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In this SBIR effort we will develop a balanced detection analog photonic link consisting of a DFB laser, a dual-output high-speed, low-Vp mach-zehnder modulator (MZM) and a high-power, high-linearity balanced photodetector (BPD) using a dual-core, single mode, multicore fiber (MCF) that is supplied by our subcontractor, OFS. We will design, fabricate and characterize (phase I) the MZM and the BPD, ...

Photonic integration, and specifically silicon photonics, has emerged as one of the leading solutions for maintaining or improving the performance of optical systems while addressing the requirements related to size, weight, and power (SWaP). Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate multiple photonic elements onto a single chip, are specifically suited to providing the complexity and f ...

Operational availability, reliability, and performance of Navy aircraft are key factors in achieving mission success. The Army maintains extensive data sets to document historical and current field experience with in-service aircraft. Engineering, logistics,and maintenance organizations,at all levels, use these data sets as inputs to guide decision processes about engineering and sustainment plann ...

Higher acquisition costs (i.e. cost escalations) and delayed deliveries in new aircraft procurements, e.g. F-35, have had serious downstream consequences for AF needs/priorities. DoD can afford to buy fewer aircraft which directly impacts adequate fleet readiness. Labor content in manufacturing the pervasive (over 60 miles in typical B-737) infrastructure of wire harnesses is reportedly the larges ...

Vacuum electronic devices (VEDs) have demonstrated their ruggedness and insensitivity to harsh environments, making them the top choice for mitigating high Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) in military operations and missions. However, manual and cumbersome fabrication does not permit VEDs to circuit integration including integrated circuit (IC) formats to ensure best reliability and performance. InnoSy ...

This GasTOPS Inc. proposal is aimed at providing a high quality, low risk solution to the MQ-9 platform by providing an onboard engine health monitoring capability to support current and future missions. Currently there is a lack of wear monitoring capability for the Honeywell TPE331 propulsion system in the Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) which has caused a number o ...

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) has developed a client/server command and control application called Mobius. Mobius can be used to monitor vehicles and assets and control autonomous vehicles. Mobius has been successfully used to control a wide variety of ground vehicles (from small roving cameras to 100-ton haul trucks) to perform a wide variety of missions, including physical security, farming, ...

The Marine Corps has used light emitting diode (LED) lighting systems in soft-wall and rigid-wall shelters. Unfortunately, the current LED lighting has not provided the energy efficiencies and cost savings originally desired. InnoSys proposes to develop new lighting that are based on printed quantum dots (QD) + LED on commercially available flexible substrates for use in lighting systems in soft-w ...

CFDRC proposes to develop a DoD open source geometry kernel and associated APIs that can be incorporated into DoD High-Performance Computing frameworks to enable dynamic simulations of a) surface deformation or relative motion encountered in 6DOF motion of control surfaces, moving rotors in turbomachinery, store separation, and aeroelasticity; b) adaptive mesh refinement near curved boundaries; an ...

During the Phase I, Baker Engineering Inc. (BEI) proposes to research the feasibility of developing an advanced micro-turbocharger that can be applied to small UAS propulsion systems in the 2-20 horsepower range. BEI will focus the research and design efforts on a micro-turbocharger to fit the 3W-28i propulsion platform (ScanEagle UAV). Incorporating a specially designed micro-turbocharger system ...