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Commodity graphics processing units (GPUs) offer tremendous computational throughput for relatively little cost. They have been shown to outperform microprocessors in the important metrics of FLOPS/dollar, FLOPS/Watt, and FLOPS/unit space and have already been applied to a wide range of numerically intense problems. In Phase I of this project, we demonstrated their potential to enhance complex C ...

Panoramic cameras that are capable of capturing very large field of view (FOV) scenes are offering new opportunities and great potentials for video surveillance systems, because of the increased area coverage, improved spatial resolution, and lower installation cost. Despite these advantages, surveillance system engineers are still reluctant to use panoramic cameras since they are still relatively ...

Kyma Technologies, a leading supplier of low defect density GaN substrates, is teamed together with the three subcontractors at Princeton University, Lehigh University and Purdue University where some of the best lattice-matched quaternary (In,Ga,Al)N or ternary structures in the world have been produced, to propose the development of the world¡¦s first high-performance III-N quantum cascade las ...

This Phase II SBIR effort will design and demonstrate enabling technology for fast text processing in the presence of noisy inputs while achieving semantically rich extractions of actionable knowledge from unstructured text data. The successful Phase I project demonstrated the ability to process ten gigabytes of raw text data in less than 15 minutes, the DARPA Phase I benchmark. The proposed Pha ...

QuesTek Innovations LLC proposes to expand its computational Materials by Design® technology by developing a “design toolkit” that enables the computational design and development of oxidation- and creep-resistant ductile multicomponent Molybdenum-based superalloys for use at 1300C and above. The proposed toolkit will build upon key mechanistic insights gained in the Phase I program and en ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project develops novel materials processing and device design that extract the maximum possible performance out of the lithium niobate electro-optic material. The novel modulator device incorporates reconfigurable quasi-phase matching (RQPM) to produce an arbitrary RF bandpass response. The Phase I effort has laid a firm foundation for the creation ...

The proposed project will undertake the research, design, and development of key concepts and technologies for extended duration optical arbitrary waveform generator (OAWG) over large bandwidth, based on a monolithically integrated high-speed optoelectronic chip with a unique integrated ultimate-resolution super-compact grating (URSCG). The proposed OAWG is capable of continuously extendable dura ...

SI2 proposes to apply its metamaterial and antenna systems expertise to design and build an efficient miniature wideband metamaterial antenna system that performs close to the theoretical limits of gain and efficiency. The antenna system can be mounted on a number of platforms as the loading effects of mounting are mitigated due to the proposed novel approach. Our approach also includes an intel ...

Discovering the important evidence in the form of activities, actors and relationships in a sea of open source data requires the ability to extract and correlate seemingly unrelated pieces of data, distinguish that data from the noise of harmless civilian activity and find the hidden attributes and relationships that characterize the true threat. To meet these requirements, the DAC BOBCAT Team pr ...

The real-time implementation of controls in nonlinear systems remains one of the great challenges in applying advanced control technology. Often, linearization around a set point is the only practical approach, and many controllers implemented in hardware systems are simple PID feedback mechanisms. To apply Pontryagin’s principle or Bellman’s equation using conventional hardware and algorith ...