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The ideal head-mounted display (HMD) would be one that preserves situational awareness by offering a panoramic view of the users surroundings with high see-through and provides high-resolution, wide-field-of-view color imagery. For soldier applications, such a system should also be unobtrusive; that is, compact, light-weight, and comfortable, where comfort comes from having an adequate exit pupil, ...

In Phase-I of the project we constructed a unique ROIC design based on our Amplifier-Shared-Dual-Band CTIA (ASDBC) technology to address the problems experienced by the existing ROICs. In Phase-II, we will refine and complete the design, manufacture the ROIC, fabricate the FPA, and test the completed product. One application issue presented by the DBCHI is the large gain variation across the array ...

Efficient electrically pumped eye-safe lasers for battlefield applications require high brightness, spectrally stabilized fiber-coupled pump lasers emitting near 1500 nm. Existing 1500 nm pump lasers are spectrally unstabilized, have poor efficiency and brightness and require cooling. Using new diode quantum-well designs and high thermal and optical coupling approaches, we will demonstrate a new g ...

Welkin Sciences proposes to build the Direct L-band Converter (DLBC) designed during Phase I, which has a digital up-converter (DUC) function for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. The DLBC design also provides two very important additional capabilities that go beyond the functionality solicited by the SBIR A10-016 topic description. First, the L-band 950 MHz to 1950 MHz ...

Modeling engine and drivetrain (i.e., propulsion system) dynamics and control is a vital part of modern rotorcraft simulation as they are closely coupled with the rotor dynamics and impact the aircraft performance and transient response. The current engine modeling method for real time rotorcraft simulation relies heavily on empirical estimation and, hence, is severely limited by the availability ...

To address the Army need for nonmetallic/metallic oil debris-monitoring sensors for use on rotorcraft transmissions and turboshaft engines, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to complete the development of a new in line Electro-Sieve Oil Debris Analyzer (ESODA). ESODA is based on an innovative sensor concept using dielectric properties to reliably identify the debris material. In Phase I P ...

Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI), with its teammates, University of Colorado and Boeing, proposes to leverage its collective expertise with radar systems design, Electromagnetics (EM) modeling, antenna design, advanced processing architectures, and radar signal processing algorithms to research, identify, and architect a short range THz imaging radar for aircraft navigation. The THz-gap extends fro ...

LaunchPoint Technologies has developed an optimized brushless electric motor with higher power density than any commercially available motor. Once fully developed, this motor will make smaller and lighter electric propulsion available for use in advanced programs such as electric and hybrid Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Small Organic Precision Munitions (SOPM) and electric-propelled GMLRS and TOW ...

Polar Rain proposes to design and develop end to end name entry extraction system for degraded handwritten documents. We will develop a new data and computational model that combines both image features and language model to extract name entities in degraded documents. Our proposed approach brings innovative solution to work on degraded Arabic printed/handwritten documents. We will investigate how ...

This project has two objectives: bridge the gap between subscale and full-scale insensitive munitions (IM) experiments, and identify an optimal set of IM subscale tests. Size, shape, and boundary conditions are critical to the outcome of IM tests. Consequently, subscale experiments are insufficient to determine IM properties of munitions. Full-scale experiments are expensive, and can be performed ...