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Development of a low-cost, near term approach to flight testing a hypersonic, storable fuel, scramjet engine using ballistic range technology is proposed. Flight-testing is easily the most expensive component of the triad of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), ground-testing and flight-testing needed to develop and demonstrate sustained and accelerating airbreathing flight at hypersonic speeds. ...

There is a critical need for an all weather capability to detect and classify military targets concealed in foliage and/or camouflage. Recent advances in high resolutions synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology, operating at low frequencies (VHF-UHF), have demonstrated significant capability for detection and classification of such targets. However, one of the primary difficulties is the signi ...

A novel architecture employing optimized space-time-frequency processing to meet the seemingly disparate requirements imposed by FOPEN SAR and MTI is presented. Two primary techniques are discussed: (a) simultaneous, long-dwell multibeam receive processing and (b) wideband, udorandomly hopped frequency employ multiple, wideband antenna elements each wi ...

The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative process-driven approach for information integrated management of the Product Realization Process (PRP). The product of this research, the Integrated Framework for Engineering Decision Support (I-FEDS) will support multi-disciplinary, distributed design teams through the collaborative PRP decision making process. The Phase I pro ...

This SBIR Phase I project is directed toward the development of a new technology for discovery of new high-energy permanent magnetic that will have potential military and civilian applications. Discovery of new materials with the ming and rather unpredictable trial-and-error process. This proposal describes a unique way of synthesizing and testing ...

The number of mines buried throughout the world and the cost to remove them demonstrate an urgent need for field-deployable detection technologies. Current technologies being developed are large and not man-portable. Biosensors and immunoassay techniques are excellent detectors for these low vapor pressure explosive targets due to their inherent sensivity and specificity at the ppb and ppt level ...

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WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW LIGHT SHUTTER APPROACH TO PROVIDE OCULAR PROTECTION FOR PERSONNEL AGAINST LASER RADIATION. THE LIGHT SHUTTER INVOLVES THE APPLICATION OF A REVERSE PHASE MODE POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL (PDLC) WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN OUR LABORATORIES. THE REVERSE PHASE MODE PDLC SYSTEM PROVIDES LC ALIGNMENT AND THUS GOOD OPTICAL TRANSMISSION IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY APPLIED FIELDS ...

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