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Efforts to apply active noise and vibration control commercially, while intensifying, continue to be hampered by the cost of the computers required to implement the active algorithms. Currently, the cost of wide-band control is prohibitive for lightly damped systems such as precision structures or highly reverberant acoustic spaces, even if the system has just one canceling actuator and one error ...

Aerodyne Research, Inc. (ARI) and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst will collaborate to develop a novel technique for efficient mass spectrometric analysis of high molecular weight analytes such as proteins and polymers. Laser desorption and ionization with minimal analyte fragmentaton will be carried out on metal nanoparticle substrates in a particle beam sampled by Aerodyne’s proprie ...

As the Air Force organizational structure grows more distributed, geographically separated team members will need a collaborative working space where they can generate shared understanding and synchronize collective C2 and ISR activities. Currently, there is no way to collaboratively visualize coordinated information from operations and intelligence sources across operational and planning functio ...

Lexitek and U. Mass Lowell propose to develop novel laser nanostructured substrates for laser desorption ionization (LDI) that enables mass spectrometry (MS) without an interfering chemical matrix. Lexitek is developing these patented plasmonic devices for molecular sensing using surface enhanced detection techniques. Using a technique invented by U. Mass researchers, the devices are fabricated in ...

The challenge faced by Cyber-security is an evolving challenge. Attack vectors are not static and threat techniques evolve faster than defenses can be constructed or counterattacks launched against them. Though the network and nodes may display anomalous behaviors under use, those anomalies are rarely, analyzed before an attack occurs. The objective of the Security Architecture via Cognitive Be ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has rapidly become an indispensable technology in both the military and civilian worlds, but its limitations are well-known to every GPS-guided driver who has ever gotten lost in an urban canyon, and its universality makes it a likely target of both simple and sophisticated electronic attacks in military operations. We describe a number of novel techniques for t ...

The Air Force Phase I STTR program would develop and demonstrate high temperature version of ‘sensor skins’ capable of multi-axis flow characterization on air breathing hypersonic engines. This would build upon NanoSonic’s successful demonstration of Metal Rubber™ transducer materials for the measurement of flow-induced skin friction and pressure at low temperatures and transonic and super ...

NanoSonic has developed Shape Memory-Metal Rubber™ (SM-MR), a highly electrically conductive, mechanically adaptive, thermoresponsive skins for morphing unmanned air systems (UAS). Extremely durable SM-MR skins exhibit high DC and RF conductivity, up to -88 dB EMI SE upon repeated, severe disparate shape configurations. While the conductivity is high enough for morphing without the need for em ...

In this Phase I project, NanoSonic would perform trade studies for multiple antenna systems meeting the wide field-of-view and multiple beam aperture set forth in this solicitation. An initial design for a phased array and reflectarray would be performed; in this task NanoSonic would work with a major US defense prime with a long history in the military satellite industry. In establishing performa ...

NanoSonic specializes in the design and synthesis of non-commodity, wide service temperature range (-120C to > 350C), polar poly(organosiloxanes) pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs). NanoSonic has demonstrated that the mole fraction of polar sidechain units dictates the adhesive peel strength; and the mole fraction of crosslink sites, or crosslink density, controls the adhesive failure mode ...