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"Space vehicles designed to resupply systems such as SBIRS Low and Space-Based Laser, as well as maneuverable targets and interceptors, require an affordable, low system-impact sensor for attitude determination, especially when a high degree of navigationis required for high delta-v maneuvers. Today's star trackers are too massive, expensive, and power hungry to appropriately serve small maneuver ...

"For missions deploying maneuverable vehicles for Boost-Phase and Space-Based Intercept, as well as refueling and resupply for SBIRS Low and Space-Based Laser, MDA requires a compact, highly versatile avionics core with a design that can be reused at verylow cost for a variety of missions. Leveraging previous work, AeroAstro and the University of Alabama Huntsville propose to develop a flexible, ...

"The future battlefield will feature highly advanced targeting and firepower and will therefore require significant advancements in real-time information feed back for individual soldiers. Advanced communications and sensors systems can inform the soldierand his commander of, for example, the locations and identities of hazards and details of his physical condition. To advance this goal, radio-f ...

"Cougaar Software is proposing a innoavtive new approach to user environments, one powered by distributed agent technology and utilizing the latest in JavaBean, Component, Design Pattern and Agent technology to achieve something never before possible -dynamic process-based composable user interfaces with active shared data spaces, as shown in Figure 1. This approach will realize the concept of Ac ...

"Magnetic field-enhanced electrocatalysis at the hydrogen and air electrodes of PEM fuel cells have reported improved power densities, three-fold over conventional PEMFCs. Leddy, et al. used micron-sized polymer-encapsulated beads of permanent magnetsplaced in conventional inks of carbon-supported platinum electrocatalysts to enhance MEA performance. Their work showed a qualitatively improved CO ...

"The objective of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project is to develop novel high performance three-dimensionally integrated package designs for optical modulator applications. There are many optoelectronic device designs that show greatpromise in the research lab, but have demonstrated degraded response once packaged. The proposed effort will develop advanced packaging methods tha ...

"There is an acute need for the development of high quality, robust, photonic circuitry to serve as an integrating medium for optical networks and to perform basic, on-chip functions such as signal conditioning and signal processing. What is needed arephotonic circuits that are small, functional, can be manufactured easily and in great volume, yet not have the limitations inherent in present techn ...

"In this Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project we will employ a new method applicable to the fabrication of polymer thin film multilayer capacitors. This method is based on the ionically self-assembled monolayer (ISAM) methods of creatingmultifunctional thin-films monolayer by monolayer. These methods have been proven to yield self-assembled, electronically and photonically-active pol ...

"Luna Innovations proposes to develop novel, affinity-based, polymerized, fluorescent liposomes (fluorosomes) for the detection of biological toxins in water. The detection platforms will focus on assays that uses antibody or receptor ligands withdiacetylene-based liposomes which change their fluorescence intensities or spectra upon binding of their respective toxin targets. At present, method ...

"There is an acute need for the development of high quality, robust, photonic circuits to serve as an integrating medium for optical networks and to perform basic, on-chip functions such as signal conditioning and signal processing. What is needed arenanophotonic devices that are small, functional, can be manufactured easily and in great volume, yet not have the limitations inherent in present tec ...