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Physical Sciences Inc. and Prof. Seth Bank at the University of Texas Austin will develop thin-absorber avalanche photodiodes based on digital alloys of AlInAsSb for high-performance photodetection between 2.0 – 2.5 μm. The AlInAsSb quaternary alloy system allows for compositional grading throughout the device structure, enabling novel photodiode architectures inaccessible with other III-V allo ...

To achieve enhanced tactical performance, speed, reach, and lethality, next-generation hypersonic vehicles must be designed for increased dynamics, control, and maneuverability. Morphing and adaptive structures, and active control surfaces will be critical in achieving these goals. However, the time-varying flow-field brought about by changes in vehicle orientation and configuration make such desi ...

Triton Systems, Inc., in partnership with the University of Alabama and with the support of Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, will design, build, and test the Triton Composite Optical Strain Mapping Integrated Control (COSMIC) System, a combination of (i) terahertz (THz) metamaterial reflectors applied to composite panels that converts linearly polarized light to circularly polarized based on t ...

Triton Systems, Inc. along with our academic partner have reviewed the commercial and academic literature on chalcogenide glasses that have high transparency in the near infrared.  Based on this, as a team we have identified potential ChG compositional ranges that could meet the Navy's stringent requirements.  We will use prediction analysis based on prior work from our partner to predict likely ...

Digital sensor data received by infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPA) faces a readout bottleneck before exiting the cooled environment to room temperature processing. This is the very same bottleneck faced in other applications with harsh environments, such as quantum and classical supercomputing. Electrical links are lossy and bandwidth limited, and coaxial cables have a high thermal conductivity a ...

Standard in vitro lab tests can help elucidate a patient’s health and diagnose several possible medical conditions to be monitored. Cost, patient and lab time, and patient discomfort, mean that these tests are done infrequently, and are limited to suspected morbidities. The invasive nature of most tests (requiring blood draws, urine samples, etc.) limits what is measured, and how often. In the ...

The proposed program will span the design, production, purification, and testing of a novel protein based food ingredient with >80% Essential Amino Acid content. A generally recognized as safe (GRAS) production organism will be used to enhance the safety of production and accelerate the timeline to GRAS approval of the protein feed. The resulting material will be incorporated into combat rations t ...

Multi-Dimensional Event Sourcing & Correlation - Publicly Available Information (PAI) (MDESC-P) will support collection jointly across disparate PAI sources with coordinated cueing of more constrained intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) sources. The primary objective for MDESC-P is to deliver a scalable and automated PAI collection management solution using a ...

Challenge: Long lead times, vendors going out of business, and unreliable quality control for advanced materials are creating an unstable supply chain for production of large format components, particularly those made of specialty materials. Large area additive manufacturing has been identified as the ideal way to onshore manufacturing and create a flexible, sustainable supply chain for critical h ...

We will develop broadband adaptive pulse shaping technology that is optimized specifically for IR countermeasure applications. The effort will enable a new class of precisely controlled nonlinear interactions including strong light–matter interactions developed to disrupt optical control systems applicable to both the MWIR and LWIR spectral ranges. The project will culminate in a prototype desig ...