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This SBIR Phase II effort will build on the AeroAstro Phase I STDN radio development to create an extremely small and lightweight SGLS satellite radio with an optional interface to a current US cryptographic system. This SBIR Phase II effort will take the development program through production of a protoflight model. The modular radio design envisioned consists of four 3”x2”x1” modules plus ...

A tool has been developed, Software Pixels On Target (SPOT), that provides a decision maker with the capability to visualize the effect of sensor performance for the detection of objects of interest during Phase I efforts for the Novel Airborne Video Sensors SBIR. Video data was obtained from a fixed-wing aircraft for software validation. Image processing software was developed that showed the e ...

This proposal intends to show the systematic approach initially developed during Phase I of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) entitled Knowledge Flow in Command and Control (C2) as applied to a new DARPA research effort, the Augmented Cognition Cockpit (CogPit). While the Phase 1 Knowledge Flow in C2 research focused on modeling and simulating command and control in the Tactical Flag ...

Several design platforms are being considered for hypersonic vehicles for various DOD applications. The most probable candidate for air-breathing hypersonic propulsion is the supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet. At the inlet to a ramjet or scramjet engine, shocks may impinge on the surface of the vehicle, resulting in boundary layer separation from the vehicle surface and loss of total press ...

Luna Innovations has developed for NIST a low-cost, yet high resolution acoustic sensor system capable of determining ten micro-degree changes in a water path caused by clinical medical radiation devices. A system will be delivered to NIST for their evaluation and testing. The sensors are external to the water and play a negligible role in error sources from thermal transfer in contrast to current ...

Power generation, power distribution and electric propulsion on ships and aerospace vehicles could be made smaller, lighter, more efficient, more versatile, and lower maintenance by operating these systems—partly or entirely—at cryogenic temperatures. Our goal is to demonstrate the advantages of cryogenic operation in regard to electronic components, specifically semiconductor devices (power d ...

A need exists to develop cost effective and reliable submersible cage technology for exposed aquaculture. The team assembled as part of this SBIR incorporates JPS Industries, Great Bay Aquafarms and the University of New Hampshire. In Phase I, a design will be developed based on concepts known to work in the industry. Concepts to be investigated include a cage constructed around HDPE pipe, with ...

The DIF project addresses a significant impediment to broad industry acceptance of dataflow technology in high performance computing, namely the lack of a standard language for dataflow application programs. Despite the rich body of Academic and Defense Department sponsored R&D in dataflow programming and computing technology, data flow programming has not been widely adopted by the parallel compu ...

The proposed SBIR Phase II program would implement a multi-sensor system for the detection of submarines at close range in littoral waters. During Phase I, NanoSonic examined several options and downselected these options to a single implementation. In cooperation with a major DoD contractor intimately involved in distributed littoral battlespace sensor systems, NanoSonic will build a prototype s ...

This SBIR program would develop a process for the integration of electrically networked sensors and actuators with physically large composite military structures and platforms. NanoSonic would use its patented electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) process to form elastomeric, electrically conductive patterned interconnects in free-standing plies to allow the interfacing of multiple distributed sensor ...