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eSpin Technologies will design the scale up machine to produce novel high performance separator for lithium primary batteries. The process will be developed to produce novel separator and a variants which has the potential of a significantly higher volumetric efficiency for electrolyte storage capacity and kinetics to distribute electrolyte flow within nanoporous channel efficiently. This new sepa ...

Advances in the capabilities of the US Navy’s fleet of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) have led to an array of assets capable of executing a number of operational missions. The Navy is investing in extending the reach of these assets to provide mission capabilities from longer range and over longer duration. The FDECO Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) program addresses one challenge of curren ...

An advanced degaussing system utilizing high temperature superconducting (HTS) cables is being developed by the the Navy for application to new ship systems. The proposed system reduces the system weight and installed cost over degaussing system designs that use copper cables. HTS cables operate in a cryogenic environment, and are housed in a vacuum-jacketed conduit. The terminations for HTS cab ...

Hypersonic vehicles need compact, high temperature capable power sources since batteries are not sufficiently compact and require insulation. A thermoelectric (TE) energy-harvesting system converts thermal energy into electricity by taking advantage of the temperature difference between two surfaces. The objective of this effort is to increase the temperature limits of current TE materials from ap ...

The Modular Clandestine Communications System is proposed to enable friendly platforms to communicate acoustically through the water without compromising their presence or location. The MCCS signals and processing algorithms both have a modular structure that enables it to accommodate platforms of varying capabilities including receiver assets and computational power. In addition to this scalabili ...

Advanced workflow and workspace visualization techniques are required to support goal-oriented decision-making in cross-domain system of systems (SoS) engineering applications. To address this need, we propose to design, develop, and evaluate a rich Visu...

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes to develop a unique ionic monopropellant thruster for next generation DACS that uses an electrically-assisted ignition technique to generate rapid thrust impulses with short ignition delay times. The thruster will produce these short delay times with low power consumption using a novel monopropellant decomposition strategy and a high performance electrode arrangemen ...

Biomimetic technology, a processing method based on biological neural systems, offers an approach to acoustic processing which is noise and reverberation tolerant, acquires targets quickly, localizes accurately, and is well suited for urban theaters of operation. The Phase I project demonstrated the feasibility of the applied technology for identification and localization of acoustic targets such ...

Science Research Laboratory (SRL) proposes to develop a novel uncooled thermal-to-visible transducer (TVT) that will revolutionize long-wavelength-infrared (LWIR) imaging. The technology utilizes as a sensor a Fabry-Perot interferometer that is heated by absorbing LWIR radiation, which changes its reflectivity in the visible. Reflected light, imaged onto a CCD or CMOS array, provides an image of ...

In this Phase II SBIR Army Program, Physical Sciences Inc. will design, build, and test a novel high-gain, quasi-volumetric, directive antenna array comprising advanced single radiating elements that were demonstrated in Phase I. These single quasi-volumetric elements provide more directive pattern, greater bandwidth, and higher gain than conventional dipole antennas in less than half the linear ...