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Yardney is proposing to take the technology we have previously developed in Phase 1 and move toward thinner cell designs to meet the extreme temperature and power requirements of the next generation of high power Naval Aircraft. Just as the optimum Hybrid Electric Vehicle batteries were a step towards more power and thus thinner design, the optimum battery for high power, high energy Naval aviatio ...

Conformal sensor windows have the capability of increasing the performance of an optical system while decreasing the aerodynamic drag. In many cases, these windows might conform to the platform they reside in. They may also be made out of optical materials that are resistant to the elements, thus providing a degree of protection for the optical sensors that are behind them. Continued improvements ...

Aerodynamically shapes missile domes have many benefits over traditional spherically shaped domes. To correct for optical aberrations presented by this non-traditional shape, free form corrective optics are required between the dome and the image sensor. For this example, the corrective optics shape may be in the form of an arch. Currently the design and utilization of corrective arch shapes are c ...

Future missile systems will abandon the traditional hemi-spherical shape for shapes resembling a tangent Ogive. An ogive shaped dome has better aerodynamic capabilities than its spherical counterpart. This enables the missile to fly faster, farther, and with more accuracy while also increasing its payload capacity. The optical material of choice is polycrystalline alumina, PCA, which is a hard cer ...

The purpose of this research is to develop a marine-worn, cost-efficient blast exposure monitoring device (blast dosimeter) that can be easily deployed by Marines and other ground forces in the theater of operations and in training to measure, record, and display overpressure and force acceleration data from varying blast type events to which these warfighters are exposed.

The university and industrial team assembled by MiTi proposes to demonstrate the viability of using an advanced low cost out of autoclave composites manufacturing process for application to high speed composite flywheel energy storage systems. Besides conducting appropriate materials testing of the new process, testing of a high-speed titanium flywheel simulator system weighing over 200 lbs will b ...

Software provides critical functionality to the DoD, as well as to the communications, banking, and logistics industries we rely on. Runtime monitoring is now routinely applied to quickly identify and limit attacks. However, monitors have difficulty distinguishing good behavior from bad because intended application behavior varies widely. This proposal describes SMAC (Scenario-based Modeling & Che ...

The technical objectives of this proposal are: (1) demonstrate a 4.6 micron-emitting grating-coupled surface-emitting (GCSE) quantum cascade laser (QCL) designed for incorporation in an Active-Photonic-Crystal (APC) structure; (2) demonstrate a high-index-contrast APC-QCL edge-emitting structure, designed for incorporation of gratings; (3) demonstrate a GCSE-APC-QCL structure; (4) Develop monolith ...

Optical fabrication challenges exist before an IR conformal optical sensor system can be realized. These challenges will be addressed in the current Phase II proposal. For example, in current work, the deterministic polishing process will be extended to meet requisite optical specifications (i.e. figure, finish) for IR transparent freeform corrector elements. In addition, the fabricated corrector ...

Poseidon Systems, in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology proposes to develop and demonstrate a novel system for estimating vehicle gross weight and center-of-gravity (W&CG). The proposed system uses a set of low cost sensing elements in combination with physics-based kinematic relationships to determine W&CG of a vehicle platform. No vehicle-specific design information are utilize ...