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Radio Frequency (RF) offers many advantages over Electro-Optical/Infrared for seekers on hypersonic electromagnetic rail guns (EMRG) launched interceptors, but has not been used due to the small aperture limited by the projectile diameter. Tanner Research has overcome this limitation with the endfire antenna, with an aperture that depends on its length, making it ideal for projectile platforms. ...

Liquid fuel based Divert Attitude and Control Systems (DACS) or LDACS propulsion offers superior performance for future flight systems compared to solids (SDACS) or compressed gas systems. The need for improved system performance while meeting strict safety and insensitive munitions (IM) standards represents a unique opportunity for Ogden Engineering & Associates, LLC to showcase the team"s novel ...

Diode Pumped Alkali Vapor Lasers (DPAL) are a promising technology for high power directed energy lasers because of several favorable characteristics, notably the small quantum defect which results in very little deposition of waste heat in the lasing medium and potentially good conversion efficiency and beam quality. Existing diode pumps have spectra that are too wide and inaccurately controlle ...

ChromoLogic LLC is developing Quantitative Optical Traceability Technology ("QuanTEK") to meet the need for a secure, rapid, and cost effective authentication of electronic components. QuanTEK consists of optical enrollment and authentication subsystems that allow the operators at multiple points in the supply chain to securely transmit information related to the identity and origin of electronic ...

Hypergolic fuels are used in missiles for inducing spontaneous ignition. These fuels are toxic, and require monitoring of leakage. In Phase I, InnoSense LLC (ISL) developed a working model and demonstrated the detection of Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). ISL"s detector exhibits immunity to interferents, showing long-term operational stability, and withstands shock and vibr ...

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) proposes to continue adapting and maturing its recently developed intrinsically safe hypergolic leak detection technology, based on its well-established optical sensing techniques, for a modular liquid hypergolic propulsion (LHP) leak detection sensor. IOS has identified stable and sensitive colorimetric indicators for monomethylhydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen oxide ...

The purpose of this project is to develop coatings for use inside of the gain cavity of next generation Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs). These coatings will be applied to transparent surfaces of the cavity used to couple the pump energy into the gain media and allow the transmission of the alkali lasing wavelength. Both of these benefits will improve DPAL performance and extend lifetime. Acre ...

Advanced laser diode technology developed using silicon MEMS packaging enables the construction of an efficient and compact line-narrowed diode stack combined with a Volume Brag Grading (VBG) to create a Diode Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL). A single laser diode bar, with 20pm spectral line-width, has demonstrated more than 30W of CW output power at 780nm pumping a rubidium vapor laser. However, cur ...

The objective of the proposed research and development effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative approach to high performance and highly controllable solid rocket propulsion for advanced Divert and Attitude Control Systems (DACS) using powdered propellants.The proposed propulsion approach is capable of delivering a high level of specific impulse performance and a very large number ...

In Phase II Physical Optics Corporation (POC) seeks to advance the development of the new man-portable multifrequency microwave inspection (M3I) system successfully proven feasible in Phase I. M3I is based on the use of near-field microwave inspection with a new property reconstruction algorithm augmented by an artificial neural network to determine nonconductive, multi-layer composite properties ...