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Today, the Army utilizes multiple radar systems with overlapping areas of responsibility to provide RF sensing for battlefield Air Surveillance (AS), Air Defense (AD), Counterfire Target Acquisition (CTA), and other missions. While each mission has unique challenges and requirements, enhancements in sensor hardware technology, including digital beamforming (DBF) and arbitrary waveform generation, ...

US warfighter safety could be significantly improved by providing an ability to quickly and accurately assess the acoustic impact of rotorcraft operations in the field and reduce the likelihood of detection. Current mission planning tools are empirical in nature, limited to operating conditions for which flight test data exists and challenged in predicting the acoustic impact of maneuvering flight ...

Communication and hearing are critical to the warfighter: threats must be heard, identified, and localized; a squad leader’s commands must be heard and interpreted. Hearing and communication are both challenged by battlefield noise, whether by continuous noise from one’s vehicle or by impulsive noise from incoming or outgoing fire. The Army seeks new advances in battlefield tactical communicat ...

Exoskeletons promise to improve the lethality, mobility, and survivability of modern dismounted warfighters by augmenting strength, increasing endurance, and providing protection. However, this promise and potential has yet to be fully realized. One of the major challenges with exoskeletons is the interface between the exoskeleton and the human user – how can the (often rigid) exoskeleton be eff ...

To meet the demands of topic A19-009, the MaXentric team proposes the MAESTRO (Millimeter-wave Amplifier under Efficient Switching-mode and Time-multiplexing Operations), which provides a new concept of a power amplifier in millimeter-wave frequency band for commercial and military communication and electronic warfare applications. Using time-multiplexing technique and switching-mode amplifier, hi ...

A major innovative thrust in Army tactical operations is routine use of small Group 1 UAS for surveillance and sensing missions. However, for effective and stealthy use of such assets, low acoustic signature is critical. At present, capabilities for designing such vehicles for minimum noise is extremely limited, especially when combined with the challenge of designing to meet critical mission requ ...

Rotorcraft, both civilian and military, suffer from higher operating costs relative to their fixed-wing brethren due to cyclical loading that limits the useful lifetime of key structural components. Important recent advances in aeromechanics prediction capabilities, coupled with enhanced modeling of fatigue growth on life-limited parts, now allows development of a methodology both to predict real- ...

To meet the demands of the A19-029 SBIR solicitation (“Wideband, Programmable, Multifunctional Transmitter/Receiver (TRX) Module”), we propose a novel approach which leverages our wideband front-end technology and previous experience developing TRX modules. The system will support fast hopping (FHSS) via a novel architecture approach. Furthermore, single frequency full duplex operation will be ...

A 1280x720 on 8 µm pitch short wave infrared (SWIR) imager will be developed for night vision goggle applications. This imager will be low cost,

Pixel sidewalls of antimony-based type-II strained layer superlattices (SLS) with infrared energy bandgaps have electron accumulation (in n-type SLS) or electron inversion (in p-type SLS) surface layers that contribute leakage current that affects detector performance. These conductive surfaces are a consequence of surface Fermi level pinning in these materials and have to be prevented to address ...