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Development of hypersonic aircraft and weapon systems has become a critical focus for the Department of Defense to maintain global strike and projection of force capabilities. Despite decades of research, traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are either incapable of adequately predicting complex features in hypersonic flows or too expensive to be of practical use for vehicle desig ...

From 2012-2015 the world’s first printed amperometric gas sensors were developed at KWJ Engineering Inc. as the subject of an NSF SBIR. The patented technology was used to found SPEC-sensor LLC and obtain commercial funds. More than one million sensors have been sold using SPEC’s patented designs, which led to the recent acquisition by Interlink Electronics, Inc. The next challenge is to grow ...

Over a decade ago, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invented a cold cathode electron field emitter with the potential to disrupt the state of the art for imaging and communications systems. NIST showed that these devices, comprising nanoporous silicon carbide structures of various hierarchical shapes, can emit electrons from their surfaces purely by applicati ...

Current lethality software tools available to the DoD are limited to buildings, ground vehicles and air platforms. The warfighter does not currently have any software tools to support planning and predicting the damage to maritime targets. Weapon effects of interest include those associated with air blast and fire (internal and external), fragmentation, inert/reactive particles, shaped charge/expl ...

In military operations, it is vital that commanders have a high-level of situational awareness to manage risk and make effective decisions. Historically, the limitation of situational awareness has been the availability of data. However, in today's data-saturated battlefield, the challenge has shifted to efficiently harnessing the torrent of source data to construct an accurate picture of the batt ...

Current airborne military communications and electronic warfare systems require low SWaP, rugged fiber optics detectors for airborne military communications and electronic warfare systems. A typical 1 GHz-km graded index multi-mode (MM)50 µm fiber supports 20 GHz communication bandwidth over 50 m fiber length and 50 GHz bandwidth over 20 m fiber length. In both cases, all optical modes of the m ...

During the previous Phases of this project, the Ryalinks team developed and tested the core technology that delivers the functionality of this platform: modular extremely low-power sensor hardware modules capable of operating on 2 AA batteries for years, a hierarchical robust wireless mesh network with self-healing capabilities, and a back-end software to receive, report and broadcast sensor data ...

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is the Department of Defense’s authoritative source for the positions and motion of celestial bodies, motions of the Earth, and precise time. Part of the USNO’s mission involves regular improvement and verification of astronomical star catalog datasets with high-accuracy astrometry and photometry. Incidental collections on satellites may occur as well ...

The primary objective of this effort will be the development, demonstration, and validation of a new suite of modeling and simulation capability for Navy analysis needs. The tool suite will utilize a new framework for implementing components models that will allow users to more easily access multiple analytical domains, including steady-state on-design and dynamic off-design. A new suite of tools ...

The focus of the Compact, Efficient, High Power Direct-to-Green Laser Source SBIR is to develop a highly efficient green laser source tailored for Mine Countermeasures (MCM) in the SurfZone (SZ) and Very Shallow Water (VSW) regions. Areté is proposing to develop a pulsed 532 nm laser system achieving 125 mJ per pulse at a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz and a wall plug efficiency approaching 7%. ...