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MZA proposes to investigate real-time compensation of laser beams projected from aircraft using modeling, simulation, and flight tests.Specifically, we will conduct flight tests with both conventional and predictive adaptive optics acting on a laser be...

The pace of warfare is increasing rapidly with the emergence of numerous asymmetrical threats exhibiting complex interdependencies and shifting alliances. Never has it been more essential to acquire detailed tactical intelligence in time scales in hours ...

Descartes Labs’ first-of-its-kind overhead imagery analysis, monitoring and forecasting platform provides: 1. Analysis-ready time sequences of global, persistent multi-sensor public and commercial satellite imagery; 2. Machine learning algorithms for rapid development of solutions; and 3. Dissemination of solutions as continually updated high-level business intelligence products via open standar ...

Propagation of high-energy short-pulse laser light through the atmosphere must contend with not only the phase aberrations induced by atmospheric turbulence, but also a cadre of nonlinear phenomena that can reduce the efficacy of light delivery to a target. During this effort, we are investigating several adaptive optics designs that should improve the compensation of distributed aberrations in th ...

The primary objective of the Nano-Optomechanical Massive MEMS Accelerometer (NOMMA) project is to develop a chip-integrated optomechanical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometer with 100 ng/Hz1/2 sensitivity and 10 kHz bandwidth using high

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 ...

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 ...

We propose a unique system for massively distributed social problem-solving that will enable large groups of individuals to form solutions to complex, multi-factor problems. Our minimalist framework, called the ePluribus Solver, will leverage the viral nature of communication in existing social networks to engage individuals in the problem solving process and allow them to develop their own emerge ...

MSIs Phase I efforts demonstrated a concept for massively distributed social problem-solving that we propose to develop into a full-featured framework enabling communities to form solutions to complex, multi-factor problems. The ePluribus Solver is motivated by the wisdom of the crowds philosophy that proposes that a solution can emerge from a large, diverse group that is superior to a solution fo ...

Investment castings have well served both the military and commercial markets in such areas as waveguides and splitters for microwave applications, and for connectors, housings, heat sinks and mechanical parts for electronics, optical, instrumentation, and medical devices. Tomorrow's higher RF millimeter wave and communications electronics products, and more compact optical, instrumentation and m ...