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Instrumenting a flight path over the open ocean, such as the more than 4,000 nautical miles from Vandenberg AFB to the Marshall Islands, requires the use of some temporarily placed assets covering the planned flight path. A number of potential technologies can be applied to this problem. Each comes with strengths and weaknesses in terms of development time, development cost, cost to deploy, cost t ...

This effort involves the unique layered, or material gradient, approach to the development of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank suitable for the containment of liquid oxygen. New epoxy and urethane resins systems are developed for performing well in a high strain and cryogenic environment. The new matrix resins are combined with filament wound carbon fiber layers, woven fabrics, woven preforms ...

We propose generating transgenic insects with improved nutrition for humans and livestock. The primary deliverable for Phase I will be expression of a genetic marker in the host insect and demonstration of enhanced essential nutrients in insect cell line...

The objective of this effort is the design of a new TWT transmitter power supply incorporating a modern, elegant and innovative high efficiency/performance High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) architecture and design. The baseline architecture and circuit de...

Hypersonic cruise vehicles provide a necessary pathway for effective intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. Hypersonic structures are subjected to extreme aerodynamic heating, and current material options are expensive, complicated, an...

Orbital Research Inc. will build off their Phase I level of effort to design an integrated guidance package that consists of a CAS, IMU and GEU. These three subsystems will be packaged for a 40mm interceptor application that is gun launched and flies in...

The goal of this DARPA Phase II SBIR program is to evaluate an implantable system for recording myoelectric signals from residual muscles of individuals with forearm amputations. The signals will be wirelessly coupled to an external receiver for controlling prostheses. Compared to surface electrodes, this system will provide: more channels for prosthesis control from a larger number of muscles in ...

The Airborne Planning Application (APA) provides an architecture and framework that enables the incremental addition of automation and electronic decision support to the airborne operations planning process, which is currently largely manual. The develop...

The DoD faces mounting costs for integrated circuits built with advanced technology. Our proposal addresses mixed-signal ASIC design costs and fabrication costs, notably photomask costs and photolithography costs. The ADONIS 1D design methodology has been demonstrated at technologies ranging from 130nm to 16nm. In Phase I of the program, we used ADONIS to design a reference circuit a high-speed c ...

The solution of systems of both linear and non-linear partial differential equations (PDE) is important to many scientific problems, such as magnetohydrodynamic and non-linear acoustics. Application areas include computational electromagnetics, fusion en...