Award Data

Military respirator masks provide the Warfighter with life critical protection against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. To ensure the safety, comfort, and effectiveness of the American Warfighter, it is essential that every Warfighter be assigned a respirator that is properly sized and fitted. However, current methods for sizing and fitting respirators depend on manu ...

In Phase I, Shear Form, Inc will apply a severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing technology to ultra-high strength steels (UHSS), specifically 4340M and AF 9628, to enable penetration improvement for munitions casings. Equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE), a fully scalable SPD method, will be used to process the steels under ausforming conditions. This will facilitate microstructural enginee ...

This SBIR delivers two optical ground stations, based on commercial design, to support experimentation and laser communication with AFRL spacecraft.  These assets facilitate research in flexible space operations, secure low probability of intercept (LPI) communications, and management of shared resources with disparate commercial networks.  The standards based design supports day and night opera ...

Targets located in the precision impact range area of Edwards AFB are used to evaluate the sensitivity and spatial resolution of imaging systems. The current capability to measure system performance is limited and reaching the end of life. Spectral Sciences, Inc., in collaboration with Labsphere, Inc., proposes to develop a field-ready comprehensive aircraft electro-optical sensor calibration syst ...

High-power, high-efficiency, broadly-tunable coherent sources in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR, λ=3–5 μm) spectral band are coveted for applications relating to infrared (IR) countermeasures, remote chemical sensing, and free-space optical communication. MWIR sources based on optical nonlinear frequency conversion can generate broadly-tunable kilowatt-level coherent radiation over the e ...

The objective of this SBIR Phase II is to test the hypothesis that virtual reality (VR) training content is better than 2-D, flatscreen based training in terms of content realism, trainee immersion, and the variety of outcomes, while also allowing more rapid content creation and distribution. Street Smarts VR is already serving multiple non-defense clients by providing VR-based content. This propo ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will construct and deliver a full-scale prototype rechargeable thermal battery (RTB) that delivers the targeted energy density (>250 Wh/L) at the targeted power density (>10 kW/L) while meeting all mass and form factor requirements. This battery will be constructed by combining PSI’s high active (HA) cathode electrodes, thermally-activated electrolyte, and novel ...

There is a DoD need for the development of robust sensors to obtain temporally and spatially resolved surface temperature and heat flux measurements on test articles in blowdown and continuous hypersonic wind tunnels. These micro-heat flux sensors are required in order to better understand the state of the boundary layer of a hypersonic vehicle; to better understand boundary layer instabilities; a ...

In addition to military scenarios, many environmental inhalant hazards exist in the workplace, from industrial sites to medical facilities. Frequent training and practice are an essential component of effective protection, yet valid methods for assessing proper mask fit are usually not provided beyond the minimum requirements and there is a significant lack of mask fit training to ensure that prop ...

Smart munitions and advanced missile systems require ever increasing capabilities for radar, data link and communications. The various functions are currently provided by separate systems with dedicated antenna apertures and typically operate at different, often widely separated frequencies. Volume constraints on weapons platforms make integration of multiple functions, each employing discrete ant ...