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A light-weight, compact, high sensitivity pulsed laser vibrometer is proposed using photo-EMF sensors for the non-contact detection and mapping of buried landmines. The fast response times (~ ns) and high sensitivity of the photo-EMF sensors allow continuous and real-time monitoring of vibration characteristics of the ground and canopy based on which the presence and species of landmines can be de ...

Based on the success of developing high sensitivity laser vibrometers for landmine detections during the Phase I program, technologies are proposed for this Phase II research program to improve further the sensitivity and accuracy in locating buried landmines as well as increases in the efficiency and speed in scanning over the minefields of interest. Approaches to achieve these goals include the ...

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Advanced technology for adaptive structures is being developed which enable advancements in distributed control and sensing for application to active suppression of ship noise in Naval operations. Advanced control systems for wide band cancellation of ship borne noise as well as reduction of reflected acoustic energy from echo ranging are considered for evaluation. Advanced methods in modern contr ...

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Unmanned aerial surveillance requires large scale deployment of UAV based 3D lidar imagers. Although lidars and altimeters have been designed for science instruments on aircraft based operations, none so far have demonstrated a wide swath 3D imaging lidar suitable for use on a UAV platform. Sigma Space has demonstrated significant advances in the area of 3D imaging, using a recently developed phot ...

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This SBIR Phase I project will develop a health and motion monitoring sensor and analysis system to support the return of military personnel with prosthetic devices to active duty. DoD is allowing increasing numbers of Soldiers with prosthetics to return to active duty if they are performance capable, minimizing the loss of their valuable core expertise to the services. There are significant cha ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have a current and future need for advanced commercially available inherently radhard primitive cell libraries to support new designs for satellites and other spacecraft. American Semiconductor Inc. proposes the use of double gated Flexfet technology for ...

Advanced Materials Technology, Inc responds to the Navy need to develop novel explosive resistant materials. These materials can be applied to ship structures to provide blast protection and mitigate damages from fragmentation. The proposed lightweight technology can also be used in advanced blast packaging systems to contain or mitigate blast effects of an accidentally detonated weapon. These m ...