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A shock mitigating suspended seat, which places the Special Forces Operator in an optimal ergonomic position, will be developed for use in the NSW 11M RIB. It will feature a semi-actively controlled shock absorber to optimize the suspension for a broadrange of operator weights and sea states. In the Phase I effort, a conceptual design and architecture for both control hardware and software was d ...

Long-duration wide-area surveillance missions increasingly are space-based. MEO orbits offer space-based radar systems more time on station, but require very large array apertures on the order of 100m in diameter. Achieving larger apertures with smaller,lighter launch packages and stable on-orbit pointing is a challenge that E-Textiles promises to meet. Textile processes can be used to achieve a l ...

Off-axis illumination, optical proximity correction, phase shift masks, interferometric techniques, and pupil plane phase masks have been used to increase lithographic resolution. Further progress requires new techniques and methodologies. The optimalcombination of aspheric optics and signal processing which we term Wavefront Coding has been effective in dramatically increasing the imaging perfo ...

Not Available The development of a high performance laser with low relative intensity noise (RIN) for RF photonics application is proposed. The laser has a modulation doped multi-quantum well active region and is fabricated on a p-type substrate. The former is needed for low RIN because the modulation doped multi-quantum well design increases the resonance frequency, and the latter is needed fo ...

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Not Available MSSI proposes the development of a micro-miniature, ultra low power, light weight, precision Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar sensor for Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) collision avoidance. The proposed sensor is capable of sub-foot resolution making it viable for dual use as a high accuracy altimeter. The altimeter with increased power may also find use in buried mine detection. Under Phase ...

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The development of a hardware module for installation in DRT Receiver hardware to allow for the real-time detection and identification of FH and DSSS spread spectrum signals using the FDDM algorithm developed under Phase I.

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