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Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

Currently, all JP10 is produced from fossil sources. The objective of the proposed project is to develop a scalable synthetic approach to producing JP-10 that meets military specification, MIL-DTL-87107E from non-fossil sustainable energy resources. During phase I, we will define, develop, and perform initial laboratory assessment of the proposed synthetic process to validate the technical feasi ...

Hypersonic weapons are one of the main priorities of the Department of Defense (DoD) activities since China and Russia have such capabilities (e.g. the DF-ZF, designated by Pentagon as the WU-14, is a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle that has been operational by China since 2019).  Due to the importance of these adversarial threats, the Navy, Army, and Air Force have programs for developing hy ...

The US Navy is searching for a cost effective and novel solution for launchable mini-glider sensor platforms which can be of three standard size form factors. The Great Lakes Sound & Vibration, Inc. (GLSV) proposed glider will have the ability to be launched from the deck of various surface vessels and be able to survive a 48-hour service life in up to sea state 6 (SS 6) conditions. The GLSV glide ...

InnoSys with the assistance of the University of Utah Nuclear Engineering Program (UU) proposes to develop a comprehensive and methodical approach to testing and characterizing the effects of X-ray, neutron, EMP, etc. on both the overall LEEFI/EFI and the various components (e.g. metals and dielectrics) that comprise the LEEFI/EFI. The ability of a low energy exploding foil initiator (LEEFI or EFI ...

Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) is a worldwide need. Current rescue efforts place human operators in harms way; vehicles, vessels and aircraft that are unmanned reduce this risk to humans. The Kairos Autonomi Universal Vehicle Controller (UVC) is a control unit that has the ability to automate and remotely control a wide array of different vehicles, surface vessels, or aircraft equip ...

Our goal for this Navy SBIR project is to develop a TRL-7 prototype of the BRG with excellent long-term bias stability and shock and vibration insensitivity that can operate in a military temperature range (-50–80 °C) and optionally can operate at very high temperature (200 °C) (i.e. bias drift < 0.01 deg/hr, angle random walk < 0.005 deg/sqrt(hr), and scale factor stability < 100 ppm).  We ...

Composite materials have become ubiquitous over the past two decades with greater use in naval structures due to the high specific strength, stiffness, and toughness offered with respect to other engineering materials. While fiber reinforced polymers have found wide use in commercial applications, currently used materials are costly and require extended cure times which greatly increases manufactu ...

SeaLandAire (SLA) will build on the work done in the Phase I effort to address the Navy’s need for a strengthened, full-duplex communications datalink between the surface unit of a sonobuoy and its suspended payload, as described in Navy SBIR Topic N221-023. SLA, along with our partner AFFOA, will develop, build and test prototype tethers.  We will design a fiber optic based tether which will a ...

The firm proposes a distributed fiber-optic sensing platform for structural health monitoring of aerospace composites, including event and damage detection, localization, and assessment.