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The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of vacuum micro-packaging for devices such as MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers. Vacuum is critical for high Q-factor, surface-micromachined MEMS. Robust, low-cost solutions are needed for applications such as guided munitions and unattended sensors. Proposed work focuses on long-term reliability issues, such as outgassing, perme ...

Aerovironmet Inc. proposes to undertake Phase I of DDARPA SBIR 962-080 to develop and assess operational utility of micro air vehicles (micro AV) for unique military applications. We will downselect from nine general categories of airframes, four general categories of propulsion systems to a minimum of five conceptual designs. These design concepts will be evaluated against notional mission sce ...

The emergence of compact products employing mixed technologies, such as personal digital assistants, wireless communicators and sensor systems, is creating a host of new needs in electronics packaging. These products are driven by small size, light weight, high-operating frequencies, unique micro-to-macro interfacing and low-cost. There is a need for a simplified and reliable process for direct ...

Decontamination of military personnel, equipment and facilities that have been exposed to deadly biological and / or chemical warfare agents is of critical concern to U.S. Armed Forces. Conventional technologies used for decontamination and sterilization suffer from drawbacks that include toxic effluents, radiation hazards to personnel, and very long time scales for the decontamination process pr ...

BCL proposes developing an Adaptive Personal Assistant (APA) to assist professionals dramatically improve productivity of office automation tasks. The APA will take normal spoken English requests and perform tasks such as electronic mail, meeting coordination, and flight scheduling, and then adapt and optimize the output according to the user's preferences. In addition, the system will take the ...

The world is already littered with 100 million mines in more than 60 countries, and mines are still being laid at the rate of 2.5 million per year. Mines contributed a significant percentage of total troop and equipment losses in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam; and mines and other exploded ordnance (UXO) continue killing civilians long after the conflicts themselves have ended. The lack of effective de ...

The Computer Department Limited (CDL) proposes to develop a portable, rotary wing platform for use as a universal lifting body for small payloads. This system will use a novel lifting system to operate with a wide range of payloads under a wide spectrum of environmental conditions. The key elements of this system is a light weight collapsable structure, electric propulsion, rotary wing design fo ...

The objective of this effort is to develop a generic process for mechanically grafting MEMS devices onto an arbitrary substrate. Such a process will enable the production of smart sensors and actuators without the device limitations imposed by combined MEMS/CMOS processing. Thinning of the MEMS substrate coupled with wafer-scale handling of discrete MEMS devices on an intermediate carrier substr ...

EOO, Inc. proposes to develop a chemical and biological agent detection system (C-BADS) that can perform battlefield surveillance so that information about the presence and nature of chemical and biological hazards can be rapidly conveyed to our battlefield commanders. The ideal capability that is needed, but not currently available, is a sensor suite mounted in an airborne platform that can prov ...

Perceptronics and its team members Moller International and Flyer Group will design a complete elevated sensing system for forward-deployed combat units. The system, called COVER (Commander's Observation Vehicle for Elevated Reconnaissance), features an existing compact, electrically-tethered, ducted-fan lifting vehicle (Aerobot) mated to an existing highly-mobile, transportable vehicle (Flyer II ...