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SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) seeks government support for the development of a sustainable and evolvable platform to provide persistent capabilities in GEO-space. As envisioned, this platform will enable a wealth of new capabilities at reduced cost compared to current systems and solutions.

On December 31, 2014, it was disclosed that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was unable to fire its guns due to a glitch in the software, delaying production of the aircraft until 2019. Current industry tools for ensuring software quality statically check the code for security and run-time vulnerabilities that are often the cause of failure in complex software systems. Unfortunately, these tools suff ...

Shared Spectrum Company and HS Owen LLC propose a program to develop and demonstrate innovative methods to increase the predictability and realization of long link distance maritime communications to support mission planning and enable new mission capabilities. Anomalous propagation (i.e., ducting) leads to significantly increased link ranges. The project purpose is to develop the Anomalous Propag ...

This proposal outlines an FPAA-based analog processing architecture that supports multi-chip module cascading, can be integrated into complex mixed analog-digital processing environments and can host sophisticated signal processing algorithms such as PDE-derived algorithms. The central innovation of the proposed effort lies in the physical device approach to embedded computing that breaks the ener ...

This proposal outlines an FPAA-based analog processing architecture that supports multi-chip module cascading, can be integrated into complex mixed analog-digital processing environments and can host sophisticated signal processing algorithms such as PDE-derived algorithms. The central innovation of the proposed effort lies in the physical device approach to embedded computing that breaks the ener ...

Breakthroughs in the development of neural interface technologies have been prevelent over the last decade, in large part due to the success of DARPA-funded technologies under the Reliable-Neural Interface Technology (RE-NET) program. These advancements have included state-of-the-art prosthetics controlled by neural interfaces as well as implementation of sensitization using interfaced prosthetics ...

Exploitation of new chip-scale optical frequency comb sources demands improvements in the performance of MWIR/LWIR detectors. These detectors must meet the following specifications: High speed ( < 5 GHz), high-sensitivity (NEP < 1pW/Hz^1/2), broad spectral response (Octave), all at TEC operating temperatures. At present, no single detector exists that meet these demanding performance parameters. I ...

Modern day close-in missile defense systems such as the Navy Phalanx CIWSand its land-based counterpart: the Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM)consist of a mechanically gimballed 20 mm Gatling gun linked to a microwave radar system for detecting and tracking targets. Long-range engagement of diverse, maneuvering targets places significant accuracy requirements on the radar and gimbal, a ...

We propose a plan sentinel prototype consisting of three components. The first component is the development of a plan mining tool which identifies and computes false or missing assumptions and deviations to plans and time phased tasks. The second component, the annotated database, computes plans which the plan mining tool access and parses into a logical annotated rule set. Finally, MAVIS, a to ...

High speed, low cost optical self routing optical crossbar switches with gigabit data rates are key components in optical communication and routing systems. We propose to fabricate and study a monolithically integrated optical crossbar switch which will be inexpensive and high performance. This integrated switch utilizes thin film emitters and detectors integrated directly onto a host integrated c ...