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ABSTRACT: The objective of this sequential Phase II SBIR is to deliver a Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL-6) airborne HF, VHF and UHF RF direction finding system that is suitable for integration with SUAS and to demonstrate it in a realistic airborne environment against representative signals. This proposed effort leverages the completed Army Phase I SBIR that demonstrated accurate DF in field ...

ABSTRACT: McQ Inc. developed a prototype Wireless Time-synchronized Event Control System (WTECS) for the 846th Test Squadron operating the Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) at Holloman Air Force Base. The current state of WTECS is TRL6 and MRL 9, while the desired end state of the transition effort is TRL7 and MRL 10. Improvements such as developing a database for the base station will all ...

Mentis Sciences (Mentis) is providing Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) line to produce a Radome Assembly (RA). Mentis focus is to assure all elements of the production process approaches a Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 8. This effort requires developing processes and Design of Experiments (DOE) for controlling each element of production to assure quality and cost goals for meeting LRIP. ...

The objective of this phase II STTR program is twofold: (1) to design, prototype, and commercialize differential on-wafer probes for characterizing devices in the 140220 GHz and 220320 GHz bands, and (2) to engineer the geometry and material of the micromachined probe tip to enable robust, consistent, and low-resistance electrical contact to devices with various contact pad metallizations, includi ...

The area of thin film growth has progressed rapidly, producing many high performance new materials which require accuracy of their atomic composition to perform as expected. Any method to provide real time in situ information about the elemental composition of the growing surface is highly valuable for these new, complicated materials. Utilizing a new instrument design, the Phase I project team ...

Explosive devices are an ever present danger to the modern warfighter. These devices can take a wide range of forms from hand grenades to mortars to improvised explosive devices (IED). The pressure wave from an explosive blast can cause severe internal and external injury to a warfighter, often in the form of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Currently, those who are within 50m of an explosion, even ...

Automated testing will need to become an integral part in the PMA-281 T&E program and an automated testing program needs to be developed and implemented. Since PMA-281 programs will comply with the OSD UCS Architecture, which is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based, the PMA-281 T&E program/automated testing strategy will need to consider automated testing throughout the entire SOA testing lif ...

Legacy copper-based power distribution and degaussing cables will not be able to meet the future requirements of Navy ships and submarines. While cable systems employing high-temperature superconductors (HTS) have the potential to meet this need, further development work is required to improve the performance and increase the technology readiness level of key system components. The proposed work f ...

The bulk filtering algorithm is designed to suppress or eliminate uninteresting objects from a sensor data stream allowing sensor management systems to focus finite resources more effectively on objects of interest. During Phase II Vadum will carry out a series of demonstrations showing the incremental integration of their bulk filter approach within a high fidelity lab environment. Vadum will a ...

ABSTRACT: There is the growing demand for user terminals for mobile satellite telecommunication (SATCOM) applications including K/Ka dual-band SATCOM for unmanned and manned aircraft platforms. Nuvotronics is pleased to propose a two-year SBIR program to the Air Force for the development of a fully-electronically steerable array capable of scanning beams from zenith to near the horizon to replace ...