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Optical Physics Company (OPC) is proposing to investigate a novel interferometric star tracker design with end-of-life measurement error of 0.13 arcseconds at a spacecraft slew rate of 2 deg/sec. The interferometer design is inherently rad-hard and athermal, easily capable of operating in the orbital temperature range (-65 to 65 degrees C) and radiation dose (300 krad). Furthermore the full star ...

It is widely believed that the general problem of horizontal integration among US Government agencies has not been adequately solved to date. Many barriers exist that have historically resisted a viable solution, including the “stove pipe” architectures of various agencies, the lack of overarching and compatible security policies, new needs for wider dissemination of information extending beyo ...

Stottler Henke proposes InfoAssist, an integrated, unobtrusive and networked approach to document classification and dissemination. This system will enable document authors and reviewers to make use of the release and publication history of all content in a particular document when assigning security classifications. Authors will benefit from integrated tracking of a document’s classification ...

Rapid detection and identification of chemical warfare nerve agents (CWNAs) are critical to the screening and subsequent treatment of exposed warfighters. Inhibition of cholinesterase activity is insufficient as a marker of exposure to CWNAs, in that it can give misleading results and does not distinguish CWNAs from commonly employed pesticides. This proposal presents a revolutionary field-porta ...

The feasibility of a high flexibility, corrosion resistant primer for aircraft will be established by (1) screening unpigmented coatings based on impact flexibility, low temperature flexibility, tensile strength, elongation-to-break, and corrosion resistance (salt spray and filiform)and (2) testing non-chrome corrosion inhibitors effect on these same properties in a range of 10-85% of the critical ...

We propose to investigate methods for building METAD, a system for monitoring trends in order to identify entities that are suspicious or deviate from past or normal behavior. Our system will leverage our existing EntityBase technology, which provides the means to consolidate references to entities collected from disparate data sources. The system will first use trend analysis to find entities t ...

All deployed shelters are candidates for enemy targeting and a broad range of air and ground threats are expected. The weapons include a mixture of small arms, iron bombs, mortar and /or artillery fire, precision-guided munitions and ground based and portable surface-to-surface missiles. During Phase 1, Sunrez focused on hybrid systems as the best opportunity to meet protection, cost, and weight ...

Exposure to light at critical phases of the circadian cycle is the main stimulus that phase shifts and entrains circadian rhythms. Whereas previous work has concluded that exposure of humans to bright light for an hour or more at the right phase of the circadian cycle produces significant phase shifts of circadian rhythms, and can speed recovery from jet-lag thus facilitating restorative sleep. ...

The proposed SBIR Phase I projects aims to develop high-fill-factor micromirror arrays to provide efficient and rapid beam steering for pointing and tracking, imaging, and designation as well as for HEL weapons.

Uncooled focal plane array (FPA) technology, based on a-Si:H micro-bolometer thermal detectors, has evolved such that high performance can be achieved with small pixel pitch, large array format and fast thermal time constant. This improved FPA sensor technology allows development of miniaturized infrared video cameras with high sensitivity and spatial resolution to support a wide range of missions ...