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The goal of this program is to develop a low cost, flexible manufacturing method for the production of Cf reinforced composites for ablation-resistant propulsion components for Theater Missile Defense (TMD) concepts. The matrix material selected for demonstration of the technology will be HfC, a material which has demonstrated good oxidation and ablation resistance at elevated temperatures.

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to study the feasibility of producing, in hardware, a class of forward error-correcting codes which are vastly superior to any currently available. These Turbo Product Codes (TPCs) are ideally suited to communications systems where large coding gain is required, but only a limited overhead is acceptable. The best TPC evaluated ...

The Low Cost Space Coupled Phased Array Radar is a high performance, low cost, compact, totally integrated radar system designed specifically for mobile and small ship platforms. Design and cost objectives are met by use of an innovative space coupled array architecture which cost effectively utilizes emerging monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and a sophisticated, compact wavefo ...

Systems and weapons platforms of the future are going to place more cognitive demands on the operators; conventional task analyses were designed for physical tasks, not for cognitive tasks. Furthermore, future systems will permit dramatically reduced manpower; this will require even more care in function allocation, and will further increase the cognitive demands on the operators. We propose ...

We propose an optical parametric oscillator based on silver gallium selenide and pumped by the output of a Raman laser for the generation of infrared radiation tunable between 7.5 and 9 microns at 10-kHz repetition rates. The recently developed Raman laser provides high-quality output beams with selectable pulse duration and is well-suited to OPO pumping. The OPO will be injection seeded to redu ...

Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) offers the opportunity for significant cost savings in the fabrication of polymer matrix composite structures. However, the realization of this cost savings has been limited to lower temperature (e.g. epoxy) matrix composites. The main reason for this has been that available high temperature (e.g. polymide) composites have not possessed the characteristics which make ...

The objective of this research proposal is to explore the application of modern signal processing and controller design techniques to successfully engage low-observable and highly maneuverable threats. MRLets will develop and test a set of adaptive fire control algorithms -- referred to collectively as the Target-Oriented Robust Tracking and Guidance (TORTAG) system -- which are optimized to the ...

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Thin film thermoelectric (TE) technology offers the potential for low cost, low weight, small volume and high efficiency heating and cooling systems for many applications. More importantly, the recent research has indicated the possibility of drastically improving TE performance (ZT) of TE materials by using superlattice engineering, which can only be realized through the thin film TE technolo ...

This SBIR Phase I project aims to develop a novel in-line, real time dielectric mix ratio sensor for polymer processing control based on impedance analysis. The impedance response of a polymer mixture includes along with dielectric properties, the conductance, the inductance, and the interfacial polarization of the system, and is anticipated to provide the needed sensitivity to the change of ...