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ABSTRACT: Physical infrastructure is faced with a variety of security challenges including malicious insiders, hackers, and threats present within the supply chain. Hardware, sensors, and software residing in these environments may be captured or compromised by an adversary for the purpose of attacking or disrupting operations. Recent examples of attacks on such infrastructure can be found in Fla ...

ABSTRACT: Optical Physics Company (OPC) is proposing to design and prototype a full function beam director suitable for all current phased array control technologies. The proposed beam director significantly simplifies the design of HEL phased arrays by presenting a complete beamlet tracking and steering in an extraordinarily compact design. A full 50 cm diameter beamlet array steerable over a ...

ABSTRACT: We present an innovative data compression technique adapted to the particular characteristics of OPIR sensors and missions. This allows optimal treatment of specific features including noise, non-uniformity, and geometry. We propose a bimodal technique designed to optimally estimate data statistics by separating static terrain from transient and dynamic content. BENEFIT: We will pur ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of the proposed effort is the development of a radiation hardened, programmable Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) ASIC. The ASIC will be designed to provide flexibility for variable bandwidth and variable resolution requirements of current satellite control systems. Nu-Trek"s concept provides a universal, radiation hardened Sigma-Delta ADC solution which is r ...

ABSTRACT: Space Micro proposes to leverage existing radiation hardened electronics architecture coupled with state-of-the-art cryptographic solutions to provide a hosted payload interface package. This hardware has flight heritage, and its modularity has proven the ideal platform for a wide variety of missions. This modularity is especially important for hosted payloads, where each mission will b ...

ABSTRACT: The goal of this technology development is to design, develop and test Li-ion battery cells with long cyclic life composing an advanced cathode. There are number of candidate cathode and anode materials are considered promising candidates for lithium ion battery due to their large capacity and relatively good rate capability, low self-discharge and relatively good capacity retention ...

ABSTRACT: This proposal details the plan for developing a prototype model of the Intra-cavity Coherent Optical Amplifier (ICOA). Wide Field of View (WFOV) high-gain amplifiers are critical components for various electro-optical systems. A fully developed ICOA will expand the use of coherent imaging systems for acquisition, tracking, identification and characterization of distant objects. The prop ...

ABSTRACT: Innoflight"s Phase 1 SBIR proposes to define the architecture, CONOPs and preliminary design and interface specification of a Hosted Payload Secure Interface (HPSI) leveraging Innoflight"s existing High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) embedded solution. HAIPE provides NSA compliant endpoint encryption over packet-switched communication infrastructures. The purpose of the ...

ABSTRACT: Over the last twenty years the United States has become dependent on space technology for communications, precision tracking and many other applications. Globalization of the worlds economy, which has also dramatically increased over the past twenty years, has resulted in this same dependence in industrialized and developing nations around the world. As a result of these trends, the s ...

ABSTRACT: Landing gear systems are one of the more problematic subsystems on USAF aircraft. The most common landing gear failures are caused by mis-servicing of the gear, resulting in much higher loads (even for a"normal"landing events or cause excessive fatigue damage than originally assumed). This phenomena is present and problematic for multiple aircraft platforms. The ability to measure, re ...