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Oxygen is a necessary substance for human life and it is also, on the battlefield and in other emergency and medical situations, a life-saving substance. Oxygen for use in medical situations requires high purity and must be without contamination and the availability of a high concentration pure oxygen source is critically important in medical emergencies and on the battlefield. Additionally, at pr ...

This proposal is directed toward Focus Area 1: Low noise high sensitivity and high bandwidth detector arrays at 1µm. Amplification Technologies Inc. has invented and demonstrated a fundamentally new technology to design and fabricate high-sensitivity photodetectors. We invented an amplification method that is applied to dramatically increase the detection sensitivity in photo detectors. The D ...

Beltran proposes an innovative thermal management system for high power solid-state lasers based on the Complex of Innovative Cooling Enhancement Technologies (CICET).CICET provides the highest reliability, flexibility of the thermal management with doubling of the sources of refrigeration, selectable for operational regimes:- Semi open cooling circuits.provide optional opportunities for ful ...

Fourier signal processing is an enabling technology that applies to three of the identified technology areas in BAA HQ0006-02-AC-BAA. These include (1) Radar Systems Signal Processing, (2) Lasers & Electro-optics; Optical Signal Processing, and (3) Mathematics and Computer Processing. Drawing on work done in medical signal processing, we seek to expand the Fourier processing technology developed ...

Optimax Systems, Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) propose a collaborative effort, led by Optimax, with two focus areas. Optimax will focus on thin film coating development for optical components to: increase laser damage threshold of optics used in high energy laser systems, investigate methods for laser hardening of sensors, and model and predict the distortion of lightweigh ...

"A central challenge in Boost-Phase Intercept of a hostile ballistic missile is the targeting of the missile body in the brilliant plume. We propose an IR sensor system that takes advantage of special characteristics of plume radiation to provide two bandsthat have very different relative sensitivity to the plume and body. We combine these bands with an algorithm that exploits this relationship to ...

A central challenge in Boost-Phase Intercept of a hostile ballistic missile is the targeting of the missile body in the brilliant plume. We have developed an IR sensor system that takes advantage of special characteristics of plume radiation to provide twobands that have very different relative sensitivity to the plume and body. We combine these bands with an algorithm that exploits this relations ...

C2BMC systems must perform rapid automatic development of plans to assign and employ weapons in the face of BMD attacks; the systems that produce these plans are based on advanced constrained optimization solvers for extremely large problem instances. This proposal outlines a path toward developing scalable constrained optimization algorithm implementations utilizing next generation computational ...

At the core of the challenge facing MDA today is one of adversary air and missile threats being able to fly non-ballistic, highly maneuvering hypersonic trajectories all while having the capability of close formation flight of multiple missile threats. This problem results in challenges related to detection of the threat targets as well as the resulting filtering and data association problem. Ther ...

This SBIR Phase I project addresses the design of an advanced channel error correction and detection scheme for the In-Flight Interceptor Communication System (IFICS). This proposal improves the performance of the current state-of-the-art system.Extensive research work is currently carried out in the areas of iterative channel coding schemes such as turbo coding and low-density parity-check (LDPC ...