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Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...

Dual Sense proposes to develop a cross deck pendant (CDP) inspection sensor based on detecting ultrasonic guided wave echoes arising from any broken wires in the CDP cable. The proposed sensor will be designed to be rugged, compact, man-portable, immune to EMI, and able to work in all weather conditions on a ship deck.

American Energy Technologies Company, a woman-owned small business concern out of Arlington Heights, Illinois will conduct the modeling, technology development and prototyping of the specialized carbon-based ram jet nozzle inserts aimed at maximizing the combustion performance of new-generation solid rocket fuels. The primary objective of the inserts will be to prevent condensation of oxide phase ...

The goal of this proposed Phase II effort is to design and demonstrate a monolithic architecture for two-dimensional, all-electronic beam steering of a high power, mid-infrared laser. A photonic integrated circuit architecture is described which contains a widely tunable, mid-infrared quantum cascade laser integrated with a phase-adjustable amplifier array and a high efficiency grating outcoupler. ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...

There is a clear need to improve weather forecasting accuracy. The greatest contributions to forecast uncertainty is a lack of meteorological observations over remote areas and areas experiencing pronounced convective activity. StratoSolutions’ new high-altitude balloon (HAB) platform with mini-dropsonde is a disruptive new uncrewed meteorological observation data source able to collect data at ...

A Free Space Optical Communication Systems (FSOCS) enables broadband inter-connectivity among mobile platforms.  A key feature of an FSOCS is the low probability of intercept and the low probability of detection (LPI-LPD).  Furthermore, it is unhindered by RF jamming or frequency contention.   When augmented by a passive range detection capability, it also enables precise location knowledge, a ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are advanced adsorbents with applicability to military and civilian applications including but not limited to chemical biological protection, chemical warfare agent decontamination, toxic industrial chemical remediation, medical oxygen delivery, and energy storage. These materials have been produced in ton-scale quantities and have seen commercial use in the electro ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR is to extract latent or unexploited information from existing submarine acoustic sensors through a highly innovative inter- and intra-sensor correlation algorithm, in order to provide U.S. submarines with increased acoustic superiority over increasingly quiet adversaries.  U.S. adversaries are continuously improving their acoustic quieting technologies through effor ...

Propel proposes to conduct research in order to determine the performance level of a seamless cold weather mesh undershirt and drawers as compared to the existing undershirt and drawers.  Propel shall develop initial concepts and evaluate their technical feasibility.  Comparison to conventionally sewn seams using internationally recognized standards and test methods, as well as novel test method ...