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Transphorm proposes to demonstrate a normally off fast high voltage Gallium Nitride power switch solution. The switch would block to 1200V, have a threshold voltage greater than 5 V, and the phase 2 switch will target an on resistance less than 15 ohm-mm and current more than 1 Amp. To accomplish these targets, Transphorm will combine the design requirements of realizing a high (and positive) thre ...

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes in Phase II to mature the first-of-its-kind automated Pneumothorax Diagnostic Chest Pad (NUMOPAD) system, developed in response to an ONR request and proven feasible in Phase I. This system consists of chest dressing with integrated sensing electronics applied to the injured warfighter that wirelessly communicates with a medic/corpsman-worn display unit. ...

Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) propose to develop and test a system that uses existing signal processing algorithms coupled with innovative construction technology developed ISL under our E-Field sensor programs and FAU under UUV programs. The Challenge is to develop a small system package with the capability to intercept active threat emissions early ...

The challenge has been set to meet Navy’s renewable fuel standard using advanced biofuels. Microalgae, along with other future fuel crops, must be aggressively developed now, not later. Recent dramatic demonstrations with algae based biodiesel and biojet show that it is no longer a question of algae being suitable as a natural source of oils that can be refined to produce biofuels. Rather, it is ...

A novel optical connection architecture for avionic local area networks is being implemented using unique photonic integrated circuit based core. The connection will enable different network architectures, while providing size, weight and power reduction, robustness and ruggedness.

Since its invention by Bell Lab’s researchers over a decade ago, Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) based wireless communications has been touted as the next revolution in wireless data communications. By taking advantage of multipath propagations, MIMO can provide orders of magnitude improved performance in terms of range, power consumption, and data throughput in NLOS multipath rich environ ...

TrellisWare proposes a PHY architecture with the following key characteristics (1) Universal: Operate in a wide variety of multi-path scenarios (High dynamic multipath to support Air-to-Ground and UAV Teleops as well as severe multipath to support Ground-to-Ground Teleops) (2) Implementable: The PHY must be implementable with JTRS SDR platform processing constraints (3) Retrofittable: The PHY m ...

The rotorcraft aerodynamic interaction is a complicated problem and remains an extremely challenging aspect of rotorcraft analysis. This STTR is dedicated to developing a solution for the complicated rotorcraft aerodynamic interaction problem. The Phase I research coupled a state-of-the-art vortex particle method (VPM) with an unstructured Navier-Stokes CFD body surface solver and prototyped a hyb ...

During Phase I of this SBIR effort, Anacapa Sciences, Inc. invented a new technology for analyzing and optimizing the design of critical aspects of the User Interfaces (UIs) for real-time systems that have high urgency for errorless operator performance. The technology is based on machine-learning algorithms currently used in commercial data mining applications. We discovered that this class of al ...

The US Navy needs the capability to model acoustic propagation in complex ocean environments containing natural or man-made objects. Such accurate modeling requires the solution of the wave equation in the ocean containing scatterers. In the absence of the scatterer, the oceanic waveguide can be assumed to be axially symmetric. This allows certain types of physically valid approximations to be mad ...