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The goal of the proposed STTP is to improve the Jam Beam Radiometer capability in the TAPS System to provide enhanced characterization of missile warning systems during testing against simulated SAM and AAM. The resulting radiometer and gimbal system will improve the current live fire testing process by providing enhanced JBR capability, which will significantly enhance the TAPS testing scenario c ...

In this proposal, Bluecom Systems proposes to develop a framework in designing and manufacturing smart materials that can be used as adaptive radiating structures to operate at different frequencies, with different radiation patterns, and achieve polarization diversity. The solution proposed, based on optically pixilated Silicon or GaAs surfaces, can be used as reflective surfaces for reconfigurab ...

Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. will develop a new detector optimized with high quantum efficiency >65% at 2.05 microns and able to detect light from 1.0 to 2.4 microns, allowing for a range of laser types for coherent LADAR. The new material will have dark current rates less than 4000 nA/cm2 at 290K. The new detector will be integrated into a 1280x1024 imager on 8 micron pitch to allow â†...

The MaXentric team proposes “A 45nm SOI-CMOS 350 MSa/s 16b ADC with FPGA Calibration�. The custom ADC targets 350 MSa/s and at least 14 ENOB (showing path to 16 ENOB) under 1 W. The ADC utilizes advanced Global Foundry trusted SOI fabrication process technology to meet both performance and RADHARD specifications for other DoD applications. Techniques such as a pipelined ADC, time inte ...

Within Phase I, MaXentric demonstrated the feasibility of a candidate architecture for a multi-channel RF ALT system, providing independent control and monitoring of each channel, which includes software monitoring and control of bias and RF inputs and outputs, as well as temperature control and monitoring of baseplate temperatures of the devices-under- test (DUT). MaXentric’s proposed arch ...

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An Energetic Charged Particle (ECP) sensor with reduced SWaP would enhance the nation’s space-based platform for space weather observing systems by enabling the use of smaller spacecraft. Moreover, a modular architecture that enables customization of the instrument target spectra to the mission profile would allow further optimizations in SWaP while still enabling the acquisition of valuabl ...

Live Fire testing of MANPADS to evaluate system performance and collection of ground truth data for system/threat model development is an expensive effort, so it is required to verify instrumentation is working accurately prior t the test event. The CRRTS system will provide the radiometric and timing sources required to characterize the radiometric responses of adjunct sensors as well as their ti ...

The objective of this effort is to provide next generation plasma physics modeling tools for accurate simulation of phenomenology occurring in exceptionally wide-ranging states of matter. This modeling tool will enable scientists and engineers to design robust, reliable systems operating in the harsh environments of extraordinary temperature, density, and charge-states. These designs will support ...

Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) will collaborate to develop a Monte Carlo (MC) transport simulation and device modeling software package for optoelectronic devices based on III-V Type-II superlattice (T2SL) materials. UIC’s existing, research-grade, ensemble MC transport code is predictive of carrier transport in T2SL materials because it prope ...