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An interactive application that employs social interactions to teach key social conventions, including appropriate responses, reacting to body language and facial expressions, and the ability to ask for help to facilitate functioning in society

This proposed work is for the design of an innovative broadband circuit for high-power multiple beam klystrons. A key technical objective is to develop an output cavity with high interaction impedance to ensure high power and high efficiency circuit operation at reasonable beam voltages. A buncher circuit design to effect a uniform bunching current across the band will also be developed to take ad ...

The overall goal of this SBIR project is to develop low cost, low dark current, enhanced quantum efficiency and high sensitivity and uniformity monolithic detectors and arrays having response in spectral range greater than 12 um and operating at temperatures higher than 77K. Epitaxial Technologies' Phase I objective is to establish the feasibility of innovative material growths and device concepts ...

There are many factors that render automatic target recognition challenging. These include cluttered background, adverse weather and acquisition conditions, spatially closed targets, spectrally-matched decoys, and the limits on sensor resolution etc. One solution is to have a 3D display, which will help discriminate the targets. However, a major challenge in rectifying the sensor streams, i.e. to ...

The problem of long and costly development cycles for Guidance Navigation and Control software is not unique to the MDA's Targets and Countermeasures Program. The development of GN&C software for spacecraft can take even longer to design, produce, and validate. In order to shorten the time-to-flight for spacecraft GN&C systems, ICS and Swales Aerospace have devised a software architecture and to ...

Little Optics and Georgia Tech Research Institute will collaborate in developing new processes and materials to dramatically improve the switched speed in optical programmable delay lines. The target switching time constant is 50 microseconds.

Maxion Technologies, in collaboration with a research team at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, proposes to adapt its interband cascade (IC) laser technology to create IR light-emitting-diode (LED) arrays that emit in the 3-5-micron spectral region and can meet necessary array performance requirements for IR scene projection. IC-based arrays will provide point and extended source em ...

This project addresses the problem of lifecycle management of large scale software systems. In systems with a large code base, system and software engineers often struggle with maintaining a consistent view of the system architecture and software. WW Technology Group will develop techniques that capture missile defense agency (MDA) software code bases and system architectures into an open, machi ...

There is significant opportunity to reduce cost, cycle time, and process variability of optical sensor assemblies through the application of innovative engineering and metrology tools. The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying DFMA (Design for Manufacturability and Assembly) techniques and Advanced Metrology tools to systematically evaluate the manufacturing proc ...

This proposed program will develop new computer models and integrate them with existing core lethality models to better predict KEW boost phase engagement strategy lethality effectiveness and to assist development of emerging enhanced lethality weapon systems tasked to neutralize enemy missile attack threats. Traditional Hit-To-Kill (HTK) lethality simulations have focused on KEW/warhead interact ...