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The harsh environment posed by hypersonic flight makes antenna design challenging due to extreme temperature exposure coupled with often competing mechanical/aero and RF performance requirements. FIRST RF proposes an advancement to its numerous conformal antenna technologies utilizing additive manufacturing of dielectric materials. This approach will decouple the competing RF and mechanical requir ...

Estes Energetics and Battelle Memorial Institute will apply a fast, affordable manufacturing technology—proven to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 4—that manufactures a layer of carbon-carbon directly on composite structures without requiring use of an autoclave or densification process holds, resulting in reduced manufacturing time while improving com ...

To maintain spectrum dominance against insurgent, near-peer, and peer adversaries, it is imperative for the United States Armed Forces and Department of Defense (DoD) to expand our nation’s superior capabilities for functions across the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, including communications, wideband electronic attack (EA), and radar missions. While recent advances in exciter and amplifier tech ...

The dynamic geopolitical climate of recent years has shifted the focus of the United States Armed Forces and Department of Defense (DoD) away from insurgency and toward near-peer adversaries. Maintaining battlefield dominance against well-equipped and highly capable military forces requires innovative, capable, adaptable, and scalable radio frequencies (RF) technologies—particularly those suppor ...

Numerica proposes to leverage extensive expertise in advanced battle management algorithms, advanced guidance and control algorithms, hypersonic defense, and high-g missile threat modelling to develop a physics-based, real-time prototype battle management and advanced guidance algorithm that produces optimal launch scheduling and optimal guidance for mid-trajectory interception of hypersonic threa ...

The project aims to create a framework for real-time wearable sensor analysis that can be used to monitor warfighter health and readiness. There are two parts to the work: Framework and Model. The framework will be built on a smartphone and provides the flexibility to add any number of Bluetooth Low Energy wearable sensors and/or internal smartphone sensors while maintaining low energy consumption ...

An AI/ML-enabled simulation optimization tool can exploit existing simulation models to streamline the scenario planning and analysis process. Our Phase II project will focus on using AI/ML techniques and simulation optimization to solve the problem of generating a minimal collection of test scenarios, using the minimum number of shared scenario components that meets a required set of test objecti ...

OptTek will apply our novel mapping, adaptive sampling, and optimization capabilities to help MDA better understand the operational effectiveness of the MDS under multi-threat missile raids. While digital simulations provide faster feedback on missile defense performance than a ground test, the computational costs are still too high to handle the combinatorial explosion of parameter combinations a ...

Under the Phase I effort, NAVSYS developed a design for an alternative navigation (ALTNAV) external aiding solution that utilizes signals of opportunity (SoOP) from a combination of commercial and military space systems leveraging NAVSYS PNT as a Service (PNTaaS) technology developed under contract to DARPA, Air Force, and Navy customers. Under the Phase II effort, we propose to build and test a P ...

By virtue of a Phase I Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract, Code 13 Security (doing business as Dark Sky Technology) has developed a Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 5 technology to translate type-unsafe source and binary software into the type-safe language Rust. The design of this system is innovative in its use of machine learning ...