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Small satellites have proven capable and cost effective, and innovative payloads and technologies will expand the mission space that CubeSats can support. ATA proposes to build a CubeSat-sized laser communications prototype payload, adapting high photon efficiency optical communications techniques to achieve data transfer rates up to 100 mega-bits per second (Mbps) with the small apertures require ...

The ability to authenticate electronic devices is an important step towards modernizing the hardware/software of our Nations communication systems. Protecting these targeted networks and devices from malicious cyber-based attacks is becoming increasingly important as the technological and cyber capabilities of our adversaries continue to advance. In addition to network security, device authenticat ...

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 ...

Devices that produce high-power radio frequency and optical radiation can be hazardous to operate and can lead to overexposures in humans. Because human experiments are undesirable, analysts use software chains to predict exposures: these range from simulations of the devices to propagation of the electromagnetic waves through the environment and finally to simulations of effects in human tissue. ...

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 ...

High speed air vehicles operate at material strength performance limits and are at significant risk when subjected to additional localized heating that can result in softening, pitting and burn-through the material and potentially change the vehicle structural profile. These effects degrade aerodynamic performance. The team of CFDRC and UDRI proposed to develop, validate and deliver a comprehensiv ...

Goodman Technologies (GT) and University of Hawaii (a Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center and Minority Serving Institution) in partnership with Robocasting Enterprises (Small Business spin-off from Sandia National Laboratories technology transfer program), will meet all Army objectives (and more) by 3D printing B4C, B6O, B4C-SiC hybrid and other ceramic nanocomposite armor ...

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S) and teammate Auburn University (AU) propose to develop a PNT initialization system for dismounted soldiers. The proposed system will enhance warfighters’ ability to operate immediately in a GPS denied environments once their mission begins and has wide commercialization potential outside of DoD. In Phase I, the feasibility and expected benefits of in ...