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Autonodyne has been at the forefront of autonomy in aviation for two decades, applying autonomy in every aspect of aviation. The last 5 years’ efforts have brought the same avionics, autonomy, and interfaces to unmanned aviation, both for DoD and for the emerging Urban Air Mobility (UAM and Advanced Air Mobility - AAM) market. Autonodyne was hand selected by NASA/FAA to bring our expertise in Au ...

Engineered biological systems can enable the template-directed synthesis of biopolymers such as proteins and peptides with desirable material properties and functions. The cellular engine of this process, the ribosome and associated translation apparatus, drives the polymerization of hundreds to thousands of amino acid monomers into sequence-defined biopolymers with speed, efficiency, and accuracy ...

Project FORCIS investigates solutions to the challenging problem of few-shot object detection. FORCIS leverages synthetic training data generated by simulation engines which are dynamically parameterized to maximize utility to a downstream deep-learning algorithm. We explore this approach, inspired by advances in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) branch of machine learning (ML), and contrast it agai ...

Global migration reached a staggering record of over 280 million migrants in 2020, a number that has almost quadrupled over the past 60 years. The share of the world’s population that are migrants has also markedly increased, now nearing 4% of the global population. As these numbers continue to rise, it is increasingly unsustainable for researchers in the population migration modeling (PMM) comm ...

High performance infrared photodetectors and light sources that span infrared wavelengths from 2 to 14 microns and beyond are critical to DoD. At the longer wavelengths these devices demand stringent cooling requirements, which add size, weight, power consumption and cost. In this program we are developing tunnel diodes based on epsilon near zero (ENZ) metal-insulator-metal (MIM) rectenna structur ...

Implementation of multiple parallel current-sharing filaments in high-voltage photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) has been shown to be very effective in scaling the current handling capability of the devices. This approach increases the active current-switching area on the surface of the device to handle higher total current. In this effort, we will develop a vertical geometry PCSS that ...

High performance underwater operation with low probability of detection in challenging areas can provide significant value across many naval missions. There is an ongoing desire for greater range, endurance, and speed for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Bio-informed UUV designs offer potential improvements, particularly in swimming speed. Boston Engineering is proud to offer “bio-robotics c ...

This proposal is submitted in response to the DoD’s need for a low-power, US-sourced, ultra-wideband VCO designed to work over -55ºC to 125ºC, with high level of programmability and reconfigurability for different applications. This proposal describes a novel design that meet these requirements, building on more than 10 years of prior R&D in this area.

Although metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have demonstrated capabilities for producing complex geometries beyond those of traditional manufacturing of subtractive or multi-part assembly, wider AM adaptation is limited by low throughput and poor material quality. Consequently, AM fabricated parts are costly and unable to meet demand where dynamic failure is unacceptable. Triton System ...

Encapsulation materials are crucial for long-term reliability of high voltage and high temperature power device packaging as they help prevent electrical discharges in air as well as protect the devices against humidity, dirt and shock. However, the currently available commercial encapsulants are severely deficient in their high temperature performance, especially above 250C. Although several diff ...