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The development of a precision air delivery carrier capable of accurately emplacing ground based sensors is a critical step towards improving our nation's overall situation awareness. The United States Government has a multitude of sensors that collect and report information ranging from the crest height of waves to the presence of harmful chemical agents. Unfortunately, if these sensors are not ...

A MASINT vehicle was designed and fabricated in the Phase I effort as a likely candidate to successfully integrate the magnetic payload requested in the solicitation. In this effort, it is proposed to commence flight testing of the prototype aircraft and integrate a magnetic payload to demonstrate feasibility to perform MASINT missions.

In this Phase I STTR program, Advanced Ceramics Research Inc. (ACR) and its university partner successfully developed and optimized a novel, low-cost, micro/milli-channel heat exchanger system for high power electronic applications for the Navy and other DoD applications. ACR used the extrusion freeform fabrication process to create the novel heat exchange structures. The samples were tested in si ...

Phase II would utilize a RDTS sensor and three PSRS sensors to verify the concept and capabilities of an `over the water' intruder detection system. The proposed project would utilize multiple high-resolution radar sensors, with overlapping coverage zones, to detect surface targets. Each radar sensor acts independently and reports its own set of intruders. A single Control Station would receive a ...

This proposal describes a robust wireless communications and power transfer link between a submarine missile control system and weapons encapsulated in submarine launch tubes. Our approach is based on electromagnetic induction. Here we propose a Phase II SBIR project that will use finite element modeling, communications modeling, and an prototype development to develop engineering design parameter ...

Future military action may be more covert, which will involve more stealth technology integrated into military hardware. New navy ships are in design with a low profile and sloped sides in order to reflect radar away from hostile receivers. Other ship components will also need to be upgraded. Current light fixtures have geometries that can reflect radar waves back toward hostile receivers. The ...

A novel approach to conducting long-range surveillance using small unmanned air vehicles is proposed. The effort builds on the concepts developed and demonstrated in Phase I. This includes air vehicle technology, data links, flight operations, sensors and communications networks. A detailed work plan in presented. The effort will culminate in a demonstration of the proposed technologies.

A net-centric multi-INT system of systems is described and proposed to perform a maritime demonstration that exploits the advantages of publisher/subscribers and distributed information products with dynamic retasking of sensors and sensor platforms.

The continuous increase in integrated circuit (IC) scaling and complexity means that there are less output pins per transistor on the chip, resulting in reduced observability, controllability and insufficient test coverage. External testing of the IC has therefore become complex, time intensive and expensive. The answer is to use Built In Self Test (BIST). The use of BIST can, however, affect th ...

During Phase I, Pinnacle Technology Inc. and Aviation Simulation Technology Inc. (AST) designed a distributed digital input/output (I/O) bus to replace the cumbersome discrete wire bundle used in all military and commercial flight simulators. After analysis of latency, compatibility with existing systems, power delivery potential, cable length constraints and bandwidth issues, Pinnacle/AST chose ...