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OSD is currently seeking compact and lightweight thermal management systems (TMS) for airborne and ground-based high-power microwave (HPM), high-energy laser (HEL), and directed energy weapons (DEW) systems that are capable of dissipating extremely high heat fluxes at temperatures potentially below the heat rejection temperature. Therefore, Mainstream proposes demonstrating a vapor-compression-cy ...

This STTR phase II proposal addresses AFOSR's task to: "Develop seamless, easy to use, efficient code to calculate electronic wave functions and potential energy surfaces of molecules and predict kinetic rate constants for reactions a priori." This is a long-unsolved problem, fundamental to chemistry, where quantum chemical methods must be extremely accurate to yield reliable rate constants. Yet u ...

The development of tractable mathematical models of gradient-frequency nonlinear resonator networks is critical to advanced computer applications that require faithful computer simulation of human attention and/or perception. Conventional linear resonator models are computationally and analytically tractable, however tractability is achieved at the expense of capturing many significant features of ...

Optical sensors and human eye are highly vulnerable to damage by laser irradiation. The advent of wavelength-tunable, high-powered and ultrashort-pulsed lasers has made currently-available protective techniques ineffective. To protect the sensitive optical equipments or eye from these lasers, protective devices must be able to work self-adaptively and automatically with broad spectral response whi ...

The conceptual design of a novel, hypersonic electromagnetic launch system has been developed. Phase-1 assumed a 100-kg projectile leaving the launcher at 7,000 m/sec. The projectile is propelled and levitated by electromagnetic forces inside a tube filled with low pressure helium. A controlled acceleration profile, fully adjustable to the requirements of various missions, is used to reach 5000 ge ...

Helmet-Mounted Displays (HMDs) do not allow the pilot to raise or lower a tinted visor when moving from a high to low light level condition. A variable transmittance visor was requested to solve this problem. The EclipseView™ is well suited for light modulation applications. The EclipseView™ modulates light intensity by changing color under an applied electric field (approx 1.5V). The optical ...

Long lead time to launch satellites has created the need for low cost plug and play thermal control components. An alternative to passive thermal systems (louvers, etc.) is active thermal management provided by the Eclipse Variable Emissivity Electrochromic Device (VED). Eclipse VED™s: modulate emissivity; can be applied to curved surfaces; are space/vacuum durable; reduce launch weight through ...

Silver Engineering, Inc. (SEI) and Planning Systems, Inc. (PSI) propose, in Phase II of this SBIR program, to develop and deliver a functionally tested, AFSCN-compatible Satellite Programmable Frequency Transceiver (SPFT) that is suitable for a short duration LEO satellite mission. The production SPFT architecture and EEE parts selection will support LEO satellites with missions of 3 to 5 years o ...

Commanders are required to make mission-critical decisions based on large amounts of distributed, fragmented information. Modus Operandi proposes to develop an innovative software tool to reason about these events and decisions using a semantic process model. DEEP addresses the most pressing technical challenge for decision reasoning; how to focus the ontology and reasoner on the subset of facts ...

This proposal describes an ontological approach for the development of the cybercraft concept. A methodology is presented to capture and define the cybercraft components, data, and interfaces. The methodology is used in a collaborative effort to ensure the knowledge capture process includes relevant players in the cybercraft community. A number of technological tools are proposed to assist in the ...