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Urban Sky is an aerospace startup that develops innovative stratospheric flight and remote sensing systems. For this Phase II STTR, Urban Sky, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder (CUB), is proposing the development, test, and commerci

Systems Visions LLC (dba SYVI) and its partners Auburn University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) propose “Hybrid Integration of Photonics and Cryogenic Electronics with Magnetic Shielding (HIPCEMS)”, an effort to develop a scalable heterogeneous packaging plan that results in extreme energy efficiency information transfer at high data rates and low bit error rate of digit ...

Hemp fibers have been used in textile applications for thousands of years, but have been limited to textiles for home furnishing, rope, sacks, and other non-clothing textile applications. However, new treatment methods for hemp fibers to improve their hand, as well hemp’s general softening properties with time and wear, make these fibers attractive for use in performance clothing due to hemp’s ...

Solutions are sought by the Navy to introduce a new design and/or new technologies to improve transformer-rectifier (T/R) maintainability, with a focus on modularity, hatchability, temperature regulation, and simplicity. The proposed solution by American Maglev Technology of Florida (AMT) and the University of Houston incorporates HTS-based transformers, coupled with LRU control unit partitionin ...

Atmospheric drag is the biggest source of error and the least predictable perturbing force acting on spacecraft and space debris objects in orbit around Earth. The U.S. Air Force uses the High accuracy satellite drag model (HASDM) to predict the atmospheric drag effects. Kayhan Space in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder and Space Environment Technologies seeks to improve the HA ...

In this Phase II SBIR, Voxtel is designing freeform gradient-index (GRIN) optics that will enable a reduction in the number of lens elements required to reproduce color-corrected imagery to benefit squad, crew-served, and sniper fire-control systems by reducing the size, weight, and complexity of the optics used in fire-control systems.  The additional degrees of design freedom enabled by th ...

Inkit’s Reach Enablement Platform (REP) will save the Air Force millions of dollars through the streamlined process for spare part sourcing and ordering. Inkit’s software product suite enables end-users (in this instance, maintainers and CE personnel) to place automated digital orders to a network of configurable 3rd-party vendors. Not only does it allow efficiency regarding end-user and vendo ...

Aircrafts operated by the US Navy/Marine Corps have to endure harsh environmental conditions, with erosion from Foreign Object Debris such as sand particles being a prime concern. The aeroengines ingest loose sand, which impinges on the engine components and damages the metal, ceramic, and composite materials. Erosion phenomena are complicated due to the wide operating space but can be efficiently ...

percapacitors provide energy densities comparable to thin film batteries, high power densities, ultrafast recharge, and long cycle lives for applications requiring high duty cycle and pulse power output.  Micro-supercapacitors (MSC) are the most promising energy storage technology for integration with energy harvesting, via micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and microelectronics integrated ...

Due to recent advances in the field of microelectronics, there is an increasing demand for micro-sized energy storage devices that are capable of being incorporated into and provide energy for MEMS devices. In order to continue to enable this technological growth, and the benefits that stem from it, the storage density of electrical energy must also continually be improved, especially with respect ...