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Optical power beaming systems have the potential to revolutionize energy supply for airborne military platforms, allowing networks of unmanned aircraft to operate aloft indefinitely. To ensure safe and efficient optical power transfer, receiving optics must be designed to provide rigorous photon containment. Stray reflections and scattered light must be minimized in order to ensure safety for pers ...

DARPA is interested in technologies which enable safe optical power beaming systems.  High-efficiency wireless power transmission by a directed optical beam will greatly enhance military capabilities by enabling a multi-node wireless energy web.  We are developing high efficiency semiconductor lasers at 1550 nm which are directly suitable for power beaming.  Our laser array technology is at an ...

Food irradiation technology has attracted more attention in the past decade given that it can provide a sustainable solution on how to address pathogen contamination in food. X-ray irradiation has several advantages compared to other irradiation technologies including superior penetrating quality compared to electron beams, and considerably larger dose rate compared to gamma rays. However, the low ...

Conventional “subtractive” machining is a huge industry with critical implications for USAF and DOD. The vast majority of safety-critical parts are manufactured using subtractive machining because it produces excellent dimensional tolerance and a high-qua

Accurate, high-performance 3D vision frameworks will play a key role in the development of advanced manufacturing. These systems will employ the use of powerful data feature extractors such as deep neural networks (DNNs). However, in terms of size, latenc

Military missions often have a deep hierarchical structure due to the need for extensive support for the top-level goal.  A typical strike mission in an Air Tasking Order (ATO) has the top-level goal to degrade specific targets.  To achieve that goal, pla

K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra-high-power spacecraft capable of delivering over 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconna

The proposed solution integrates AtomBeam's Neural Compaction software technology into the (RDUCE) program and SOSA platform, enabling efficient connectivity and data transmission among platforms and systems. AtomBeam's unique Compaction technology utiliz

GridRaster leverages the advancements in cloud technologies, immersive interfaces, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and processing speeds, to build an open-architecture high-performance, high-precision and scalable XR platform. GridRaster’s breakthrough XR pl

The rise of low-cost, private space launch services and the proliferation of low cost micro-satellites has created new opportunity and changes for the spaceflight community. While these developments have opened the door to new kinds of missions and applic