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The Aeronix Phase I task will address the problem of incorporating Imagery/High Speed Fleet Broadcast (HSFB) Receive Only Capability into the Multi-Mission Advanced Tactical Terminal (MATT) System. The significance of this effort is providing additional capability for field users of the MATT system. The MATT system connects military platforms with secure communications networks to provide tactical ...

This proposal by AET, Inc., directly addresses the computer aided-design system needs of the process and device development for the Low Power Electronics program. Besides the need for a commercial silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, significant reductions in process and device dimensions will be required. The combination of SOI material and small geometry devices will mean that wafer fab manufa ...

Reverse Osmosis, as an effective method for recovery of fresh water from seawater by desalination, is gaining considerable attention. The problems associated with reverse osmosis process are the concentration polarization and membraine fouling, which cause the decline of membrane flux and require the use of higher system pressure and regularly cleaning. Frequent cleaning not only is a cost operat ...

The Air Force's need to identify hostile threats from beyond visual range is an essential goal if air superiority is to be maintained into the next century. One promising avenue of non-cooperative identification lies in the characterization of physical attributes associated with a particular threat. Such physical attributes can be derived from reception and analysis of radar pulses emitted from ...

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The objective of this project is to develop new or improved systems for electronic processing and management of text and images (film and video from electron and optical microscopes. Processing electronic images with film quality creates unique problems with both analog and digital formats. Tradeoffs in cost, convenience of use, speed, flexibility and quality must be made in order to integ ...

Under the current U.S. Navy budget constrained environment it is desirable to get added functional performance from existing sonar systems. One such case is the need to provide instantaneous bearing ambiguity resolution for threat torpedoes at tactically significant ranges via U.S. Navy Surface Ship towed arrays. A multi-line towed array sonar system is recommended as a Bearing Ambiguity Resolut ...

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The Phase I Project will develop a comprehensive model to evaluate and optimize state-of-the-art light-emitting diodes for optical memories, optical computing, and fiber or free-space photonic interconnects. The innovation is the development of resonant optical cavity LEDs and a proprietary low-cost epitaxy technology for their fabrication. A unified approach to the design of LEDs with resonant op ...

AstroPower proposes to develop gallium phosphide (GaP) ultraviolet (UV) sensors for engine combustion control. The UV spectra from the free radial combustion components correlates with combustion effectivity in terms of predetonation, and provides a real time basis for central control of excess air ratio, internal combustion temperatures, and other fuel injector parameters. A system for the engine ...