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In this Phase I SBIR program UES will develop an economic fabrication process to produce high optical quality infrared (IR) windows for reconnaissance window applications. The state-of-the art reconnaissance window are lacking in optical quality and/or durability to withstand operational environments for extended periods of time. Also, the availability of such advanced window materials in large si ...

United States intelligence analysts of today and tomorrow are faced with a paramount challenge of maintaining situation awareness in the midst of an ever-growing and changing capacity of available data. As the incoming data streams continue to expand, so do the expectations and requests placed on the analysts. Layered Sensing offers a promising solution to meeting the Intelligence, Reconnaissance ...

Due to the fairly recent acceptance of software metrics collection techniques, comparative measures of software attributes such as complexity, usability, and quality are not being used for the evaluation of end-product source code. Unfortunately, the problems found are often due to an overly complex or faulty design specification requiring a post-implementation redesign phase. OTI proposes to shor ...

The design of future Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) requires detailed understanding of unsteady flows around flexible lifting surfaces with strong interactions between separation and transition at low Reynolds numbers. Since flexure often involves large deformations exceeding the Kolmogorov scale by orders-of-magnitude, methods employing moving and deforming computational grids may require excessive re ...

Nanoscale infrared detectors are emerging as a potentially powerful alternative to traditional infrared detector technologies. The University of New Mexico has developed dots in a double well (DDWELL) quantum dot infrared photodetectors which have a spectral responsivity that can be tuned by controlling the bias voltage applied. In this Phase II effort, Polaris Sensor and UNM would fabricate a g ...

In this Phase I work, UES will advance its current patented technology towards a novel ceramic process to produce high quality polycrystalline YAG fibers that meet the required properties for high power fiber laser applications. We show that YAG is far superior to silica as a material choice for fiber lasers, using a computational evaluation. UES has, over the past 5 years, developed a patented te ...

For mission critical data storage on systems operating in natural space and nuclear weapons environments, the use of radiation hardened (RH) non-volatile memory (NVM) is imperative. Today's complex computer controlled electronic systems use NVM to store critical data for proper operation. This typically includes configuration parameters which allow the system to return to a known configuration a ...

For mission critical data storage on systems operating in natural space and nuclear weapons environments, the use of radiation hardened (RH) non-volatile memory (NVM) is imperative. Today’s complex computer controlled electronic systems use NVM to store critical data for proper operation. This typically includes configuration parameters which allow the system to return to a known configuration ...

TDKC’s Advanced Distributed Visualization-based Satellite Resource Management Tool (ADVISR) includes a requirements analysis, cognitive task analysis, technology evaluation, concept prototyping, commercialization planning, and real-world scenario derivation in order to derive an operationally-focused solution that is cost effective, demonstrable and most of all operationally practical. As part o ...

The objective of the proposed work is to validate the concept of an injection moldable in-situ reinforced barium alumino silicate (IRBAS) missile radome using a Hotblox pre-ceramic siloxane binder system. In Phase I, ATC will optimize formulation, mixing and molding process development. ATC will work with Lockheed Martin to develop sintering processes and to characterize the material. At the e ...