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HYPRES, in collaboration with University of California, Berkeley, proposes to transition superconducting parametric amplifier technology into a robust line of products. In Phase I, we designed a compact package for lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifiers (LJPA) fabricated by our collaborators at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. We have also established the feasibility of digitization of the amplifie ...

This SBIR consists of the development of a dual-frequency-band imaging radar operating at Ka-band and L-band with ground moving target indicator (GMTI) and Video-SAR capabilities for use on small manned and unmanned aircraft. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions will benefit from the flexible multi-band SAR that will handle several missions with significantly reduced size, ...

Warfighters increasingly rely on mobile devices for voice communication, access to information, and execution of apps that aid them in their tasks. However, untrustworthy applications and risky online behaviors can compromise the mobile device. To be secure and useful, a device must be both multi-level secure and able to access secure services. Current mobile device management solutions cannot mee ...

The objective of the proposal is to develop an adenovirus-like particle (AdVLP) platform technology to create safe and highly efficacious multivalent adenovirus vaccines that can be manufactured in a rapid and cost-efficient manner and can be formulated in a powder composition to facilitate storage, distribution and administration. VLPs are structures resembling native virus, however they do not c ...

Helios Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. proposes to identify methods to extract meteorological measurements from Counter-fire Target Acquisition (CTA) radar echoes to provide the radar and counterfire weapon with ballistic trajectory correction estimates and the crew with hazardous weather warnings. This capability is needed when joint meteorological data from the US Air Force is not available due to ...

A revolutionary non-GPS solution for geolocation for hand and remotely emplaced munitions is proposed. Novel, paradigm shifting technologies of RF polarized scanning and cavity sensor based direction of arrival are merged to enable discovery of emplaced munitions within a minimum zone of 10 kilometers. The spatial precision is better than 100 cm. The proposed solution naturally consumes low power. ...

Wolf's energy-absorbing, blast-attenuating seat for wheeled vehicles automatically adapts its dynamic response to the weight of the seated occupant, without any adjustment or manipulation by a human and without requiring any power for sensing acceleration. The seat automatically adapts to and protects the full range of occupant weights from the 5th percentile female to the 95th percentile, fully-e ...

As the use of software to control more of the world inexorably increases, so does the importance of having confidence that software cannot easily be subverted by attackers. To provide this assurance, several techniques have been developed. One of the most effective and low-cost is software fuzzing, which randomly and semi-randomly permutes software inputs (e.g. files or network data). The software ...

A hybrid lithium ion battery / super capacitor energy storage device is developed that uses the high power capability of the super capacitor to satisfy pulsed power load requirements such that stress on the lithium ion batteries is reduced. This results in extended discharge time and higher efficiency utilization of the battery stack.

We propose to develop a digital image processing system for correction of artifacts due to atmospheric turbulence in long-range video. The system will process video in real time and will not require special optics or cameras. In order to achieve the necessary processing throughput, the system will be designed for implementation on an FPGA-based platform. We will evaluate the correction algorithm o ...