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The Phase II research will develop and demonstrate non-destructive techniques/tools for detecting internal voids and defects in additive manufactured (AM) components that can cause premature in-service failures and reduced fatigue life of specific components of interest to MDA. Candidate components under consideration include liquid-cooled rocket nose tips and nozzles, reinforcement structures, an ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) serves the nation’s security and defense-related needs by developing and testing hypersonic weapons system models in their ability to destroy targets, and also design structures to withstand hypervelocity impacts (HVIs). The MDA is keenly interested in innovative diagnostics for HVIs to improve its capability to model and assess hypersonic missile defense lethali ...

The goal of the proposed Air Force Direct to Phase II program is to develop and install several versions of high-speed and ultrahigh-speed focusing digital schlieren systems that can demonstrate the technology to replace or augment the existing schlieren

The goal of the proposed Air Force Phase II program is to develop and design an ultrahigh-speed digital holography system operating at measurement rate of 100 million frames per second for measurements in the AEDC G Range. An optimal digital holography sy

C53-24a-271332For long-term CO2 sequestration monitoring, it is important to detect elevated levels of metal contaminants such as Ca, K, Sr, etc., is soil and water as it can provide an early detection of CO2 leakage from geologic carbon storage. Technologies are also needed for direct and in situ measurements of greenhouse gases, CO2 and CH4 for environmental monitoring. For in situ and real-time ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the significant advancement of U.S. wireless technology and infrastructure. The proposed research applies an innovative high-frequency radio-frequency design process to address emerging market needs that current products and design processes are unable to meet. The key feature of the design process proposed is ...

This proposal will significantly advance Power Added Efficiency (PAE) beyond present-day state-of-the-art SSPAs operating at S-Band in the over 1kW peak output power regime, achieving a TRL 3-4 S-band/ 3.2 GHz solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) module. The greatly enhanced PAE will result in an SSPA with a compact form factor suitable for CubeSat/SmallSat or other NASA remote sensing platforms. Th ...

This proposal will significantly advance Power Added Efficiency (PAE) beyond present-day state-of-the-art SSPAs operating at S-Band in the over 1kW peak output power regime, achieving a TRL gt;=4 S-band/ 3.2 GHz solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) module. The greatly enhanced PAE will result in an SSPA with a compact form factor suitable for CubeSat/SmallSat or other NASA remote sensing platforms. ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will contribute to the advancement of the US’s competitiveness in Semiconductor based products, while also enhancing the national defense and minimizing the electricity requirements of next-generation wireless communications infrastructure equipment. This project will develop state-of-the-art Radio-Frequency In ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research project will be to enable new robotics systems with actuator hardware that is substantially lighter and less expensive than the current state-of-the-art. The high cost and limited performance of actuators are the greatest problems for engineers developing products for mobile applications, such as package delivery, s ...