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In order to maintain our nation’s technological superiority on air, sea and land, we must respond quicker to emerging threats and reduce the cost of major sensing platforms. Every DoD platform developed nowadays contains at least one sensor, whether it be RF, EO/IR, or acoustic. In fact, in a lot of recent developments, the platform is built around the sensor and exists only to support the senso ...

The objective is to develop an ultra-high performance RF fiber-optic link using LiNbO3 device with improved efficiency and optical filtering techniques. The main goal is to achieve a RF fiber-optic link with optimized SFDR, link gain, and low noise figure simultaneously. The effort includes the development of higher efficiency LiNbO3 modulator and analyzing optical filtering techniques for applica ...

The objective is to develop an ultra-high performance optical frequency-domain modulation device that is truly frequency agile and capable of operation from DC to mm-wave frequencies for the next generation optical signal generation and signal transmission system for dual-use in defense/RF-analog and commercial/digital “Ultra-high-bit-rate” fiber-optic communication systems.

GHKN Engineering, LLC teamed with Aerojet Recmond, proposes to build and test a CDRE with a number of fuels and oxidizers. Included in the proposal test program is thrust measurement, which together with mass flow measurement will be used to evalute CDRE performance, (and efficiency), of detonation combustion in these devices. The engine planned for testing was designed by GHKN under the Phase I p ...

This program proposes to demonstrate an ultra-low power design methodology and circuits for digital logic employing advanced dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) circuits operating in sub-threshold to super-threshold voltage regimes. The power supply voltages of logic block partitions will be independently set by on-chip voltage controllers based on the data p ...

A new thruster technology, the Electrodeless Lorentz Force (ELF) thruster, has been designed and tested at MSNW that has the capability to address the demanding combined requirements of high specific power, high efficiency, a large Isp range, and T/P in a single, lightweight device. The ELF thruster creates a high-density, magnetized plasma known as a Field Reversed Configuration using Rotating Ma ...

Practical, low-cost, broadband, multi-octave (0-20+ GHz), high-dynamic-range, "linear" analog photonic links are needed in many DoD communications, radar, and surveillance applications. EOSPACE and University of California, San Diego are proposing to develop a practical, broadband (0-20GHz) linearized RF analog fiber-optic link, by using a broadband optical modulator design whose transfer function ...

Special technology and circuit architecture is under investigation for implementation of high performance, infra-red, and low power electronics technology. InSb and GaSb substrates have advantages that make them attractive and in use for high frequency stealth (such as the joint strike fighter) and commercial applications. A significant aspect inhibiting ready-to-use implementation of these wafers ...

The DARPA Phraselator is a, multilingual phrase translation system. The Phraselator is a rugged, weather resistant, voice-to-voice, translation device with superior audio input and output. It is available to both military and industrial users and more than 2,000 Phraselators have been manufactured and delivered. Because of the significant capabilities of this custom device, the cost is relative ...

The DARPA Phraselator is a, multilingual phrase translation system. The Phraselator is a rugged, weather resistant, voice-to-voice, translation device with superior audio input and output. It is available to both military and industrial users and more than 2,000 Phraselators have been manufactured and delivered. Because of the significant capabilities of this custom device, the cost is relative ...