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This STTR Phase II Program focuses on a simple and cost effective solution to an urgent challenge facing to today’s U.S. military, i.e., protection of military personnel, sensors, and instruments from laser injury. The program also yields enabling devices for military directed energy (DE) system, multi- and hyper-spectral Ladar/Lidar, mine detector, and multi-wavelength optical beam steerer for ...

The proliferation of low-cost wireless devices has led to increased commercial interest in dynamic mesh networks. At the same time, similar military requirements have surfaced, stemming from Network Centric Warfare and emerging advanced MANET applications. Tactical users stand to realize enormous benefits in size, weight, power and cost by leveraging new commercial wireless technologies, with thei ...

This project aims toward automated troubleshooting of aircraft maintenance supported by unprecedented connectivity: between the depot and the field, between maintainers and technical orders and other documents, and between novice and expert maintainers. Advances in semantic processing will automatically connect, for the first time, work units in the field with bills of materials and work control d ...

The U.S. Air Force has a need to deploy fixed site composite shelters (FSCS) in remote locations to house highly sensitive electronics and communication equipment. Lightweight composite shelters can offer significant benefit due to ease of installation and minimal maintenance. The current composite shelters being deployed have several drawbacks including high cost, inefficient fabrication processe ...

Field emission electron emitting arrays hold promise for use in high current density electron beam devices and can replace power consuming thermionic emitters. While single emitters can emit currents up to milliamps, large field emitter arrays are limited in total current due to non-uniformity and resulting instability problems. Solutions to these problems have been attempted using current limitin ...

Oxygen and/or air plasmas are widely used in different processes such as etching, purifying, ashing, surface cleaning, ozone generation and for electrical oxygen/iodine laser discharges. The oxygen plasma is an important example of electronegative plasmas and has been widely studied and modeled, including non-local effects due to discharge boundaries, low pressure or unsteady-state or afterglow op ...

Space applications continue to be limited by the availability of cost-effective power. Significantly higher efficiency cells with lower mass and volume are required to improve performance and lower mission costs; however, improvements in conventional multijunction technology are not expected to meet the necessary performance increases. Instead, new materials and mechanisms are needed to obtain th ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project is designed to develop and optimize a prototype chrome-free solvent-free zero VOC ultraviolet (UV) light curable self-priming environmentally compliant multifunctional aircraft protective coating to satisfy all requirements of primer and topcoat specifications MIL-PRF-23377 and MIL-PRF-85285. UV technology incorporating non-chromium based c ...

During the Phase I effort, we propose to evaluate the feasibility of performing ultrafast-laser-based ballistic imaging for studying liquid hydrocarbon and oxygen injection characteristics for possible application in bi-propellant rocket engines. Ballistic imaging has the potential to circumvent the difficulties associated with propagating light through dense media. Through the combined use of ult ...

There is a need for extra light-weight mirrors for space environments. In response to this need, UES, Inc. conducted research on light-weight diffraction limited optics that is also amenable to rapid mirror fabrication. The basis of the proposed mirror system was a SiC/Si3N4 nano-laminate of low thermal expansion coefficient, high stiffness, and good strength. The nano-laminate was bonded to a ...