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ABSTRACT: Chalcogenide glass fibers are commercially available and are used for delivery of mid-infrared wavelengths (1.5um to 6.5um). These fibers allow compact, robust and low-weight laser platforms designs. Laser systems in high-power and high-stress environments find their reliability and performance limited due to free-space optical components. Free-space components suffer from vibration a ...

Optically transparent resistive films with sheet resistivity that varies from that of metals to that of free space would be useful to soften the detected edges of objects and make them less susceptible to detection and identification by RF targeting systems.The objective of this program is to complete a survey of manufacturing methods that could be used to manufacture such a tapered resistance fil ...

The lateral canthotomy and cantholysis (LCC) procedure is required for pre-deployment training at the US Army Center for Pre-Hospital training at Fort Sam Houston as mandated in executive order HQDA 096-09. This order cannot be fully executed, however, since a realistic, hands-on LCC skill development module does not exist prior to animal training. Although the technique is potentially vision-savi ...

This two-phase SBIR program will develop fully-qualified 6500 V/100 A SiC MOSFET based dual-half bridge power modules, targeted for insertion into the next-generation of U.S. NAVY all-electric warships. The proposed SiC MOSFETs will feature breakdown voltages > 6500 V, specific on-resistance < 35 m-cm2, threshold voltage > 2 V, 175C operation, and transition times < 100 ns. The device robustness w ...

ABSTRACT: Chalcogenide glass fibers are commercially available and are used for delivery of mid-infrared wavelengths (1.5um to 6.5um).These fibers allow compact, robust and low-weight laser platforms designs.Laser systems in high-power and high-stress environments find their reliability and performance limited due to free-space optical components.Free-space components suffer from vibration and the ...

Rotorcraft landing and takeoff is dangerous in environments where obstacles, particularly wires or power lines, exist, and pilot vision is degraded by obscurants such as dust, smoke, fog, rain and snow. This SBIR would focus on a radar solution to detecting wires and power cables when landing in a visually degraded environment. Existing data for wires and power lines with millimeter wave radars pr ...

Luna Innovations is addressing the need to develop novel fluid repellent textile treatments for military uniforms that will actively decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA).There have been recent significant advances in textile treatments that have demonstrated water, oil and chemical agent resistance that are superior to Quarpel repellent treatments currently used on protectiv ...

Military personnel are exposed to broad range of toxic compounds. The militarys mission means that hazards cannot always be predicted since service often occurs in a wide array of uncontrolled environments. The usual first line of defense, area monitoring, is not applicable due to the variable workplace facing the military. Thus, personal dosimeters are required that measure a person's exposure to ...

ABSTRACT: Maintenance and sustainment are critical to structural integrity and availability of US Air Force aircraft.The first line of defense against corrosion is coatings and protection systems that provide barriers to the environment and inhibit corrosion of structural alloys.There are currently no methods or monitoring techniques to assess protection system condition, corrosive ingress into ai ...

ABSTRACT: Coatings on large aircraft undergo significant flexure, creating corrosion sites at seams and fasteners due to the formation of paint bridges on the substrate. Current coatings in use are based on polysulfide chemistry, contain chrome inhibitors, and do not consistently meet flexibility requirements of MIL-PRF-32239A. Luna will develop a next generation chrome-free flexible primer based ...