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Effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Command and Control (C2) have long been a high priority need for the Navy and Department of Defense (DoD). Communication is essential for enabling UAV applications. A major challenge in the rapidly growing UAV secure command, control, and communications area is ensuring the transmission of critical information in Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) bandwidth-limi ...

A battery is proposed that utilizes a Li+ conducting, solid-electrolyte separator, LiSICON, Li metal anode and high-capacity cathode. The LiSICON ceramic is fabricated using state of the art tape casting methods which allows composite structures of porous and dense layers ~100ƒÝm thick. The layered structure increase mechanical strength and decrease interfacial and bulk resistances. The high-ene ...

Recent advances in conductive composites and coatings in the form of electromagnetic shielding materials by Metal Matrix Composites Company now make it possible to scale up the technology insertion opportunities to the stage of advanced commercialization and manufacturing. The materials described herein provide the highest level of broadband shielding for composites and coatings of any known advan ...

Reception of numerous, concurrent emitters may be accomplished through a novel ultra-high frequency ADC, novel cross-correlator and novel real time template-generation software running on a high performance computer. Implementation of the hardware uses both superconducting electronics and cryoCMOS.

TLC has developed an innovative multi-component radiation hard InP HEMT based chip approach that will provide monolithic digital,millimter-wave and photnic functions for airborne, spaceborne and other military systems. During phase I we demonstrated lattice engineering, epi growth, design and device fabriction capabilities that resulted in high performance electronic and photonic devices using I ...

Elimination of the cold chain is of vital importance for the ability to treat injured warfighters in the field and behind enemy lines. The application of an already FDA approved reagent for the stabilization of labile reagents will allow for minimal development time delaying the fielding of a new technology to fill this role. Protein polymers have been used extensively since the 1980s as an appr ...

The inter-domain routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) was designed for statically configured land-based networks, which experience infrequent topology changes. As a result, BGP performs poorly in airborne network environment, where the topology of the networks is constantly changing because of domains mobility. Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) has, as part of its Phase I effort, ...

The objective of the Phase II SBIR project is to develop, integrate, and test production representative FPGA based 1394 network interface hardware. The developed hardware will be tested and demonstrated within current program avionics networks using actual aircraft equipment. This hardware will have integrated New Wave 1394 PHY and Link Layer FPGA cores. The outcome of this program will be FPGA ba ...

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) has identified the need for a utility that will compress XML data prior to transmission over a network. This utility will address the recent proliferation of XML in military communication systems and the resulting data inflation associated with XML. No current XML compression tools available today are suitable for on-the-fly compression of X ...

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 proposed model will use a combined Eulerian-Lagrangian treatment for analyzing the three-dimensional gas-particle flow. Analysis of radiative heat exchange ...