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Military UAS platforms are crucial for conducting ISR and providing real-time offensive and defensive information. However, smaller electric systems that can be carried in the field suffer from poor endurance and low payload weights. As endurance requirements increase, battery and airframe weight grow exponentially to extend range capabilities. This results in a downward spiral of weight increases ...

Pranalytica proposes a program to bring the current generation of MWIR (out-of-band) pointers to a TRL of 7, along with a number of mission critical improvements, including: 1. Reduction in the exit beam divergence to

To address the USSOCOM need for an innovative alternate means or a redundant aircraft positioning and navigation system to operate in GPS-denied areas, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposed, and in Phase I successfully developed and demonstrated the feasibility of, a new Redundant Gimbal-less Navigation and Positioning (REGINA) system, including the Star Navigation System (SNS), Terrestrial N ...

The goal of this SBIR effort is to allow Special Operations Forces to communicate using tactical MANET radios in the presence of adversary jamming capabilities while transmitting large data files and potentially streaming data such as video and other sensor data.Our approach is based on spatial filtering using multi-antenna capable radios. The technique has perviously been shown effective under st ...

The United States Special Operations Command needs the capability to conduct intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance from airborne assets. The Governments objective is to develop an extended range radar prototype system that can track personnel and vehicles in all-weather conditions, during the day and at night, with a Ground Moving Target Indicator and to image personnel or vehicles throu ...

In this SBIR topic, DNDO has identified the necessity for an optimized PRND UI which can run on a smartphone/device and can either communicate with actual detector hardware or receive simulated input from a software component based on the user's position relative to virtual source(s). This Spectral Labs Incorporated (SLI) proposal, 'RAD/NUC Smart-device User Interface & Training Environment' (RN-S ...

To address the DHS need, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new InfraRed and Optical Wilderness Location and Surveillance (IROWL) system based on the unique integration of a handheld spotting device, display, and compact multispectral zoom optics. The lightweight handheld device includes surveillance optics, infrared sensors, and display electronics to enable Border Patrol Age ...

We will develop a compact solid-state gas sensor using a novel ultrasound technology called CMUTs, invented by renowned Stanford Professor B. Khuri-Yakub two decades earlier. Although its application in gas sensors was known for some time, its challenges have so far prevented its commercialization. Aromatix Technologies has identified solution to each of these challenges, which are the subjects of ...

Many current approaches applying big data analytics to defensive cyberspace operations (DCO) are based on two premises: queries that find known anomalies (e.g., indicators of compromise) and/or applying machine learning to detect anomalous behavior. While some claim to predict attacks, in truth those attacks must have already been detected somewhere, characterized, and added to a knowledge base. W ...

Space Micro proposes to develop innovative CubeSat payloads and technology that will support USSOCOM missions and/or advance CubeSat technology relevant to USSOCOM missions. leveraging previous DARPA space communications R&D on F6, we propsoal a novel CubeSat compatible communications concept called SiMax.