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The key to enabling successful Naval aviation operations is safe, trained, and ready personnel. Current approaches to improving aviator performance, safety, and effectiveness have critical limitations. First, the Navy does not fully leverage the wealth of data collected and maintained in operational and training settings to make improvements. In part, this is because harnessing the data to gain kn ...

Users of additive manufacturing machines expect the highest quality when it comes to the mechanical properties of parts, the usability of the machines and associated processes, and overall machine design. The main contributor to the quality of the part is the involvement of process-related by-products originating from the melting process. To handle these by-products in additive manufacturing - in ...

Most existing simulation tools are deficient in modeling gas flow effects, which have been proven to significantly affect the build quality of metal additive manufacturing (AM). In Phase I, the research team will extend our current Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) modeling toolkit by including a multiscale and multiphysics simulation modules to predict the effect of gas flow o ...

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

Current Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) technology is capable of quantum computing, however, its application is limited due to its large size, low-temperature refrigeration requirement, and high cost.  Quantum optical semiconductor-scale chip technology is promising but not commercially available yet due to the multiple challenges to overcome. Using quantum photonic technology ...

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 ...

Potomac Research LLC and the Ohio State University have developed the Hybrid Boolean Network Physical Unclonable Function (HBN-PUF) technology under STTR Topic #A18B-T001, which has revolutionary security and performance attributes compared to existing hardware authentication proposals.  The HBN-PUF provides hardware authentication as a firmware upgrade to Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) pro ...

We propose a serially concatenated switchable asymmetric Mach Zehnder switching network on a silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit platform to provide flexible and switchable demodulation of signals from less than 1 GHz to greater than 45 GHz. The silicon nitride platform provides a low size weight and power solution while reducing the stabilization requirements and providing long path lengt ...

Phytodetectors will design and engineer a synthetic biological pump circuit to increase the volume of water produced via photosynthetic desalination. This project builds off previous technology designed by Phytodetectors: a mangrove-inspired ultra-filter that allows plants to purify salt water as well as secrete water with properties comparable to bottled water. The partnership seeks to demonstrat ...

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 ...