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Optical power beaming systems have the potential to revolutionize energy supply for airborne military platforms, allowing networks of unmanned aircraft to operate aloft indefinitely. To ensure safe and efficient optical power transfer, receiving optics must be designed to provide rigorous photon containment. Stray reflections and scattered light must be minimized in order to ensure safety for pers ...

DARPA is interested in technologies which enable safe optical power beaming systems.  High-efficiency wireless power transmission by a directed optical beam will greatly enhance military capabilities by enabling a multi-node wireless energy web.  We are developing high efficiency semiconductor lasers at 1550 nm which are directly suitable for power beaming.  Our laser array technology is at an ...

Food irradiation technology has attracted more attention in the past decade given that it can provide a sustainable solution on how to address pathogen contamination in food. X-ray irradiation has several advantages compared to other irradiation technologies including superior penetrating quality compared to electron beams, and considerably larger dose rate compared to gamma rays. However, the low ...

This project will establish the clear feasibility of bonded GaN-GaAs heterostructures to enable wide-bandgap heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an unprecedented combination of high power, speed, and linearity at high frequencies (>10 GHz). Over the past decade, GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have matured in reliability and performance and set the standard in high- ...

In the proposed program, we will develop and implement a secure framework for low-power acquisition, processing and analysis of physiological and environmental sensor signals from wearable devices. The multi-parameter signals will be used to effectively monitor the warfighter’s health and operational readiness at the edge. We will accomplish the program objective by leveraging the advancements i ...

Significant technical challenges exist in the deployment of tactical autonomy for air combat and training applications. Transition efforts are developing comprehensive frameworks and autonomy infrastructure, but still face limitations in tactical performance on these systems. EpiSci’s AlphaPup program with Tactical AI will focus on ADAIR high-performance training, near-term missions such as crui ...

Heterogeneous Integrated Circuits (HIC) combine different ICs into a single package. In this DARPA Phase I SBIR, Alphacore and our partner Riscure will conduct a feasibility study to create a method of identifying which ICs are in a package through available side channels, without opening the package. A Grid-Array Side-channel Probe (GASP) system will be studied for possible development, comprisin ...

We will continue to develop our Phase I translation software for converting legacy C code into Go, building mature software that is practicable and theoretically sound. To demonstrate the maturity of our translation software, we will translate the COBOL compiler GnuCOBOL from C to Go. At a very high level, our Phase II efforts will consist of technical improvements to our lifting tools for program ...

Dragoon’s successful Phase I effort resulted in a preliminary design for an Inexpensive Long Endurance Drone (ILED).  The current approach to designing and manufacturing unmanned systems has resulted in exquisite assets which are aren’t economically viable when considering mission sets where attrition is guaranteed.  In order to manufacture a highly capable platform at a low cost, a novel ap ...

Kestrel Technology is extending its Axe toolkit to build a lightweight, easy-to-use tool that can prove important safety, security, and correctness properties of software binaries, such as those used in off-the-shelf embedded systems. The tool combines the strengths of several of our existing tools: our Axe Lifter, which can transform x86 binaries into a logical form for further analysis; our Axe ...