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Active Signal Technologies, in collaboration with Novacap and Alfred University, will advance the development of two bismuth sodium titanate (NBT) ceramic materials with very promising dielectric properties across the temperature range -55°C to 300°C. The work will include enhanced formulation variants and improved processing techniques to optimize for permittivity, loss, breakdown voltage and ...

The objective of this Phase II SBIR effort is to develop and demonstrate a low cost, lightweight, two independent simultaneous transmit beam antenna for use in SATCOM systems like the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) downlink. The current MILSATCOM system supports one downlink antenna beam in the frequency band 20.2-21.2 GHz. The goal of TSAT is to transform communications ...

This scope of this Phase II proposal is to develop a space flight prototype Doppler Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (DASH) spectrometer for the measurement of upper atmospheric winds.  A space flight prototype instrument will be built and tested to show DASH can successfully measure simulated Doppler winds in an environment similar to the environment it would be operating in on orbit.  This Phase ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory Air Vehicles Directorate needs to be able to rapidly develop hypersonic vehicle concepts and to do so with as little risk as possible. A new technology called Rapid Prototyping will assist the Air Force in reducing risk in choosing the best path for fielding hypersonic vehicle systems. This technology will allow the rapid testing of many concepts, thus adding conc ...

Technologies Engineering Inc (TEI) has developed a test control suite of software applications for the US Army. This application suite has equipped current users with a means of efficiently and effectively planning, scheduling, verifying, monitoring, and controlling test resources (to include verification of software applications); collecting and logging execution data; and after-action reporting ...

An innovative data collection and analysis approach is proposed to enable body mount magnetometers for space application. In order to achieve high accurate magnetic field measurement in space, the magnetometer has to be located in a âmagnetically cleanâ place, where the magnetic field from spacecraft is negligible. Usually, the magnetometers are placed on deployable booms, so that the field sens ...

Measured radar data outputs behave differently depending upon the collection system. This makes comparison of competing hardware systems difficult. This research will develop a generic radar model that will incorporate representative linear and nonlinear components and determine the effect of these components on the output signal. This model will enable the radar acquisition community to evaluate ...

This SBIR work plan consists of a research effort to explore and implement a three part innovation to achieve a wideband DDS-based programmable frequency synthesizer (PFS) with enhanced phase-noise and spurious free dynamic range (SFDR). The proposal summarizes the competitive advantages of various techniques for achieving PFS. This understanding provides the motivation for three innovations. Inn ...

The flame stability in typical augmenters is largely determined by vitiated air composition and high preheat temperature of the incoming flow. Presence of significant quantities of CO2 and H2O in the vitiated air will affect the oxidation characteristics of jet fuels by increasing the third-body collision efficiencies of initiation and recombination reactions. Traditionally, kinetic models are va ...

Augmentor stability is a major issue for the design of reliable engines over a broad range of operating conditions.  The stability of the combustion process in augmentors is a result of the interaction between the unsteady fluid mechanics around the flameholder, finite-rate chemistry, and the physics of fuel spray formation, transport, and evaporation.  In order to accurately model spray combust ...