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Ultra-light weight, highly conductive carbon nanotube sheets that can be bonded to graphite composites while also conducting in the GHz region have potential to broadly improve EMI/ESD systems. These materials have additional applications including: EMI cable shielding, EMI/EMP electronics protection, preventing unwanted EMI emissions, highly conductive ground planes, and ESD layers. This proposa ...

Future Department of Defense (DoD) space-borne electro-optical payloads will require reliable, efficient, and lightweight cryocoolers for sensor cooling. Turbo-Brayton cryocoolers are an ideal candidate for these payloads. The technology is reliable and space proven with one unit having provided over 6 years of successful operations on the Hubble Space Telescope without any change in performance ...

Production and maintenance of high-performance military aircraft requires tools capable of providing highly accurate measurements on curved surfaces. Creare has developed the Fastener Measurement Tool (FMT) to quickly and reliably assess the depth of both filled and unfilled fasteners relative to the aircraft outer mold line. There is a need to add new modes to the FMT to measure hole countersink ...

NextGen Federal Systems (NextGen) seeks to integrate and operationalize existing capabilities and their SBIR results into a complete and operational Weather Machine Learning Platform (WxMLP). The proposed WxMLP Research to Operations effort directly addresses the Air Force Science and Technology Strategic Capability of Rapid, Effective Decision-Making. This Strategic Capability aims to increase th ...

ABSTRACT: Size, weight, and power (SWaP) limitations restrict the ability of airborne radar systems to detect low-observable moving targets such as dismounts and slow vehicles in strong clutter. Solid State Scientific Corporation has developed a unique ground moving target indication signal processing algorithm which is ideal for SWaP limited systems due to its computational efficiency and its sen ...

GST is proposing to produce Sensor Data Records and Environmental Data Records for the AirForce WeatherSat mission and Cloud characterization through a scalable, adaptable, and interoperable information processing and delivery infrastructure. We will use lightweight systems engineering methodology to develop requirements and a summary development plan, or Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD ...

ABSTRACT:Knobley Technical Associates Phase Il Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Technologies for Tactical Missiles program includes design, analysis, development and testing efforts to define and mitigate technical and operational challengesto be investigated and resolved for successful maturation ofthe performance enhancing burn-rate augment highly loaded propellant grain technology for next generatio ...

Sanders Design International (SDI), Wilton, NH proposes an innovative defensive countermeasure against man portable air defense system (MANPADS) weapons to 15,000 feet altitude. Sanders Infrared Counter Measure (SICM) system is proposed for installation on commercial airliners and legacy military aircraft for protection of aircraft and personnel, during take-off, low-level flight, and landing situ ...

Solid State Scientific Corporation is pleased to propose a Phase II program to enhance the state of current missile threat warning systems. A new algorithm concept using up to four MWIR color bands will be explored for identifying and declaring threats approaching threats while rejecting stationary or receding targets as clutter. The band pass of the four narrow-band filters in the MWIR will be ...

ABSTRACT: Combustion stability is critical to the performance of augmented military jet engines. Instabilities such as screech can result in reduced augmentor performance, blowout, or even catastrophic failure. Screech remains a difficult problem to predict and mitigate, and its occurrence can limit the operational flight envelope of military systems. Many of the passive techniques used to sup ...