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Quality control tools for compound semiconductor operations are desired to provide cost and time savings. 8D Photonics (www.8Dphotonics.com) has been providing the infrared community with the capability to perform cryogenic wafer mapping of minority carrier lifetime and photoluminescence spectra since its inception in 2016. The 8D IR Pioneer wafer mapping system has already demonstrated cooling an ...

Per the Strategic Radiation-Hardened Electronics Council (SRHEC) Program Needs Report #4 version 1, February 2022, the overall goal for analog and mixed signal components is to keep pace with and leverage current industrial investments. GlobalFoundries (GF) 12nm and Intel 16 have been identified as two of the State-of-the-Art processes (SOTA). Analog and mixed signal devices have been identified a ...

MZA is proposing to build on the Phase I work that leveraged both finite element modeling (FEM) and additive manufacturing (AM) to simultaneously reduce the size, weight and power (SWaP) and improve the jitter performance of optical mounts in directed energy (DE) systems. For Phase II, the design refinement strategy will be adapted to both mounts and structural assemblies in a quarter scale beam d ...

In Phase I Goodman Technologies (GT) will perform a feasibility study of Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials from a database of optical system and materials vendors compiled over the years, which investigates the design and manufacture of innovative telescope optics that trade cost, weight, optical performance, and stability in the endo- and exo-atmospheric environments, and in a manmade radiation env ...

Verus Research will apply its advancements in novel radar waveform technologies coupled with our high-fidelity physics-based modeling and simulation software tools and hardware-in-the-loop radar test-beds to design, optimize and demonstrate an optimized suite of X-band waveforms. Details of our approach are presented in our technical volume. Approved for Public Release | 21-MDA-11013 (19 Nov 21)

InfoBeyond advocates DB&DL (Threat Classification and Reasoning by Dynamic Bayesian Network, Description Logic, and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets) to provide threat classification refinement with advanced contextual reasoning capabilities. It takes all the sensing data, text/messages, and human judgments into account for optimal defense decision-making through the full life cycle of a threat. Advanced ...

MZA is proposing to use both system and component level finite element modeling along with rapid prototyping enabled by additive manufacturing (AM) to iteratively design and test low SWaP optical mounts that passively isolate jitter. Each directed energy system has its own unique jitter challenges, and by developing a process to tune optical mount performance to its jitter environment, jitter can ...

Three Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) solutions for space-based applications were demonstrated feasible during the previous phase. IDEAS-TEK proposed to manufacture and test for space two of the solutions based on two different chipsets. The third solution will be demonstrated through a testing vehicle consisting of silicon prototype of a Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) ASIC Compute Unit (CU). ...

TiER1’s proposed SCYTHE (Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities) system will advance the state-of-the-art in cyber operator training technologies. SCYTHE combines proven technologies and gameful learning design with innovative advances in intelligent agent authoring capabilities. SCYTHE leverages your training sandbox where trainee cyber defenders interact with SCYTHE’s advanced attacker ...

The use of GPUs in space is desirable as they provide means to boost the performance of CPU-based computers in a spacecraft. This will enable the processing of raw sensing data on-board, reducing significantly the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to the ground. This represents savings in power and radio link bandwidth/complexity. Unfortunately, as all microelectronics, modern GPUs are s ...