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Current Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) technology is capable of quantum computing, however, its application is limited due to its large size, low-temperature refrigeration requirement, and high cost.  Quantum optical semiconductor-scale chip technology is promising but not commercially available yet due to the multiple challenges to overcome. Using quantum photonic technology ...

Satellite-based atmospheric soundings are extremely valuable in remote regions lacking nearby radiosondes. They provide a depiction of temperature and water vapor structure to improve prediction of clouds, storms, and rainfall, and massively contribute to numerical weather prediction (NWP) via data assimilation. However, satellite profiles are too smooth and under-determined, thereby suffering fro ...

Spatial Disorientation (SD) is a contributing factor in many fatal aircraft accidents, resulting in significant loss of life and equipment.  For example, an analysis of SD mishaps in the U.S. Air Force from 1993 to 2013 identified 72 SD mishaps at a cost of 101 lives, 65 aircraft, and 2.32 billion dollars.  Further, published statistics may understate the severity of the SD problem.  Some resea ...

High power generation at millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequencies is expensive and the concurrent need for wide bandwidths at these frequencies creates an extremely challenging problem. Currently the most stringent requirements for mm-wave power and bandwidth can only be practically met by vacuum electronics (VE) technology. At present, vacuum amplifiers with the required performance are prohibitivel ...

NanoSonic is a small, advanced materials company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of state-of-the-art structural composites that are not commercially available.  Here, NanoSonic shall produce aircraft composites using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques with a commercial scalable method for revitalizing carbon fiber reclaimed from end-of-life and aircraft composite scraps. ...

RIPACS will provide a novel capability for small UAVs, specifically Group 4 5 vehicles such as the MQ8 Fire Scout, extending their autonomy from pre mission planning through to landing. Being able to fly through a series of waypoints is a well established capability, but human operators are required to layout plans, update plans based on incoming data and react to contingencies.  Requiring humans ...

To support Navy Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training for surface fleets during periods of long transit, the Navy would like to consider alternative communication paths that can link shore based trainers and simulation capabilities with trainers and training systems afloat. To support full spectrum training during the training events, there is a desire to selectively turn off communicatio ...

Under this STTR solicitation N20B-T028, the goal is to build on the strengths of HyPerComp’s development in the HDphysics suite of tools to meet NAVAIR’s requirements in solving large-scale problems in electromagnetics.  One area that will receive a major attention in this effort is the development of high order curved meshes for arbitrary geometries with small- and large-scale features that ...

As complexity and performance requirements increases for RF sensors and systems for electronic warfare applications, the need for innovative and low-power compressive sensing (CS) technologies will become urgent in power constrained mobile platforms. There are several DOD and government application areas where this holds true and the high-performance CS technology to be developed in this program c ...

Sophisticated high-fidelity Computational Electromagnetics simulation tools, such as HyPerComp’s HDPhysics-RF software toolset, allow for performance analysis of very complex antennas on full aircraft configurations for Navy applications. Many different antenna types such as passive phased array (PESA), active electronically scanned array (AESA), hybrid beam forming phased array, and digital bea ...