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ABSTRACT:A chip carrier for high power density electronics made from low CTE materials and embedded with an oscillating heat pipe will be applied to a real world satellite electronics device to transform high heat flux (e.g. 100-300W/cm2) at the device package to a lower heat flux at the heat sink areas - and do so with minimal thermal resistance. Deliverables at conclusion of two-year effort will ...

ABSTRACT: This document presents Optical Sciences Corporation's SBIR technology transition proposal to complete development of an advanced Cryogenic-Vacuum Compatible Infrared Scene Projector (CVC IRSP) for Wide Field-of-View (WFOV) space sensor testing and to integrate the CVC IRSP into a government owned space simulation chamber. The CVC IRSP will be capable of projecting complex scenes w ...

The vast majority of injuries in recent military conflicts have been inflicted by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) causing brain, extremities and genital-urinary injuries. Advanced computational models of IED blast physics and human body injury biomech

ABSTRACT:Nonvolatile memory (NVM) technologies are a critical component of modern satellites.These NVM chipsets perform tasks ranging from storing mission-critical boot code to large multi-gigabyte mission data recorders.This requirement for high-density NVM has shifted focus on to commercial CMOS FLASH.FLASH technologies are capable of high-density devices, compared to resistive or phase-change t ...

ABSTRACT:Innovative Technology Applications Company, LLC proposes the development of an analytical tool that predicts jet noise and engine performance for current and future generations of supersonic two- and three-stream engines. The goal is to provide robust and reliable noise predictions in minutes that can be used for design optimization. The physics-based approach will be capable of addressin ...

ABSTRACT:A cooperative small business and university research and development program is proposed to begin development of a robust, non-contacting, digital image correlation based, full-field strain measurement system for high temperature applications. The Phase I studies will demonstrate that a robust high temperature digital image correlation system (HTDICS) can be developed that is capable of a ...

ABSTRACT:In this work, an ephemeral security technique for keying military GPS receivers will be developed. This work will not modify the existing GPS cryptographic structure, but rather develop an overlay for providing keying information to a receiver in a manner that makes all security information ephemeral, eliminating the permanent storage of CPI within the receiver. Existing and emerging batt ...

ABSTRACT:There is a need for a moderate resolution, high speed, radiation hardened (RH) Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) to support new satellite developments. Scientic proposes to develop a high speed, radiation-hardened DAC to be produced on-shore in a trusted semiconductor foundry to meet the data conversion needs of the US Air Force (AF) and other military and aerospace system developers. To ...

ABSTRACT:The proposed research effort will develop passive Oscillating Heat Pipe (OHP) structural heat spreaders to attach to small, ultra-high heat flux devices (e.g., GaN power amplifiers) and dissipate their heat loads uniformly across the spreaders' relatively large heat sinking surfaces - and do so with minimal thermal resistance. The research team will design, model, fabricate, test, and ana ...

ABSTRACT:As weapon velocities increase significantly in the coming years, driven by reduced response times and by the strength of materials in target structures, the already-significant shock loads on explosive payloads and fuze components will be greatly exacerbated. Given that the integrity of the payload and fuze components is critical to proper weapon functioning, it is imperative that solutio ...