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Composites that are reinforced with well-dispersed carbon nanotubes have been shown to improve the performance of polymers in many areas such as stiffness, heat distortion temperature, control of thermal coefficient of expansion, and corrosion resistancein extreme environments. However, much of the nanocomposite related research and development has not been directly relevant to carbon fiber reinfo ...

The goal of this proposed DARPA SBIR project is to design, build and test a high efficiency 2 cycle ceramic/polymer engine that will run on JP-8 fuel with a self-contained onboard starter generator. The engine system will ncorporate a ceramic piston,cylinder, and head with lightweight polymer engine casing. The use of high wear thermally insulating ceramics will greatly eliminate the need for lu ...

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Future high bandwidth satellite communications will utilize free-space lasers, which provide high bandwidth, low probability of intercept and jam resistant communication between satellites and ground assets. A current network uses a satellite with aseparate transmitter and receiver for each communication link. Current world events demonstrated that there are applications for multiple communicati ...

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Crawdad Technologies, L.L.C. is an R&D firm located in Chandler, Arizona that specializes in quantitative communication analysis. Their first product Crawdad 1.0 is based on Centering Resonance Analysis (CRA; patents pending), a radical new way to modeland analyze text. CRA models texts as networks, and uses sophisticated methods to perform a variety of analyses. CRA is the only text analysis a ...

Freestyle Technology, Inc. proses to design an build a six-camera video imaging device for use in navigation research. The individual cameras will be attached to two-meter tethers to allow for flexible placement on a variety of platforms. All cameraswill be genlocked to a common signal to assure that corresponding pixels in each camera are sampled at the same time. A user interface will be prov ...

Freestyle Technologies, Inc. proposes to perform exploratory research in the area of munition-deployed microprobes. The baseline microprobe will consist of simple acoustic and sesmic sensors and will be deployed by an autonomous munition at locations ofinterest. Once deployed, the microprobes will form an ad hoc wireless network and passively monitor for targets. The microprobes will signal the ...

The overall goal of the proposed research is to develop a comprehensive, efficient, and well-validated model for the prediction of the shape and thermal history of components manufactured using Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) processes. The proposedmodel will use a combined Eulerian-Lagrangian treatment for analyzing the interactions between the gas and particle phases, and the laser beam. The ...

The USAF approach to training its Warfighters is well defined for the aviation community but how do you build an Information Warfare Gunnery range?The ISIS IW gunnery range:¿ Provides training/evaluation in USAF IW tasks and competencies.¿ Includes methodology for systematically linking USAF tasks/competencies to a training scenario.¿ Includes a mechanism to measure performance an ...