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Requirements for future reconnaissance (Recce) systems are driving the need for very large (~32"x32"), very high quality windows transparent in the visible and Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) wavebands. At the present time, the leading candidate material for these demanding Recce applications is ALON Optical Ceramic, produced by Surmet Corp. The current available production equipment is limited to fabric ...

ABSTRACT: Imagery analysts must frequently identify targets in rapidly changing environments where mistakes can have tragic consequences. LADAR is an emerging sensor technology that provides a rich data source for human analysts in support of combat identification. However, the primary focus of prior research has been on developing LADAR as a technology without adequately considering how an ana ...

ABSTRACT: The insertion of WAAS into the Air Force GEOINT analyst's arsenal of resources represents an evolutionary advance in potential real-time and forensic analysis capabilities. With the broad coverage areas that WAAS provides, analysts will be able to monitor individuals, groups, and vehicles across space and time, allowing them to more accurately and effectively develop patterns of l ...

ABSTRACT: Significant opportunities exist for improving the measurement, estimation, and control processes of phased array transceivers. The proposed effort focuses on the Enhanced IPALS phasing concept, but can be adapted to other phasing concepts. A phased array model will be adapted from existing models, and will include many types of disturbances, such as speckle dynamics, platform vibratio ...

Azure Summit proposes to implement a channelized transceiver capable of adapting to operate with multiple signals at arbitrary center frequencies and bandwidths. Our proposed implementation will support wideband (1 GHz) operation in real time using hardware with modest SWAP requirements. BENEFIT: Azure's adaptive channelizer technology offers benefits for a number of applications in electr ...

This SBIR Phase II project will demonstrate a highly innovative, high-performance Adaptive Digital Receiver architecture with adaptive background control that optimizes the performance in rapidly changing signal environments and provides 2 GHz instantaneous bandwidth, SFDR>90 dB, SNR = 66 dB, with dynamic digital channelization. The efficacy of this technology was proven in the highly successful ...

ABSTRACT: This proposal is for the Phase II continuation of research and development for an Adaptive Interface Management System (AIMS) for Netcentric Supervisory Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Our Phase II proposal is based on a full understanding of the problem to be solved and a solid record of achievement in Phase I. The AIMS program goal is to provide a new suite of intellige ...

Electronic warfare (EW) measures are an integral component of threat suppression missions such as suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD). A successful EW mission requires an underlying communication network that remains operational even when under attack. The communication network must be able to support the distribution and fusion of data provided by networked sensors. The fused sensor data prov ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this SBIR phase II proposal is to validate design and material and process engineering that demonstrated feasibility of processing the adaptive thermal control material system (TCMS) that is capable of providing a radiation hardened space stable performance along with the needs of the charge storage capability. Through this proposal the several engineered TCMS concepts fo ...

ADS-B reports can be maliciously spoofed to deny airspace to other aircraft including those on DoD missions. Under the Phase I effort, we developed a novel approach that exploits the physical characteristics of the ADS-B transmission signal to determine its validity. We leveraged our proven transmitter localization algorithms along with multi-target tracking filters to develop an ADS-B message au ...