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This proposal addresses the development of new methodology and supporting technology to predict reaction forces in weapon store connections of naval aircraft. The proposed methodology utilizes a strain gage-based measurement technique in which a series of sensors are calibrated with a set of known loading configurations. The sensitivity matrix relating the measured strains to the loads forms the c ...

LES will be used to calculate flow and noise issuing from realistic engine configurations such as realistic engine nozzle throats, serrated nozzles, straight ramp diffusers, and over/under expanded operation. Nozzle geometry and operating conditions can be specified by the government with the objective of validating noise prediction capability on the basis of realistic parameters. Where necessary, ...

Phase Tailoring represents a unique and novel approach to significantly driving up pulse energies in all-fiber ultrafast laser systems. One of the challenges of working in the ultrafast regime is that the amplification and compression part of the chirped pulse amplification scheme can cause a variety of effects that will damage pulse quality and must be accounted for, such as B-integral, SOP and o ...

PhaseSpace and the University of Southern California (USC) propose a hybrid tracking solution that will combine the PhaseSpace Impulse LED tracking technology with computer vision image processing and inertial tracking. The hybrid tracker will track IR LEDs on a soldier''s head, fingers, weapon, and boots, to sub-millimeter precision at 960 Hz. It will also be capable of capturing each s ...

For this Phase 2 effort related to STTR Topic N09-T031, PhaseSpace proposes building an HMD system using pico-projectors and reflective transparent lenses. The system will be low-cost, but the improved field-of-view (improved compared to current state-of-the-art) will provide a higher quality immersive experience than systems currently on the market. PhaseSpace has already developed prototypes of ...

The goal of this STTR Phase II program is to design, build, and evaluate the blast resistance of a prototype structure for a specific Navy lightweight tactical vehicle. The performance of the prototype will meet the program goal to be less than 10 lb/ft2, and to reduce the amount of transmitted impulse at least 30 percent compared to a monolithic metallic armor plate with the same areal density. T ...

Tahoe RF"s will develop"BeamDirect,"a phased array beam forming & beam steering system which incorporates the LO Phase Shifting technology developed during the Phase I activities. The system will perform as a broad band phase array antenna receiver from 100 MHz to a 6 GHz in conjunction with a circular broadband antenna. This system will provide exceptional SNR and BER and is targeted to improve i ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) requires a large number of gateways for inter-networking between disparate waveforms. Until now gateways are designed for specific waveform domains, this approach although simple and quick has led to a lot of duplication of effort. In this proposal UtopiaCompression (UC) in collaboration with UCLA, Command and Control Technologies Corporation and the Boeing Company ...

The hindrances to full use of geospecific imagery are the labor required to create the databases, and limits on the rendering capacity of current image generators (IGs), both in polygon count and texture volume. Our solution is to create modeling tools to automate the application of ISR imagery on geospecific urban geometry and to use advanced rending techniques to visualize dense urban scenes in ...

This Phase II Proposal is for the development of an all-fiber based approach to optical cooling for RF systems: a high power, high efficiency Tm+3-doped fiber laser (Lambda from 1.9 microns to ~ 2 microns) is used to pump Tm+3-doped glass fibers, which provide the cooling action on the affixed heat source. One of the main advantages of this approach is that the waste (heat) photons can in principl ...