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ALGORITHMS ARE DERIVED THAT DEFINE THE PATHS OF MAXIMUM COHERENCY FOR A SEISMIC EVENT GENERATED BY FIRING AN ARTILLERY WEAPON FROM AN ARBITRARY LOCATION. SIGNAL EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES ARE DESCRIBED TO EXTRACT THE COHERENT SIGNAL FROM AN EVENT RECORDED ON MULTIPLE RECEIVERS. SIMULATED BATTLEFIELD RECORDINGS ARE GENERATED BY TREATING THE SEISMIC SIGNATURE OF ARTILLERY WEAPONS AS IMPULSE RESPONSES FRO ...

Metalenses, with their ability to arbitrarily control the amplitude and phase of light across a band of wavelengths, have the potential to disrupt imaging and communication systems which rely on traditional lenses to focus, collimate, and otherwise manipulate optical signals, and are under increasing pressure to operate with reduced size and weight. We propose to design, develop, and demonstrate a ...

Metalenses, with their ability to arbitrarily control the amplitude and phase of light across a band of wavelengths, have the potential to disrupt imaging and communication systems which rely on traditional lenses to focus, collimate, and otherwise manipulate optical signals, and are under increasing pressure to operate with reduced size and weight with high performance over a large optical bandwi ...

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Battlefield injuries are unique in terms of severity, types, and combinations. The ability to develop therapeutics designed to treat a broad spectrum of battle injuries is a unique opportunity with significant positive benefits. In particular, increased capillary permeability/leak and ischemia-reperfusion injuries play a significant role in military injuries such as battlefield trauma, hemorrhagi ...

In light of the potential threat and related environmental durability requirements set forth in SOCOM SBIR solicitation #07-007, Exothermics and their Phase 1 program team propose the development and initial testing of a new family of ballistically-efficient, multi-threat, optically-transparent armor laminates for use in applications such as windscreens and sensor windows on special operations hel ...

Some of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) greatest concerns are to maintain the pilot’s ability to see clearly and to provide to the aircraft occupants a greater degree of UV rays, laser and ballistic protection than being currently afforded. However, the weight penalty suffered by the installation of current transparent armor systems would require significant loss of payloa ...

Some of the US Army SOCOM greatest concerns are to maintain the helicopter pilot’s ability to see clearly and to provide helicopter windscreens with a greater degree of erosion/abrasion protection than what is being currently afforded. Recent developments on polymer coatings demonstrate the potential to meet and exceed all erosion/abrasion resistance and optical requirements by using plasma depo ...

A completely new method is proposed to remotely measure the true temperature of substrates during chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes. Conventional radiation pyrometry is not adequate since requires only that the sample be optically polished (specular) and opaque at the measurement wavelengths. These conditions are met for semiconductor and metallic substrates and coating materials of intere ...

Anti-access Area Denial (A2AD) capabilities from peer threats render many aspects of current CONOPS inadequate.For example, our manned aircraft are projected to experience unacceptable attrition against peer IADS forces.The overall system concept of collaborative teams of smaller UAVs and manned-unmanned teams shows great promise for counteracting the A2AD threats and improving the cost-exchange r ...