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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 ...

A fast and precise measurement system is needed for production line testing of bobbin baselayers and wound bobbins. This system should also support investigations to establish the acceptance criteria. The video metrology machine proposed for Phase II will achieve rapid image acquisition by taking a sequence of video frames as the bobbin is rotated and translated through the field of view. The lase ...

Recent progress in the availability of low cost reinforced thermoplastic unidirectional tape provides a family of alternative composite systems for pultruded structures. Cost effective pultrusion of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic resins will be demonstrated in the Phase I effort of this program. A significant increase in speed is expected with the use of pre- impregnated material that is no ...

Acoustic lens design is proposed for the fabrication of underwater sonar systems for target acquisition. Building upon the vast knowledge of earlier acoustic lens research, the proposed study emphasizes the system integration with the objectives of compactness - both in size and weight, high performance - enhanced data processing speed and image refresh rate, high resolution, low power consumption ...

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