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Small satellites have proven capable and cost effective, and innovative payloads and technologies will expand the mission space that CubeSats can support. ATA proposes to build a CubeSat-sized laser communications prototype payload, adapting high photon efficiency optical communications techniques to achieve data transfer rates up to 100 mega-bits per second (Mbps) with the small apertures require ...

There has long been a need to quickly identify persons at long range with high accuracy.For tactical applications, solutions need to be compact, lightweight and frugal with power.Solutions also need to be fully functional in environments where communications are limited or non-existent.Challenges to meeting these requirements are: 1) obtaining sufficient face image resolution at long range, 2) rem ...

Multi-Purpose Canines (MPCs) are an integral aspect of the US military. The continued expansion and use of these indispensable force multipliers in an intense, ever-changing and complex battlefield requires enhancing their innate capabilities in a timely manner. Additionally, canines have a relatively short life span, and considering the substantial training period that MPCs must undergo, their ef ...

Areté Associates proposes to develop and deliver EnhancerPro 3-D, a near real-time, modular software tool based on Areté’s existing EnhancerPro tool and providing 3-D video and sonar model generation using Structure from Motion (SfM) algorithm toolchain.

During the proposed Phase II research and development effort, the project team will develop and demonstrate the Solid Propellant Engine for Enhanced Delta-V (SPECK-Ops) to provide a responsive, high-thrust orbital maneuvering, propulsion capability to CubeSats. The system will be tested simulated space environments and subject to various space qualification tests. The resulting propulsion system w ...

Naval aircraft often are subject to electromagnetic interference (EMI) due to external radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic effects (EME) with field strengths in excess of 12,000 V/m generated by radars operating at 400 MHz and above. They are also subject to generally less intense fields produced by internal or external sources such as handheld radios and antennas mounted to the aircraft. This EM ...

HyPerComps proposed effort will specifically address the following NAVAIR requirements: A method is contributing new ideas and innovations in both time-domain and frequency domain computational electromagnetics (CEM), especially in addressing accuracy and scalability for large-scale modeling of EM fields inside and around complex cavities, and computational efficiency for quick turnaround for freq ...

Radio Frequency over Fiber (RFoF) is not a new technology, fiber has been used to relay modulated analog signals for many years. The advent of multi-core fibers brings a new paradigm to the application. With the development of multicore fiber, the need for novel, accurate connection technologies has become imperative. The multi-core fiber, with single mode operating wavelengths of 1000nm to 1550nm ...

Fiber optic data links are attractive for their wide bandwidth, low weight, electromagnetic interference immunity and ability to transmit high fidelity analog and digital radio-frequency-over-fiber (RFoF) signals. Multicore fiber (MCF) links will provide even higher capacity and density and enhance dynamic range analog links using parallel fibers of precisely equal length. The need for a high-qual ...

The DoD S&T community’s understanding of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and related Planar Lightguide Circuit (PLC) reliability has gaps preventing full PIC deployment to defense avionics. Validation of PIC reliability is critical to enabling rapid transition to DoD programs. IFOS is leveraging its proven expertise in PIC-based systems to develop PIC reliability prediction models. We will lev ...