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THE GOVERNMENT HAS INITIATED A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE U.S. LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY. THESE PROGRAMS ARE CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON MEETING GOVERNMENT LAUNCH REQUIREMENTS. IF THESE PROGRAMS ARE ALSO TO BENEFIT THE COMMERCIAL LAUNCH INDUSTRY, COMMERCIAL REQUIREMENTS MUST BE INTEGRATED INTO THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE COMMERCIAL APPLICABILITY OF GOVERNM ...

Operation of cooling tower and boiler systems requires frequent monitoring of water chemistry parameters to obtain the necessary information for adjustments to the water treatment program. Failure to perform the necessary adjustments can result in reduced service life and poor energy efficiency resulting from corrosion, scale and fouling. A hybrid absorbance/emission spectrometer is proposed as th ...

Brimrose proposes to research and build in this SBIR Phase I program, a miniature optically based immunosensor for biodetection. By combining state of the art guide-wave technology, integrated optics and acousto-optics, this biosensor offers advantages of high sensitivity, extra fast speed, reliability, ruggedness, light weight, small size, low maintenance and potentially very low cost because of ...

We propose to meet the needs of this solicitation by designing a complete sytem for the design and instantiation of microelectronic display (MIDIS) technology on individual printed circuit boards (PCBs). MIDIS technology is a system of on-board built-in test couled with both local and remote display systems. MIDIS-equipped PCBs will alert technicians of any faults occuring on the board. Accurate d ...

The primary objective of this project is to devise and build a prototype system that tracks the position and orientation of a mobile robot. Tasks such as ammunition handling, resupply, and logistics applications often make use of mobile robots such as a Cybermotion robot. These mobile robots have a severe deficiency in that there is sufficient slippage between the wheels and the floor that after v ...

ORBITEC proposes a Miniature in-Situ Smart Fatigue Monitor (MISSFM) that will accurately assess and monitor fatigue damage in eal time of almost any structural component. Phase I will design and demonstrate technology to achieve a solid state device to measure and display component strain and calculate fatigue life (rainflow cycle couting and Miner's cumulative damage algorithms). A technical appr ...

We propose to develop novel techniques that enhance the detection and indentification of cluttered targets using wavelet transform (WT) techniques. Two approaches will be explored. The first approach characterizes various clutters by suitably selected wavelet packets such that the WT coefficients are contributed mostly by clutter information but almost not affected by the targets. Bu subtracting t ...

The federal mandated fuel economy and emission requiremens are deiving diesel engine designs, materials and manufacturing practices to the limits of their existing capabilities. The use of ceramic monolithics and improved high temperature tribology coatings are under intense investigation worldwide. A systematic approach for exploiting a breakthrough magnetron sputtered thin film technology - mult ...

THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A NOVEL MINIATURE PULSE WIDTH MODULATED POWER DRIVER FOR ACTUATORS, I.E. DC MOTOR. THE POWER DRIVER WILL DELIVER 50 AT 50VDO IN A DOUBLE INON PACKAGE. THIS COMPACT DESIGN CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE INNOVATIVE COMBINATION OF MODER POWER SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES, PROPRIETORY CIRCUIT DESIGN, AND STATE-OF-THE-ART PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY WHICH UTILIZES NEW HEAT CONDUCTIVE ...

AGILIS CORPORATION PROPOSES TO DEVELOP THE SYSTEM CONCEPT FOR A MODULAR SOLDIER'S COMPUTER. THIS EFFORT IS A DIRECT EXTENSION OF AGILIS' ONGOING WORK WITH COMMERCIAL CLIENTS TO DEVELOP SIMILAR CAPABILITIES. THE MODULAR SOLIDER'S COMPUTER MUST BE VERY SMALL (POCKET-SIZED), LIGHT WEIGHT (1 TO 2 POUNDS), RUGGED, POWERFUL, NETWORKED, AND HAVE AN ADVANCED USER INTERFACE. MILITARY APPLICATIONS INCLUDE B ...