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Guidestar is using digital holographic imaging to acquire the active tracking images in an air-to-air high energy laser weapon system. In this Phase II program, Guidestar will implement the algorithms developed in the Phase I program and demonstrate the ability of holographic tracking to improve tracking performance while simultaneously reducing the required illuminator power. The Phase II demon ...

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) platforms fit into the USAF Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance strategy by providing local persistence, operation in contested environments, and low probability of detection. SUAS gimbal performance is ty

The airborne tier of our militarys communications network plays a critical role in enabling real-time situational awareness, allowing warfighters to synchronize their operations both on and off the battlefield. As the number of users sharing broadband data grows, new technologies are required to mitigate radio frequency (RF) interference for airborne relays and network subscribers. A robust and un ...

Agile RF Systems LLC has baselined a low risk, high performance solution to realizing a multiple beam antenna (MBA) architecture at V/W band that substantially reduces physical integration complexity. The antenna architecture allows physical separation of transmit and receive feed networks using an innovative dichroic filter while achieving very high transmit to receive isolation. The assembly is ...

Braxtons Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Advanced Control Equipment (ACE) Intelligent Resource Optimizer (AceIRO) product contains all the integral functionality with a mission unique plugin (MUP) to enable an EGS Proxy Service (EPS) which will broker

Guidestar Optical Systems will develop a detailed design for an affordable, compact adaptive optical (AO) system which can be deployed at 1-meter class telescopes to accomplish characterization of low earth orbit objects and area inspection around high va

The goal of the proposed work is to provide government and commercial satellite operators and manufacturers with an automated, optimized, tailored tool for determining whether anomalous behavior of specific satellites or satellite fleets is caused by the

In this SBIR effort we will develop broadband, low V, high linearity, thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) modulators that are fully compatible with silicon photonic integrated circuits (PIC) foundry processes. Developing such devices as well a

Developers of modern software, particularly those targeting mobile or embedded platforms, are presented with a wide variety of hardware choices. Solutions can be built on microprocessors (e.g. x86, ARM, or Power architecture), GPUs (e.g. NVIDIAs Tegra), DSPs, FPGAs, or some combination of these technologies. Not only does this place a significant burden on programmers in understanding the intricac ...

Todays chromated aircraft polysulfide primers provide excellent corrosion protection and a high degree of flexibility, which is required at seams and fasteners where there is large flexure. However, The Air Force would like to phase out these coatings because they have slow dry times, release high levels of VOCs and contain toxic hexavalent chromates. The MIL-PRF-32239A type 2 class 2 grade 1 spec ...