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Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM) proposes to develop a hybrid multi-axial fatigue analysis toolkit for Abaqus through a coupling of frequency and time domain solution modules to capture accumulated damage in metallic and its repaired structures resulting from mixed quasi-static and dynamic loading. GEM will draw on its extensive experience in advanced metal fatigue and fracture and bol ...

Submarine applications for antennas are severely constricted by mission constraints for stealth and force protection. High fidelity fiber optic links could potentially open a new range of mission capabilities by enabling towed antenna arrays that could be accessed while submerged. However, to date RF photonic links have had insufficient noise performance and/or dynamic range to satisfy these missi ...

ABSTRACT: Casting parts with intricate internal surfaces are routinely used in many gun systems. It is important to inspect those casting parts to ensure the inner structures comply with the original design during the first article testing and production lot certification. Currently, inspections of inner surfaces are often done with borescopes, which is time consuming, labor intensive, and costly. ...

This proposal develops a new method to accurately identify counterfeit electronic parts ranging from passive components to advanced microprocessors and full circuit boards.The method uses an intrinsic material security approach coupled with a physically uncloneable function (PUF) that is not added to the device fabrication protocol.The hyperspectral method combines transient dielectric and IR emis ...

ABSTRACT: Design and develop a rechargeable battery with high power density, long run time, good safety and storage life using SKCP's advanced polymer Li-ion technology.; BENEFIT: High energy, Safety, Wide-temperature range and Good power capability rechargeable batteries for uses for battlefield airmen.

ABSTRACT: Next generation satellite communication systems must be robust to hostile jammers which degrade link budget and desensitize reception. A proposed solution is to use frequency hopping techniques to communicate in a spectrum space free of hostile jammers and an all digital radio in which the agility and robustness is provided by the data-converters. To this end, broadband high dynamic rang ...

ABSTRACT: The past decade has seen a proliferation of computing devices. A landscape once dominated by single core microprocessors has given way to a plethora of competing technologies including multicore x86, ARM, and Power-family processors, graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Xeon Phis, DSPs, and TILE architectures, among others. Further complicating matter ...

ABSTRACT: The topic requests proposals to develop scalable, flexible lower SWaP-C GPS crosslink capability that allows future operational systems to forego significant dependence upon ground clock and ephemeris refresh with concurrent support of real-time command and control and age of data. The development of this capability will improve the reliability and robustness of future GPS satellites by ...

ABSTRACT: In sensor applications, it is important to monitor smart structures such as buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, and subways. In this program, Fontus Applied Technologies proposes to develop a health monitoring sensor. Our novel system design minimizes the components needed in the system, thus the system cost, and also alleviates the speed requirement on the demodulating devices. Our prop ...

ABSTRACT: SSI proposes to develop a novel satellite tracking system with a laser projection assembly to provide a means to calibrate satellite imaging systems while they are on orbit.The instrument will use a laser to create known irradiance levels at the satellite.The beam intensity will be able to be modulated so that temporal waveforms of interest to the government can be created for testing th ...