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IERUS is developing a novel phased array ground terminal aperture architecture for the DoD's next generation of satellite constellations. With the proliferation of high-bandwidth satellites across LEO, MEO, and GEO, there is a need for SWaP-C optimized user terminal apertures. The IERUS solution implements scalable and mission-set reconfigurable technologies to enable rapid transition into operati ...

Augmentation Systems (VAS) Range Finder. It provides opportunities for day/night observation and range measurement in a small, easy-to-use device. We tradeoff features and SWAP-C to determine optimal combinations and document them in a feasibility study. Novel methods of presenting ranges are further. investigated and discussed.

HQ AFSOC A2 and JSOC’s JIB have a national defense-related mission need in rapid, effective decision-making to support the nation’s elite special operators. The initial Cerebras’ super-computing Phase II successfully validated the system’s ability to util

Femtosense is an innovative tech startup leading the charge to deploy sparse AI using novel techniques that are far more affordable and easier to implement than traditional AI computational technologies. Femtosense’s invention – the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU-001) is a TRL level 7 processing chip poised to disrupt the $50B AI hardware market. It offers best-in-class SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Powe ...

Toyon proposes to establish the feasibility of a novel approach to performing S2ST between a target language, such as English, and the low density spoken only language Hokkien. While we will focus of Hokkien during the research and development efforts of Phase I, our system can be tailored to any low density spoken language. Our approach leverages our recently developed Android Team Awareness Kit ...

One advanced material found to survive high G-forces and also is defect and grain-size free is thermos-plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG). Unlike MEMS-based silicon components which often do not survive high-G, high shock environments, Tanner Research and Yale University have successfully demonstrated thermos-plastic formed (TPF) Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) use as an alternative materi ...

This proposal is submitted in response to the DoD’s need for a low-power, US-sourced, ultra-wideband VCO designed to work over -55ºC to 125ºC, with high level of programmability and reconfigurability for different applications. This proposal describes a novel design that meet these requirements, building on more than 10 years of prior R&D in this area.

Implementation of multiple parallel current-sharing filaments in high-voltage photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) has been shown to be very effective in scaling the current handling capability of the devices. This approach increases the active current-switching area on the surface of the device to handle higher total current. In this effort, we will develop a vertical geometry PCSS that ...

We propose to develop a hybrid leak detection system, utilizing real-time multisensory system and a compact gas chromatograph (GC) integrated in a single unit. The key advantages of our GC technology are utilization of scrubbed ambient air as a carrier gas and utilization of novel multisensory highly integrated platform as a GC detector. The outcome of this technology, is the ability to monitor a ...

Passive components, such as resistors, capacitors and inductors, present a unique complication when reverse engineering is attempted.  Automated measurements of device values on populated printed circuit boards  - resistance, capacitance and inductance - is complicated by the network effect of neighboring components connected to the component being measured.  Some solutions are applicable to s ...