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Due to the remarkable benefits provided by 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) networks, military interest in such technology has consistently grown. However, preplanned base station locations with tall towers and directionally-optimized antennas are not tactically useful. Therefore, in order for the military to leverage commercial wireless technologies, these technologies must be adapted for a ...

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes a novel technique to subtract background spectra from the spectra of interest and to then combine the LIBS and Raman spectra for remote explosive detection. Our approach uses support vector machines with transductive inference for training. Based on our experience we anticipate a 95% correct identification of explosive vs. non-explosive material. Further, our calcul ...

Until recently, gas lasers were the only technology that could provide the powers required for Directed Energy (DE) applications, such as providing area protection to Army forces against rockets, artillery, and mortars. Recent advances in solid state lasers have shown their potential for power scaling to DE levels, and their lack of expendables is major advantage over gas systems. To date, the sol ...

HUMINT-specialized technologies (e.g., CI/HUMINT Information Management System (CHIMS), CI/HUMINT Automated Tool Set (CHATS)) provide soldiers with tools that help them capture, disseminate and reason about the information they collect. While these tools can help identify inconsistencies in source testimony, this activity still requires time and the expertise of the HUMINT collector to effectively ...

A high voltage stability electrolyte (Phoenix Innovation) is combined with high voltage stability electrodes (A123Systems) to produce the next generation of high rate, high capacity lithium batteries. In addition to exceptional electrochemical performance, the novel electrolyte, which contains no carbonates, is nonflammable and inherently stable to thermal runaway. As such, these new batteries w ...

GPS technology provides a warfighter in unfamiliar territory with up-to-date location data. However, in dense urban and heavily canopied environments, or in the presence of external interference, the effectiveness of GPS-based navigational systems can be severely compromised. Warfighters require a navigational system capable of providing localization data and improving situational awareness even u ...

This proposal addresses the Army SBIR program objective to develop and demonstrate GPS receiver improvements for ground users to optimize their positioning performance in urban applications. The proposed enhanced system (whose full configuration is shown in Figure 1 below) consists of (i) the Mayflower “NavAssure” SAASM GPS receiver; and (ii) receiver software enhancements in order to mitigate ...

This proposal drastically reduces the existing power dissipation of low noise amplifiers within phase array systems. We intend to use an innovative and novel modification to a standard topology to achieve excellent performance with small size and mismatch tolerance. Such a novel use of current sharing in a balanced amplifier topology, along with a metamorphic HEMT (mHEMT) technology will result in ...

In this Phase I SBIR program Infoscitex is proposing to develop a biomimetic energy absorptive smart armor system to protect our troops and their light armor vehicles against both conventional and unconventional explosion threats. Our approach involves designing and fabricating a variable modulus ceramic face plate in which coupled piezoelectric ceramics and electroactive polymers enable an immedi ...

One obstacle to the increased use of smart weapons and unmanned air vehicles is a lack of appropriate data to train current or contemplated onboard automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. Generating synthetic data is an appealingly simple solution, but this requires a simulator that can generate data (image/non-image) of sufficient fidelity to ensure correct ATR training. Unfortunately, synthe ...