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Not Available Utilizing plasma interactions on hypersonic vehicles for aerodynamic control, drag reduction, thermal management and propulsion are proposed by-US agencies, industry and foreign interests (Russian AJAX). These schemes address the Air Force's need for future hypersonic vehicles. This SBIR will develop a plasma MGD/MHD system designed to enable ' hypersonic propulsion by electromagnet ...

Not Available Foster-Miller, Inc. with their team members will evaluate and demonstrate the potential uses of continuous fiber reinforced hafnium carbide composites for larger scale TPS and leading edge components for the next generation of reentry and hypersonic vehicles. Foster-Miller has demonstrated fabrication of ceramic matrix composite components via the low cost and net shape preceramic p ...

Not Available A new approach to significantly increasing the level of monolithic integration of InP based photonic integrated circuits for RF applications is the subject of this proposed Phase I program. The method is based on a vertically coupled twin wave guide design that has already been successfully used to fabricate lasers and amplifiers. The fabrication process requires no epitaxial re-g ...

Not Available Modern satellite-communication transmitters use a single antenna array to form multiple beams. Each power-amplifier (PA) module must amplify multiple carriers simultaneously. The resultant high peak-to-average ratio causes conventional PAs to be very inefficient (5-10 percent). Kahn-technique (EER) transmitters combine nonlinear RF amplifiers with a high-level modulator to implement ...

Not Available Herein, a Phase I program is proposed to design, build, and evaluate actuator for a high field, high strain, dynamic environment to ultimately support a buffet load alleviation system. These actuator improvements include high field and dynamic field testing of Active Control experts (ACX), Inc. current interdigitated design, as well as the inclusion of fine grain piezoceramic elemen ...

Not Available A very promising method of controlling hypersonic flows is through the use of a remotely-driven air plasma. The remotely driven plasma avoids the necessity of bringing the air to stagnation and also permits energy deposition at locations both near and far from vehicle or wind tunnel surfaces. The challenge is to generate the plasma with sufficient energy, and with sufficient control ...

Not Available The objective of this Phase I proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of automating the tasking and reporting of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets in real-time. These ISR assets consist of multiple sensors onboard space, air, sea and land-based platforms performing cooperative, multi-INT, cross-program ISR activities. To achieve this objective and overcom ...

Not Available Existing approaches to the detection of vehicles from SAR imagery are handicapped by a high false alarm rate, especially when used in high clutter environments such as urban areas and forested regions. In this Phase I proposal. Image Corp, Inc. proposes a system for SAR-based vehicle detection that makes extensive use of contextual information derived from the SAR image itself. Mu ...

Not Available Upon completion of our Air Force SBIR Phase I and Phase II, contracts, the Air Force will have the necessary software and whole-hand feedback hardware for unprecedented simulation of haptic interaction between hands and control devices, paying back in multiples the Air Force's financial investment in the contracts. With the proposed high-fidelity control-panel simulator, the Air For ...

Not Available In the course of developing the solar powered Pathfinder and Centurion high altitude long endurance (HALE) uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), AeroVironment has done extensive investigations into the effects of atmospheric turbulence on this unusual class of aircraft. This investigation found that turbulent loads are the driving factor in the design of these vehicles. In particular, ...