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ABSTRACT: As stated in the solicitation, the Air Force spends $4.5 billion annually on aircraft maintenance related to corrosion. A significant fraction of this expenditure could be saved by a Corrosion Mitigation System (CMS) that both limited a shelter's indoor relative humidity to less than 50% while capturing airborne chloride particles. However, these functions, particularly humidity c ...

ABSTRACT: Silicon-based lasers/detectors have long been desired for owing to the possibility of monolithic integration of photonics with high-speed Si electronics and the aspiration of broadening the reach of Si technology by expanding its functionalities well beyond electronics. The goal of this project is to first develop high quality SiGeSn material and then use it to demonstrate prototype opt ...

Our objective is to develop an intelligent communications hub, or gateway device, capable of interconnecting wearable technologies with an array of wireless local and wide area communications systems like LMR, commercial & public safety 3G/LTE, WiFi, and mesh networking. To address this, MaXentric is proposing a solution capable of not only interconnecting devices to communications networks, but a ...

To meet the need for enhanced defense against distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), Grier Forensics proposes developing SPAIN: Single Packet Abuse Interdiction Network. SPAIN amplifies the effectiveness and power of DDoS defenses, reversing the current asymmetry to instead favor the defender. Instead of the passive, isolated, single point defense in use today, SPAIN creates an active, di ...

In response to the A13-004 Remote Triage of Combat Casualties solicitation, MaXentric proposes the VitalWave system. The VitalWave system uses Doppler radar and radar imaging to assess the vital signs individuals. The use of Doppler radar allows for a system that can measure vital signs with no direct contact required. This allows first responders the ability to assess the vital signs of multiple ...

The SBIR Phase I effort demonstrated that a successful Subsea Long Haul Optical Transponder (SLOT) design for transmitting data from a branched sensor node onto a trunk cable and back to a shore terminus must consider the overall trunk cable system transmission characteristics. The SBIR Phase I study resulted in a viable SLOT concept. The Phase II effort develops the Core Transponder Module (CTM) ...

Debris mitigation for both RF and EO/IR sensors is necessary for improving the BMDS against raid scenarios. The time and length scales important to debris mitigation span a large range, and are dependent upon engagement conditions. To address the problem of debris mitigation, accurate debris fields must be modeled for all potential engagement conditions, that is validated to the best sources of ...

To evaluate the BMDS from an engineering and statistical perspective, high-run-count simulations (HRCS) must be performed to more completely sample the scenario space. If HRCS can provide statistically significant results that are validated against higher fidelity simulations, HWIL and live fire test, they can be a very powerful tool in engineering studies, performance estimation and trade studie ...

Both polarization controllers and phase modulators are widely used in telecommunications and other applications. Presently, most polarization controllers and phase modulators cannot handle high optical power up to 10 W/channel. In this SBIR program, researchers of Fontus Applied Technologies propose an innovative polarization controller and a phase modulator using our advanced electro-optic tech ...

This proposal seeks to apply proprietary advances in innovative solid state reserve battery technology and advanced Lithium -ion battery materials to solve powering issues for certain reserve battery requirements for armaments and munitions. This work combines multiple innovations including novel energy transformation and advanced battery material technology.