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ABSTRACT:Since the first NAVSTAR GPS satellite was launched, GPS has become one of the most important technologies used by modern military and civilian systems. While the legacy GPS constellation continues to provide support for many military applications, there is growing demand to identify and implement systems to enhance the capability of the constellation by ensuring more robust GPS service es ...

ABSTRACT:Data Fusion Corporation (DFC) proposes to extend their existing suite of Global Positioning System (GPS) structured interference ( both known & determinable) mitigation algorithms and software by developing a new algorithm and related software suitable for mitigating unstructured interference sources, such as from random noise generators. These new algorithms will compute blind estimation ...

ABSTRACT: In this SBIR project, EMAG Technologies Inc. proposes to develop a multi-channel real-time electric and magnetic field measurement system. The proposed system will utilize non-metallic optical probes with a very small footprint. As a result, such measurements will be non-invasive and will not perturb the fields of the device under test (DUT). In addition, the optical probes provide a ve ...

ABSTRACT:Non-mechanical beam steering technology for synthetic aperture LADAR (SAL) is proposed. To enable this low size weight and power (SWaP) subsystem, wide angle non-mechanical beam steering (NMBS) will be implemented using polarization grating technology. The technology will be evaluated for compatibility with a beam control system for SAL. For Phase I Boulder Nonlinear Systems (BNS) an ...

ABSTRACT:Vescent Photonics proposes to develop a laser system complete with drive electronics to support the superluminal IMU development at Northwestern University and Digital Optics Technology by Selim Shahriar. The technology will also be applicable to other research programs such as DARPA IMPACT, DARPA CSCAN, DARPA STOIC, AFRL CSTAR, and other future atomic clock development programs. Vescent ...

ABSTRACT:The SBIR primary objective will be to show the feasibility of advance modeling for simulating and predicting the surface corrosion leading to fatigue damage. This capability will produce early-life stage models which will enhance state of the art corrosion analysis. The SBIR conceptual modeling method must address small damage, in a corroded microstructure for fatigue crack growth. The me ...

ABSTRACT:The damage tolerance approach is used widely in the aerospace industry and has a physics-based foundation in fracture mechanics. The fatigue crack growth rate can be determined by calculating the SIF (stress intensity factor) and knowing empirically derived material parameters. Similitude is achieved for different loads, different crack sizes, and different crack shapes. The down side to ...

ABSTRACT: The semiconductor pumped fiber laser has generated considerable interest for High Energy Lasers (HELs) in a number of BMDS applications including long range sensing, communications and missile defense. The potential efficiency, compact size and low weight, reliability and ruggedness are attractive for these and other directed energy applications. A key requirement is the creation and ...