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Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) and Dr. Michael F. Becker of the University of Texas at Austin propose to develop, design and integrate a number of diverse technologies to create an innovative optical fluorescence sensor on a chip. The proposed chip sensor employs a unique thin film structure which provides both a greatly enhanced fluorescence for molecules situated near the ...

The objective of this research effort is to design a mobile robotic platform, and the related operator interfaces required for remote operation, which enhance a soldier's abilities to accomplish mission goals. This system will be modular in design, scaleable, low cost and rugged. The size and weight of these platforms will range form a meter long and 200 pounds, to a few centimeters long and abo ...

"Fundamental defense applications ranging from communications to remote sensing systems exploit the information content of acoustic electromagnetic signals and waves. In practice, both intentional and unintentional nonlinear interactions play significantperformance determining roles in the systems responsible for generation, transmission, reception, processing, and analysis of the signals.Analyti ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II Program will demonstrate a magnetic field sensor device of high sensitivity using spin-dependent tunnel (SDT) materials. The tunnel materials will be developed with guidance from the state of the art realistic atomistic modeling and aided by state of the art nanostructural characterization techniques of 3-D atom probe and high-resolution transmissio ...

This Phase I STTR effort involves harnessing the power of accelerated corrosion for the purpose of safely neutralizing small arms caches. A key part of the fight against irregular forces is finding their hidden small arms caches and either removing or destroying them. When removal is not possible or practical, destruction in place is the alternative. During Phase I, Lynntech, in collaboration w ...

Knexient proposes POINT, a processing system for OSI on the Web. Specifically, POINT's text processing engine finds the primary or main event in online new stories and relates the event to its location and time of occurrence. The location of the event is converted into Google's KML language and presented as a text overlay on GoogleEarth, enabling military image analysts to quickly aggregate rele ...

This project will investigate the high speed modulation properties of monolithically integrated coupled-cavity VCSEL arrays with the aim of developing manufacturable, very high speed (>20GHz) directly modulated integrated laser arrays which have very low power dissipation (

Knexient proposes POINT2, a processing system for OSI on the Web. Specifically, POINT2’s text processing engine finds primary types—main events or entities discussed in online news. When the primary type is an event, it is related to its location and time of occurrence. The location of the primary event is converted into lat/lon coordinates and presented on KnexientGlobe, a custom geospatia ...

The US Ferroics / Colorado State University team proposes to utilize it''s mature expertise gained in materials deposition and characterization at RF / microwave frequencies to investigate a series of low-loss electrode / metalization technologies for hetero-ferroic RF devices. The first component is to generate a data base of metalizations on perovskite materials. Together with band structure ba ...

This program is to develop multi-layered,light weight armor alloys systems that offer improved fragmentation and armor piercing performance as compared to any other monolithic structures. Such alloys and laminated configuration will be developed by utilizing advanced computational techniques to assist in the development of complimentary alloys that would provide an optimal combination of hardness ...