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Our innovative 3D Motion Analysis technology allows for fast and efficient screening of running technique in military personnel that has previously not been available to this scale. We propose providing education and training on our portable 3D Motion Analysis technology to military personnel to explore new ways to utilize this technology. The education and training will focus on ways to identify ...

The seeds of failures of Defense projects can often be traced back to poor quality requirements and a lack of portfolio level coherence between associated projects. Because projects have become so complex, 100% paper-based methods are no longer suitable for requirements management. In June 2018, the DoD released its Digital Engineering Strategy which calls on the services to “move the primar ...

Lumineye provides wall-penetrating radar to help first-responders and soldiers identify people and threats through walls. We propose investigating the utility of our existing through-wall sensor for the Air Force Security Forces. Our device focuses on improving the situational awareness of the AFSF in all law enforcement, emergency response situations, and combat missions. The system will improve ...

Managing multi-level risks ranging from the fiscal/personnel resources to fluctuating material/production costs have always been challenges due to the integrated nature of Air Force (AF) with governmental and industrial partners. Establishing a quantitative framework that provides basis for making informed decisions on these pressing issues can greatly impact how Air Force strategically allocate v ...

Petal is a novel bio-solar proposal to generate power using plant photosynthetic proteins combined to nanotubes bonded to a conductive substrate. The use of this architecture should allow for high efficiencies in the capture and harvest of photons and the generation of solar power in a very flexible format. This format will allow for scaling from micro to industrial scales.

Durable and robust large-area ultrathin CNT sheets can be produced from pristine CNT sheets following proprietary CNT purification and densification processes. The resulting CNT sheets are free-standing, flexible, durable, robust, ultrathin (< 5 µm) and lightweight (~6 g per m2). They withstand corrosion and heat and are superior at shielding EMI (effectiveness >= 55 dB in the X band).

American Semiconductor’s programmable forearm worn hand and finger heating system (ForeWarm™) implements advanced flexible electronic and printed heater materials in an innovative stretchable wearable system. The ForeWarm system increases hand and finger temperatures to improve dexterity and finger strength in cold air exposure. A warfighter wearing the ForeWarm system is able to perform compl ...

Software defined radios (SDRs) have redefined many areas of modern electronics, from enabling reconfigurable communications to rapid prototyping of new electronic support concepts. However, current implementations of SDRs are limited by the underlying electronic approaches used to realize them. Herein, we describe a novel photonically-enabled SDR (PESDR) that utilized the inherently broadband natu ...

In this SBIR effort we will develop an ultra-compact, high-speed, low RIN and high-power transmitter for high-performance RF photonic link applications based on our cutting-edge lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) modulator. In phase I, we will design, fabricate and characterize a low Vp, push-and-pull LNOI modulator. We will study the optical couplings at the laser/modulator/fiber interfaces to a ...

In this Phase I Air Force SBIR program, Phase Sensitive Innovations seeks deployment of a hyperspectral microwave photonic radiometer operating full band at V-Band (50-75 GHz) and/or G-Band (110-300 GHz) with 1 GHz spectral resolution on a 6U CubeSat bus in polar orbit for remote sensing applications. Our payload consumes about 2U, while 4U are available for avionics (e.g. attitude control, power, ...