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Under this proposal, we will use both thick and thin holograms, using PQ-PMMA, to realize three different types of HOEs that would enhance significantly the capabilities of the Free Space Optical Communication System (FSOCS) on portable platforms, while reducing significantly the SWaP-C parameters. The first HOE will realize a WDM transmitter and receiver system with six independent channels, all ...

This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project develops the scale of lithium-ion direct recycling technologies applied to gain efficiencies in materials management from original manufacturing to end-of-life. The scrap materials are from Defense Logistics Agency manufacturing activities. A successful effort moves direct recycle TRL from 4 to 6, increases process throughput, qualifies mate ...

To meet the U.S. Navy need for high-dynamic-range digitizers for lidar applications, a four-input channel 17-bit dynamic-range application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) will be developed. Each of the four high-bandwidth input channels will be configured in a fast-in/slow-out architecture, composed of a stacked 512-element switched capacitor array (SCA), capable of 2-ns time-slice sampling, an ...

The primary objective of this Phase II proposal is to further develop and demonstrate a lightweight passive power factor compensation unit utilizing advanced high-temperature magnetic materials and design techniques to achieve power quality improvement for a 65 kVA, 115V, 400-Hz aircraft power system. Based on identified system problems in the F-18 Super Hornet platform, the compensation system mu ...

Influit Energy LLC (Influit) is proposing a novel approach for a rechargeable liquid energy storage format to address basing and warfighting capability needs. The proposed closed-cycle energy storage ecosystem is enabled by mobile flow battery pods that can be connected to, and accumulate energy from, either distributed or centralized intermittent sources of renewable energy. Once charged, the rec ...

NLP pipelines available today are getting robust for general language modeling purposes. But domain-specific data, abbreviations and lingos, and text about time or space still need a lot of tuning and training that are well beyond application of standard tool sets. Deep learning for recommendation engines is quite new, and all recommender systems, in particular for specially trained users, tend to ...

Solid state RF and millimeter wave weapons systems require substantial power to operate. Pure solid state systems have limited energy density and require charging over the typical use cycle. The directed energy system must be compact enough to mount on a vehicle such as a HMMWV, a small trailer or a structure such as found within an embassy compound. Current power systems are much too large and he ...

Motorized Smart Target that works with vision-based measurement systems to capture high-accuracy six-dimensional (6D) information (x, y, z, pitch, yaw, roll) in near real-time—supporting calibration, monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of industrial robots and other precision machines.

Xenesis is developing a Global Optical Multilayered Mesh Network System (GOMMNS) in partnership with several companies...both public and private. Over the next 24 months, we will perform an on-orbit flight demonstration designed to prove interoperability on both public and private communications architectures. With partnerships and research agreements in place with Georgia Tech, JPL, NASA and othe ...