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The objective of the proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a generic package that provides high vacuum, temperature control and vibration isolation for a wide range of high performance (tactical and navigation grade) micromachined inertial sensors. Inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) are now widely used in consumer and industrial applications. However, for high performance nav ...

A scheme to implement logic gates based on nonlinear dynamic systems is proposed. This approach allows for the realization of a powerful yet flexible computing architecture. For the Phase I effort, AshRem Technologies in conjunction with California State University, Los Angeles, will analyze and the implement in hardware a flexible logic gate architecture that can be developed further to yield a r ...

The Navy is looking for a novel way to"test the functionality automatically of all the die on a wafer before it is diced to find the working die and then to mount the"known-good"die into a larger circuit in such a way that repair to the functionality of the whole can be accomplished by replacing the part, not the whole."The enabling technology is a reworkable adhesive with a combination of propert ...

Virtual EM is proposing a platform coupling technique for improving efficiency of electrically small antennas on ground, sea and air vehicles. The the proposed approach, a portion of the platform becomes the extension of the antenna and hence result in higher performance. Technique has been demonstrated already with the commercial automotive applications and a revised approach is proposed here.

In this proposal, we present Motion Imagery Exploitation with Compressive Sensing (MIECS), a system for improving the flow and exploitation of data gathered from wide-area surveillance. The proposed system exploits techniques from the recently developed field of compressive sensing compressive sensing for solving this problem. The system exploits significant temporal redundancy in captured data in ...

The Department of Defense has growing needs to identify and understand methods for determining information value as a basis for future decision support systems. Understanding how humans process information, determine salience, and combine seemingly unrelated information is essential to automated processing of large amounts of information that is partially relevant or of unknown relevance. Rece ...

With the increased threat of shipboard fires, due to the use of composite structures, automated 3D fire control has become an important requirement. These sensors must provide fire detection and 3D localization that can trigger an automated firefighting response. Advanced Scientific Concept's (ASC) eye-safe 3D Flash LIDAR cameras provide a unique 3D imaging solution for fire suppression syste ...

Gener8, Columbia University and Lockheed Martin will team to develop a high-speed electronically tunable wavelength filter. Columbia University has developed a method of fabricating thin-films of lithium-niobate called Crystal Ion Slicing (CIS). These thin films enable new electro-optical devices to be designed with order-of-magnitude improvements in electro-optical performance. Two design concpet ...

MARK Resources Inc has developed processing algorithms to classify small ships based on 3-d scatterer positions extracted from ISAR data. This processing relies on measuring range-Doppler positions of selected scatterers over selected imaging intervals. Extending the processing to small boats entails overcoming degraded resolution due to larger and rougher boat motions, smaller physical separation ...

M4 Engineering, Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories propose to create a unique bonded joint analysis and design software tool. Surrogate traction-separation models will be created that efficiently capture the behavior that occurs for real bonded joints. Mixed mode loading, including compressive normal tractions and relative displacements will be captured and used in an extended cohesive zone ele ...