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This proposal addresses the joint transmitter-receiver design for simultaneous multitasking efforts such as AMTI/GMTI and SAR by exploiting Spatial, Temporal, Energy, Polarization and Spectral (STEPS) diversities. To exploit spatial diversity, a distributed multi-sensor array is used, whereas multiple pulses are used for temporal diversity. In addition, transmit energy, polarization and spectral ...

Our Phase II proposal is to build and further expand on our successes during Phase I of this project and develop micro-electromechanical device-based sensors (MEMS) for in-situ health monitoring and damage detection of coatings and tribological components (i.e. ball and rolling element bearings) for military aircrafts and commercial space systems. The Phase II of our SBIR will include: i) advance ...

Generation of extended IR scenes without flicker is critical for evaluation of IR imagers for many DoD applications. The evaluation of critical performance parameters of algorithms, optics, and sensors rely on the ability to generate extended infrared sources that approximate realistic targets, countermeasures and backgrounds. K Lab corporation proposed and successfully demonstrated in phase I t ...

Warfare within a city is a difficult business not only because of the abundance of man-made obstacles, but because the effects of bomb strikes are difficult to measure. Reconnoitering at low altitude and close range by a manned aircraft is often prohibitively dangerous because of the lack of maneuvering room and the high probability of hostile fire. A small, unobtrusive UAV (unmanned aerial vehicl ...

XTAR Broadband-Satellite Air Force Research (XBAR’s ) main purpose is provide a two way broadband satellite communication architecture that can best utilize the newly made available XTAR satellite. The Phase II efforts will be focused on development of a fully functional prototype version of XBAN based on a single two-way satellite broadband technology. The hardware the deliverables will includ ...

MSI’s Phase II effort will produce and install a fully operational system capable of autonomously performing online diagnostic and prognostic calculations for the determination of rotating machinery system health using an acoustic intensity image as the basis for diagnosis. The system will be designed to monitor at least two compressor trains at Arnold Air Force Base AEDC in an online, continuo ...

Low phase noise oscillators are core components for communications and radars. System timing jitter is fundamentally important for digital systems and phase noise is the figure of merit for RF systems. For multi-GB/s clocks, optoelectronic oscillators using optical delay for the clock period, appear to have significant advantages. The phase noise may be minimized because the delay variability li ...

In order to realize the full potential of Silicon Carbide and to facilitate its deployment in high-temperature power electronics applications, it is important to establish an integrated modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) infrastructure to address the special considerations and numerous technical challenges that must be overcome and to support design at the device, subsystem, and system lev ...

The impending need to test very high power lasers in open air range conditions poses new problems for safety and environmental engineers responsible for those tests. In particular, there is serious concern that a misdirected beam or specular reflection might leave the test range and injure unprotected persons. In response to this requirement, Sensing Strategies, Inc. (SSI) proposes to build and ...

The SBIR program’s goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating inherently radiation hard, high efficiency solar cells based on InGaN photovoltaic devices using both MBE for material parameter optimization and MOCVD for manufacturability. Recent results by our SBIR partner at Cornell show that InN has a much narrower bandgap than previously believed: 0.7 eV, compared to earlier estimate ...