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Multibeam is developing a unique low-energy maskless e-beam lithography technology. The technology enables the patterning of Radiation Hardened Integrated Circuits (RHICs) with significantly lower cost and extendibility to future technology generations (e.g. 32nm feature size). These advanced RHICs will have improved performance, size, weight, power, and thermal characteristics. This effort i ...

BOT proposes project codenamed DTRAcrete an innovative FR UHPC that is industrial-scalable for low-cost, locally-sourced, fast production, cast-in-situ, deployable for various regions/countries with US military presence. These are the showcased features: Economized materials DTRAcrete will re-introduce coarse aggregates. DTRAcrete will use less steel fibers. Total material cost savings ...

The objective for the proposed effort is to develop a robust, effective, and deterministic/stochastic means to characterize blast effects from cased explosives pertaining to computing responses of structural components. This also includes creation of appropriate engineering aids/software/algorithms for transforming these blast effects into structural loads suitable for incorporation into high-fid ...

While many applications may have access to harvestable energy in the form of solar radiation (or other ambient light), wind, environmental vibration, or wave motion, not all do. In this proposal, RMD targets the most challenging applications, sensors that must operate for many months or years and which have undependable or no access to environmental energy. These sensors need a self contained, com ...

This project offers two powerful and efficient solutions to solve the mounting problems in design of radiation hard electronics: a range of ultra hard, high performance, sequential and combinatorial logic blocks based on the new, and enormously effective, LEAP RHBD layout methodology, and an accurate and efficient analysis, design, and simulation solution for single events. The Layout design ...

The integrated Cheetah Traks and Virtual Inertial Navigation System (V-INS) units will create a denied GPS navigation system capable of tracking unit locations and maintain that accuracy across a range of dynamics and environmental conditions. The target system is targeted to contain less than four components (IMU, computer, communication unit and display) and adds minimal weight to the user.

ISL in Phase 1 will calculate electromagnetic source signatures for both nuclear and non-nuclear underground tests (UGTs). We will also establish methods and computer algorithms for calculating the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by the detonation, at any receiver location, as it propagates through varied subsurface geology. We currently have in-house code for calculating dipolar E and B sourc ...

Alameda Applied Sciences Corp proposes to develop a fast pulse, directed, fast neutron source to detect special nuclear materials at large stand off. Our source offers a

Until now gamma radiation detection has required large single crystals of sensitive materials that are difficult to produce consistently on an industrial scale. In collaboration with a research group at the University of Texas at Arlington, Agiltron proposes to develop a new class of nanocomposite scintillator materials. The radiation detection characteristics of the synthetic nanoparticles in the ...

High-resolution scintillation crystals and crystal arrays are important components of current and future handheld and arrayed detectors (used for DOD/DTRA applications), and scintillation spectrometers (routinely used in high energy physics research, medical imaging, diffraction, homeland security, nuclear waste clean-up, nuclear treaty verification and safeguards, and geological exploration). Un ...