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In this Phase II SBIR project, we will optimize the design and develop the growth processes and equipment to routinely produce large (through 150mm), high-quality, single-crystal cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) bulk material suitable for the production of CZT substrates for producing larger and highest-performing long-wave infrared (LWIR) detector arrays. We are addressing these issues by i ...

Control Vision, Inc. (CVI) proposes a flight-worthy calibrated visible snapshot hyperspectral sensor prototype for use on an MDA test mission. Approved for Public Release | 23-MDA-11401 (14 Mar 23)

Low level meteorological data over the world’s oceans is hard to collect, due to the cost and difficulty of sensor emplacement. Crewed aircraft are deployed when major weather events arise, but between those major weather events, in-situ data sources are very limited. Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) present a unique opportunity to inexpensively collect meteorological data from remote areas, but ...

MDA is interested in developing single mode high power diode lasers with excellent beam quality and high efficiency and coherently combine them for high power output and use the coherently combined modules to build high power direct diode laser (HPDDL) systems capable of achieving upwards of 10-100 kW (dependent on the beam combining technique) of high output power while maintaining the beam quali ...

Alphacore (AC) will develop an innovative radiation-hard high-reliability DC-to-DC converter for future Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle and other radiation applications. The Phase II prototype takes a spacecraft’s bus voltage or battery pack voltage (24V up to 34 V) as an input and produces an isolated or a non-isolated output as low as 900 mV, with a fully programmable output voltage. The solution ...

Secure Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem effort builds upon the TSS-DTE cloud platform to enhance the current data management and repository solution to address business challenges and security issues associated with data transfer and storage of information within a collaborative environment. By optimizing the TSS data management and repository capabilities, it will alleviate the bus ...

This program will leverage the Intel 16 node on-shore production capability and its increased Total Ionizing Dose hardness by: 1) Developing RHBD mitigation approaches to known susceptibilities to energetic particle exposure to allow for long term design solutions across platforms, 2) Developing U.S. based Intellectual Property (IP) for the RHBD designs which allows for easy modification by variou ...

The Phase II effort will develop a hardware assurance process for development of testing regimes supporting DoD total ironizing dose (TID) Radiation Hardware Assurance (RHA) requirements while being minimally disruptive to commercial practices and facilitate assured and cost-effective utilization of foundries used by the DoD. Phase II will build upon the Trusted Silicon Stratus-Distributed Transit ...

Distributed surface sensing of next generation flight vehicles will enable longer timelines and more accurate flight controls through measurement of surface recession, temperature, and pressure. The environment that the vehicle is required to withstand makes building and testing such a multi-sensory system extremely challenging. Control Vision, Inc. proposes a distributed network of optical sensor ...

RTSync Corp. and WarpIV technologies have each performed research to evolve different and complementary aspects of a Model Level Integrated Simulation Architecture. The RTSync team, employed the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism and the existing RTSync owned Modeling and Simulation environment (MS4 Me) to base the architecture design on a firm system theoretical and computationa ...