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ABSTRACT: Physical Sciences Inc. proposes to design, develop, and demonstrate two types of affordable, portable, non-invasive, real-time sensors to assess over time the chemical and physical health of solid rocket motors without affecting the motor"s integrity. In Phase II, we will build upon our Phase I success to develop a sensor to monitor specific gas species that are markers of the chemical ...

ABSTRACT: When Air Force applications or data reside in a third-party"gray"cloud, trustworthiness can be compromised due to lack of control over the underlying infrastructure. The user must treat the cloud as a black box that cannot be instrumented or modified. To support verifiable access to applications and data residing in gray cloud infrastructures, we will develop a framework that treats the ...

ABSTRACT: In this Phase II SBIR proposal Physical Sciences Inc., in collaboration with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Q-Peak Inc., describes the development of a compact, efficient 1064 nm laser illuminator to support 3D imaging applications utilizing Geiger Mode avalanche photodiode-based imagers. During the Phase I program, a LADAR model, utilizing the output from a Laboratory prototype design of ...

ABSTRACT: Auriga will complete the development of an innovative linearized K-band High Power Amplifier (HPA) in 24 months with one additional month for the final report. This innovative approach is expected to bring revolutionary performance (close to 40% PAE under QPSK). Auriga"s HPA will have a linearizer integrated in the MMIC and packaged, requiring no other interface or digital chips to acco ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this work is to demonstrate a prototype of an innovative method to protect military space microelectronics from unauthorized tampering. The method will employ the joint cooperation of multiple countermeasures that operate at several levels of system abstraction. The target is a class of embedded systems that are implemented using high-density FPGAs. A dual-use commercia ...

ABSTRACT:This Phase II SBIR effort will focus on the design and fabrication of a wide-format mid-wave infrared scene projector (with 1000x500 pixels, each 40 um on a side) based on VLSI-Membrane-Mirror-Light-Modulator (VLSI-MMLM) technology.They key technologies that will be developed in this program to make this project successful include: (1) reticule stitching of the required large-area high-vo ...

ABSTRACT: Triton Systems has demonstrated a variable light transmission technology that will be optimized in the proposed Phase II for use in a military visor application. There is an ongoing need to substitute two separate visors that provide clear and dark transmission with a single lens capable of fast transition, wide light transmission contrast range, fail clear operation and other specific ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this Phase II is to develop a working prototype of the HADRian tool that can assist SOC (Sensing Operations Center) Operators, the persons responsible for the display of information within an EOC (Emergency Operations Center) COP (Common Operational Picture) during a Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) operation in providing information for the COP to suppo ...

ABSTRACT: With the growing demands for Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) operations, it becomes increasingly important to determine how to best train RPA crewmembers. However, little is known regarding the effectiveness tradeoffs of training environments. Current tools and processes for evaluating effectiveness lack the flexibility and automation required for providing quick, clear, and useful guid ...

ABSTRACT: Busek has successfully demonstrated key technical features of an autonomous, long-term storable, radiation tolerant propulsion module with no moving parts that is suitable for deorbiting small spacecraft. Critical properties of a new, high melting point, ionic liquid propellant were measured, confirming it as an excellent candidate for use in electrospray thrusters. The electrospray ...