, repeaters, and RF-based 'software attacks.' As part of the survey, the characteristics and weaknesses of the deployed civilian receivers will be determined an ...

Perhaps because it is the world's longest undefended border, smuggling is endemic across the our northern frontier with Canada. Since a 5,525 mile border cannot be effectively patrolled on foot, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must rely on technology to detect and track smugglers. Radio tomographic imaging (RTI) is an emerging device-free passive (DfP) localization technology that could ...

Corvid Technologies is pleased to offer this SBIR Phase I proposal. In the proposed effort, we will develop a fast-running, predictive methodology for the aerothermal demise of the debris generated during a Ballistic Missile Defense intercept event. This model will be informed by existing high-fidelity tools for material response and ablation, as well as new and existing engineering models for a ...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking a highly reliable, compact, low-power and low-cost transducer to detect rapid changes in concentration of hypergolic fuels and oxidizers. To meet this MDA need, InnoSense LLC (ISL) will develop a chemical transducer-based hypergolic leak detector using proprietary polymer nanomaterials and electronic design. Building on the well established collabor ...

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) proposes to adapt and advance its recently developed intrinsically safe hypergolic leak detection technique, based on its well established optical sensing techniques, for developing a modular liquid hypergolic propulsion (LHP) leak detection sensor. We have identified highly stable and sensitive colorimetric indicators for monomethylhydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen ox ...

Eotron"s advanced diode laser packaging technology allows construction of an efficient and compact line-narrowed diode stack combined with Volume Brag Grading (VBG) for pumping a Diode Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL). A single laser diode bar with a 20pm spectral line-width demonstrated more than 30W of cw output power at 780nm pumping a rubidium vapor laser. However, current diode laser stacks have ...

We propose a radical new approach for to the design, fabrication, and packaging of a narrow-band semiconductor diode laser array pump source for a DPAL high energy laser system. The concept is scalable to kW class pump laser powers.