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There is a current need for small heavy fuel engines that are light and reliable enough to be used in a variety of applications, such as UAV propulsion. The challenges for such an engine are in meeting the often stringent and competing requirements of high thermal efficiency and high power to weight ratio. Microturbines lack in thermal efficiency and small diesel engines lack in power to weight. ...

Increasingly, enemy forces employ technologies that either depend on RF communications or produce detectable RF signatures. Thus, there are many types of RF signals and signatures that can be detected over a variety of different frequency bands and environments by RF sensors. When received, this information can be exploited to confront or avoid potential threats. These sensors operate on differe ...

The strength of the United States military is highly dependent upon the continued superiority of intellectual resources and technology in the battle arena. Emerging trends indicate that fewer students are pursuing education in the sciences and technology. In an effort to reverse this trend, researchers are working to engage students through interactive educational software. However, a recent U. ...

There is a growing recognition that simulations representing social and political phenomena are very useful to today’s military to support planning and execution of operations associated with irregular warfare. While many technical challenges are being addressed by DARPA, social science simulations still present an overarching problem: methods and capabilities to show that a simulation is work ...

Presently, scanning and zooming of imaging optics is achieved with bulky mechanical gimbals or using multiple focal plane arrays and associated optics to cover the wide field of view. These approaches are not only expensive in terms of power, size and weight, but also costly. Alternatively, the use of liquid crystal (LC) lenses, LC spatial light modulators and LC scanners in zooming and scanning ...

Logos Technologies (Logos) will design an innovative imagery compression system capable of coding and storing airborne Wide Area Persistent Surveillance (WAPS) imagery at 20 Gigapixel/second rates (2 Gigapixel frames, 10 Hz frame rate). The proposed Logos system will co-register and combine frames from the WAPS image sequence into reference imagery, which will represent the stable background scen ...

In response to the DARPA Game World SBIR solicitation topic, the Mosaic ATM team, including Utah State University, proposes the Instructional Simulation Author and Play System (ISAPS). ISAPS will leverage the passion and creativity of many of our Nation’s educators to create hundreds of free, highly educational simulation games spanning a broad range of science learning. Innovative aspects of th ...

NanoSonic has developed a proprietary nanostructured spray self-assembly (SSA) manufacturing technique for the production of super lightweight (0.98g/cc) conformal coatings and space tolerant structures with multiple controlled static or variable electromagnetic (EM) properties. Resultant highly thermally conductive Ceramic Rubber™ inorganic/organic hybrid nanocomposites offer homogenous therma ...

This program would investigate the feasibility of molecular-level “bottom-up” chemical processing to form metamaterials for operation in the visible and near-IR portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) processes would be used to pattern multilayer arrays of straight and curved conducting segments dimensioned to resonantly absorb electric and magnetic field co ...

This proposal offers a revolution in the way that we think about capturing and sharing human thought. We submit that improvements in the rapidity and accuracy of transfer of human thought will follow naturally when the initial transfer is done right – that is, when knowledge is first made meaningful and objective. Concept Maps are a graphical display of knowledge that is comprised of concepts co ...