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DHS in support of FEMA identifies a need for a sensor system to detect potential survivors buried in rubble piles or confined spaces in the event of a building collapse. In response to the solicitation, MaXentric proposes a radar-based system capable of detecting motion through debris such as respiration and/or heart beats. The system will alert the user of a potential victim's location relative t ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM) along with its team members, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Weber Metals, and Spirit AeroSystems, proposes to develop and demonstrate a coupled framework based on the integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) and machine learning (ML) approach to optimize the quenching process with coupled thermal, metallurgical, and mechani ...

The MaXentric team will develop a high-dynamic-range, high-power-handling, and high-survivability high frequency (HF) transmitter with significant enhancement in harmonic suppression and fast frequency hopping support. Covering a frequency range between 3 to 30 MHz, HF bands provide over-the-horizon communications across thousands of kilometers through skywave propagation as an alternative to sate ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Jinhui Yan at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University, Professor Dianyun Zhang at Composite Manufacturing and Simulation Center at Purdue University (PU), and Professor Yuri Bazilevs at Brown University, proposes to develop an inte ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Hang Yu at Virginia Tech (VT) and Professor Rajiv Mishra at the University of North Texas (UNT), propose to develop a multiphysics based PSPP (process-structure-property-performance) approach and its associated toolkit for tailoring of additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) repair of aluminum components for impr ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. and Professor Jinhui Yan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign propose to develop an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering simulation toolkit for optimal tailoring of gas flow in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and direct energy deposition (DED) to reduce defects (e.g., porosity and spatter) and surface roughness improve quality (e.g., mi ...

We proposed a novel and unique headset based on advanced digital signal processing and other new technologies as the next-generation military headset. The headset with the proposed technologies fulfills all the objectives of this SBIR topic in terms of hearing protection, enhanced situational awareness, clear two-way communication, speech intelligibility, battery life, and costs. The new headset w ...

In response to the Navy’s SBIR solicitation N212-111 “Technology for Transmitting and Receiving Airborne, High-Speed, Wideband, Covert Communications”,  MaXentric proposes LEOPARD (Linear Efficiency Optimized Phased Array with Real-time DPD) to overcome the challenges of efficient, linear amplification for phased arrays.  LEOPARD is designed to support both single carrier and multi-carrier ...

To meet the demands of the N211-086 “N-Polar Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistor in Low-Cost Process Technology for mm-wave Transceiver Applications” program, the MaXentric team proposes the ANTHEM (Amplifier using N-polar T-gate gallium nitride High Electron Mobility transistor), which provides E-band low noise amplifier (LNA) and transmit/receive (T/R) switch using a Nitrog ...

High-data rate communication with undersea objects is desirable at speed and depth, and it has long been recognized that lasers in the blue-green portion of the electromagnetic spectrum are the most viable option for penetration of seawater. In order to optimize signal-to-noise in daylight conditions the optimal wavelengths to work at is one of the Fraunhofer bands in the blue-green where the sola ...