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It is critical to extract maximum information from IR images for target detection, identification and classification systems. The physical information in an image is contained in basically four parameters namely the intensity, phase, polarization andwavelength of the received light. Besides acquiring intensity variations, rapid collection of corresponding polarization signatures at desired wavel ...

The goal for this effort is to deliver a prototype of a rugged and portable (man-packable) shape shifting robotic platform. Our platform has the ability to not only change shape to gain access and function efficiently within confined spaces in urbanenvironments, but has the means of changing locomotion to be able to traverse more difficult terrain. This platform has polymorphic locomotion/ maneuve ...

Equipment exposed to chemical or biological warfare agents must be decontaminated to allow its continued use while assuring the safety of personnel. Current decontamination systems either are corrosive or produce hazardous byproducts. A self-dominatingcoating that could deactivate the threat agents by a catalytic reaction would be an ideal solution. In Phase I TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) successfully ...

Interferometric SAR techniques have been successfully demonstrated to be able to locate pixel scattering centers in three dimensions: however the relative location within a scattering volume does not provide further information that can be used to makemeasurements. Similarly polarimetric techniques allow scattering behavior to be determined averaged over the entire volume. However, by the use of a ...

ClearMark Systems has developed a sensitive and non-destructive inspection technology for identifying the point of origin of semiconductor chips.We capture the identifying information by analyzing markings on the silicon die or the chip package made by laser marking tools at the fabrication facility.Our Phase I effort has successfully distinguished markings that were made by a target tool versus s ...

We present the design of a small, portable, microwave cold atomic clock that meets the frequency stability requirement of

In Phase I, Riverside investigated the need for increased access to NCDC storm data using web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to connect severe weather and socioeconomic information. The focus of Phase I was to design and validate an architecture that specifies the methods through which the NCDC Storm data can be programmatically accessed, processed, and displayed in easy to use interfac ...

The goal of this project is to develop, prototype, and experimentally validate a new Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) capable of providing sub-centimeter positioning accuracy for quasi-static scientific, survey, and structural health monitoring application. The main feature of the proposed DGNSS solution is that it leverages publically available GNSS reference data from exis ...

ColdQuanta proposes the development, fabrication, testing and demonstration of a free-space microshutter based on MEMS technology. The microshutter head will provide extinction ratios exceeding 70 dB and shutter transition times below 10 us, and it will be smaller than any other free space shutter technology currently available. The proposed shutter leverages prior experience with the successful d ...

We propose the development of a near infrared/short wavelength infrared (NIR/SWIR) sensor based on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) designed for room-temperature operation in the 0.4 to 1.3 micron spectral range for the next generation of night vision goggles (NVGs), weapon sights, and handheld or airborne systems. The sensor will compete as a low cost and high perfo ...