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ABSTRACT:The reduction of aerodynamic/hydrodynamic noise caused by violent turbulence is of strategic importance to many military systems. These include modern fighter jets, unmanned weapons with sensitive electronics, and surface and underwater vessels. For all these systems, aerodynamic or hydrodynamic noise can produce unacceptable levels of operational loads or acoustic vibrations, or be detri ...

This proposal is for a Phase II program for further development and prototyping of a Development and Run-time Environment for Aviation Mission-tasking and Mission-management (DREAMM) for manned-unmanned teams.Development and modification of the tightly integrated avionics in a combat aircraft is highly technical and currently requires skilled engineers to effect even the most minor changes in syst ...

Billions of dollars have been invested by the United State to acquire the most technologically advanced military hardware in history, and, thereby provide battlefield advantages to military personnel. Protection of our sophisticated weapons systems and their components is critical for the continued maintenance of our technological advantages. Detecting and counteracting the newest methods of rever ...

PeopleTec, Inc., a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), teamed with SECOTEC and ITT Exelis to provide an innovative and economical solution to Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requirements for evaluating high explosive detonation response to impact. Led by principle investigator Mr. Tim Cowles, the goal of our effort is the development of an inexpensive test technique enabling the assessment of a wide ...

The goal of this SBIR project is to develop a computational tool for characterizing TM and GPS antennas mounted on plasma-engulfed hypersonic missiles and re-entry vehicles. The computational tool leverages coupled Computational Electro-Magnetics (CEM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques to simulate antenna operation following prediction of the missile or vehicle"s plasma environment ...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking a highly reliable, compact, low-power and low-cost transducer to detect rapid changes in concentration of hypergolic fuels and oxidizers. To meet this MDA need, InnoSense LLC (ISL) will develop a chemical transducer-based hypergolic leak detector using proprietary polymer nanomaterials and electronic design. Building on the well established collabor ...

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) proposes to adapt and advance its recently developed intrinsically safe hypergolic leak detection technique, based on its well established optical sensing techniques, for developing a modular liquid hypergolic propulsion (LHP) leak detection sensor. We have identified highly stable and sensitive colorimetric indicators for monomethylhydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen ox ...

Eotron"s advanced diode laser packaging technology allows construction of an efficient and compact line-narrowed diode stack combined with Volume Brag Grading (VBG) for pumping a Diode Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL). A single laser diode bar with a 20pm spectral line-width demonstrated more than 30W of cw output power at 780nm pumping a rubidium vapor laser. However, current diode laser stacks have ...

We propose a radical new approach for to the design, fabrication, and packaging of a narrow-band semiconductor diode laser array pump source for a DPAL high energy laser system. The concept is scalable to kW class pump laser powers.

This purpose of this project is to develop coatings for use inside the gain cavity of next generation Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs). These coatings will be applied to transparent surfaces of the cavity used to couple the pump energy into the gain media and allow the transmission of the alkali lasing wavelength. These coatings will serve two purposes: protection of the transparent window (e. ...