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In the Phase I project, Ultramet designed, modeled, fabricated, and tested a compact foam-based cryogenic heat exchanger for use as part of a superconducting degaussing system. Several heat exchanger cores were tested, thermal efficiencies in excess of 99% were achieved, and the pressure drop was always

Ballistic Devices will develop a capacitor that utilizes Cubic Zirconia, a single crystal high-K dielectric material. The single crystal design approach is expected to enable orders of magnitude improvement in energy density over conventional ceramic capacitor designs. It is expected that these components will be able to operate at near the theoretical dielectric breakdown field strength and enabl ...

To address the Navys need for a man-packable, wireless microserver with clustering to support company-sized units and below, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Man-Packable Expeditionary Tactical Server (METS). METS is based on a multiprocessor design with software defined radio (SDR) for tactical communication and data distribution, solid-state disk storage for speed and ...

The Osterhout Design Group (ODG) has considerable time and effort invested in the design and preliminary development of micro cloud server technology, and is proposing to fully develop the technology through the SBIR process to provide the US Marine Corps the robust remote user data processing device they require. The ODG Micro-Cloud Server (MCS) is a man-packable server technology currently unava ...

PolyPlus Battery Company has identified that by transitioning its PLE based Li-Seawater Battery Technology to a more optimal circular geometry, battery length in a Type A sonobuoy can be decreased by as much as 50% compared to a square form factor, and by this expedient provides sonobuoy battery component flexibility and the potential for enhanced power and overall sonobuoy performance.

To address the Navy need to provide existing and emerging single-transceiver radios with the capability to autonomously and dynamically access and manage spectrum, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Single Transceiver Radio Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Access for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (STREAM) system. This system will allow single-transceiver radios in a platoon-sized mobil ...

This work provides technology that significantly extends the requirements requested in the topic in that it provides a full AO system performance and testing methodology while still recognizing the importance of the DM in such a system. Advanced mathematical techniques and sophisticated DM experimental evaluation systems are developed with an eye as to how the measured DM characteristics impact th ...

Over the past decade the research community has generated thousands of papers dealing with many different aspects of dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radios and opportunistic networking. Surprisingly, however, only a handful have addressed an end to end DSA communication system, and to the best of our knowledge none have looked at how DSA can be enabled in a single transceiver legacy radio. This ...

Building upon its expertise in bringing Low SWaP multi-antenna mesh networked MIMO radios to the market, Silvus Technologies proposes a 4 Antenna Software Defined Spectrum Monitor (SDSM) in response to this SBIR topic. The low SWaP of the SDSM will enable integration into the ScanEagle UAV with already existing meteorological and other payloads. In order to negate the effect of the 3D antenna patt ...

To address the Navys need for a high resolution refractive profile for high fidelity prediction of shipboard electromagnetic wave propagation environments, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Massively Parallel Refractive Environment Predictor (MPREP). This proposed system is based on a new design that uses fine-grain parallelism in the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) n ...