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Continuing development and integration of high power electronics devices with smaller footprints, higher power densities, electronic propulsion, weapon, and sensor systems, requires efficient thermal management strategies. The US Navy has identified two-phase cooling systems as a viable candidate approach for heat removal from for such devices that can experience high power electronics loads durin ...

For many programs, it would be desirable to fail fast in the face of attack in order to preserve confidentiality and integrity. We propose a tool to statically rewrite binaries to increase their fragility, adding this fail-fast property. We will operate on binaries to maximize the number of programs we can protect. Binary rewriting can be applied to any program without cooperation from the compile ...

Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

This effort seeks to develop training and operational displays that optimize user reaction times, minimize cognitive load, perform attention cueing, and present large quantities of data in an understandable fashion. The Warfighter requires advances in Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) to provide a usable and optimized system for missile defense.Key requirements of such a system are a rapid developmen ...

IERUS proposes the advancement and realization of recent academic research into tracking technology.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Research seeks to correct the limitations of peridynamic theory that underestimates failure strains in ductile materials.Effort will revise and update current state of the art peridynamics models for ductile fracture expanding model to include temperature and strain rate effects while applying to the prediction of fragmentation in aluminum alloys.Peridynamics is a mesh-free theory of continuum mec ...

Optical Sciences Corporation proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of, and present a plan for, the development of an advanced thermally efficient emitter technology.The proposed concept offers the potential for a high frame rate, flickerless, broadband, large format (4k x 4k), emitter array with high apparent temperatures and efficient thermal emission. This emitter array IR projector system wil ...

IERUS Technologies proposes to develop a novel, conformal, non-uniform, ultra-wideband array.The array will mount onto next generation interceptors and provide beam steering capability across an angular range large enough to support continuous communications without reorientation requirements.The IERUS array will provide continuous communications across the targeted frequency bands.The proposed ar ...

The efficiency of future missile defense systems may be improved by increasing the interceptor vehicle payload on each launch vehicle.The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a technique, which is mass and energy efficient, for controlling the safe and precise deployment of those interceptor vehicles.Pairing programmable permanent magnets arrays with a controlled array of electromagnets in a ...

Current focal plane array (FPA) technologies for imaging in low-light conditions in the short wave infrared (SWIR) are limited by poor quantum efficiency and/or poor noise characteristics. To address this need, a new SWIR-sensitive linear-mode avalanche photodiode detector array, will be optimized for low-light imaging, fabricated, and demonstrated. Unlike existing SWIRavalanche photodiodes (APDs) ...