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The Navy wants the capability of firing over twenty missiles with Mark 72 boosters compared to about a dozen today, which will require a different ablative material than what is currently used. A solution to this problem is needed to get ahead of the curve for the future fleet operations. There is an opportunity to develop new ablative materials for the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) with th ...

Nanohmics is developing technologies to improve overall Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) fuel efficiency by idle reduction and waste energy harvesting. Direct mechanical drive of the air compressor for example introduces constant parasitic losses that could be eliminated by driving the compressor electrically on-demand. Providing an electric-drive capability to the MTVR engine air compre ...

This effort will validate the Multi-Mode Moving Target Processor (M3TP) algorithm and adaptive feature-based techniques software developed under Phase 1 against radar data to characterize their robustness against sea state and target speed. Once validated, the goal is to integrate these algorithms into the modified OSI testbed for close loop testing against future test data to assess their capabil ...

Texas Research Austin (TRI-Austin) will continue to partner with the University of Texas, Austin, to use additive manufacturing for fabricating and optimizing the lithium ion and electroactive metal electrode systems for which the team established proof of concept in the Phase I base period. The Aerosol Deposition Method (ADM) is a broadly applicable additive manufacturing technology that has been ...

Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N0014-12-C-0373. High power, superconducting electron linear accelerators represent a new method of producing highly focused electron beams (Ebeams). These instruments have exciting applications in the area of free electron lasers and directed energy weapons, but are costly and currently only useful in small, highly-specialized markets. ...

In this Phase I SBIR proposal, SandBox Semiconductor™ proposes to develop an Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements software tool called Weave ™ for accelerating and automating SEM image analysis for the semiconductor industry. During the development of a new manufacturing process line for a semiconductor device, tens of thousands of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are take ...

Direct conversion of DC energy to RF energy via switched systems such as Class D, E, and F amplifiers is limited by the switches currently available. Presently available switches are voltage limited, resistive transition time limited, and rate of current rise limited. Furthermore, high power switched amplifiers are limited by the thermal dissipation of the switches which are required to open and c ...

The proposed effort for the SBIR Phase II.5 Project is a Continued Development to extend the capabilities of the Phase II unit in accordance with the UHF/MUOS SATCOM Triplex Filter Specification. The Triplex Filter will operate over the Legacy UHF SATCOM (UFO) frequency bands plus the entire MUOS frequency bands (Existing plus Growth), and will support transmit power levels up to 250 watts. The re ...

AN ALL OPTICAL FIBER OPTIC SWITCH BASED UPON PHOTO GENERATED FREE CARRIER INDUCED OPTICAL EFFECTS IN GAAS, GAALAS, INP, AND OTHER COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS IS PROPOSED.A SIMPLE DEVICE STRUCTURE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RELATIVELY EASY FABRICATION MAKES THE PROPOSED SWITCH AN ATTRACTIVE CONCEPT TO INVESTIGATE. MODULATION OF LIGHT IN FIBER OPTICS UP TO 200 MHZ USING FREE CARRIER INDUCED EFFECTS IN SILIC ...

The proposed method for the fabrication of cathode heaters uses ink-jet printing of solutions containing tungsten particles. This method radically alters the manufacturing approach by introducing a complete data driven technology that will produce consistent heater elements and will allow quick turnaround for design changes.Phase I demonstrated the key elements of the technology: solution formulat ...