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The primary objective of this STTR is to develop thick, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) multi-layer heterostructures for high-power handling microwave devices and with reduced nonlinearities. Building on the resources of Neocera’s materials research on HTS heterostructures and MIT Lincoln Laboratories vast knowledge on nonlinear behavior of HTS films at microwave frequencies, this STTR P ...

Airborne radar systems face a number of difficulties in detection and estimation of targets in the presence of clutter and other forms of interference. The work proposed for this STTR will focus on advancement and application of robust, innovative methods that improve Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) for airborne radar. As the name implies STAP allows a system to adaptively respond to a chang ...

The problem of ‘voltage collapse’ is a serious issue in isolated and complex systems like shipboard power systems, especially in military craft where the ability to sustain substantial damage to the power system without complete failure is vital. Intelligent reconfiguration of the power system including energy storage, shifting loads, or shedding loads that are non-critical to combat operatio ...

The proposed work will provide highly reliable electrical machinery systems by developing fault diagnostics, prognostics, and self-healing control capability. In most power systems, individual components have their own fault protection controls built in. The fault protection is not controlled by the larger system power management controls. These component level controls are designed to protect ...

ORBITEC proposes a parallel computational and experimental effort to understand the phenomena underlying hypergolic ignition of gelled propellants. Gelled hypergolic propellants offer many benefits to modern propulsion systems. They offer good insensitive munitions characteristics and versatile performance. However, gelled propellants typically exhibit longer ignition delays than liquid propell ...

Recent terrorist activities and law-enforcement situations involving hostage situations underscore the need for effective through-the-wall surveillance (TWS). Current building interior imaging systems are based on short-pulse waveforms, which are easily recognizable by the intelligent adversary who may employ countermeasures to confound detection. We propose a coherent continuous-wave ultrawideban ...

Warfighters increasingly rely on radio communication equipment to ensure safety, mission effectiveness, and situational awareness. Current military communication gear involves headphones and acoustic microphones. Unfortunately, headphones cover the ears and deteriorate detection and localization of ambient sounds that may be important for tactical situations. They also prevent ear plug usage and n ...

The proposed effort is to evaluate the feasibility of a W-band sheet-beam vacuum electronic device that can provide up to 1 kW of peak RF power at a minimum efficiency of 20%. Key elements of this effort are on the generation and transport of the sheet beam and its interaction with the RF circuit. The potential of employing a depressed collector to improve overall efficiency will also be investiga ...

Next Century Corporation and the University of Washington’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences propose development of the Micro-Meteorological Modeling (M3) system with the goal of rapidly performing high-resolution atmospheric dispersion modeling, ideally down to the microscale level, with a high degree of accuracy and confidence. Our M3 graphical user interface will provide the user with a hi ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), proposes a reliable integrated COTS-based reader/writer that can deliver RF waveforms to a cross-correlation based RF receiver at high speeds of 40 Gbps. We have already identified key COTS hardware that offers following advantages (1) input/ Output blocks of the FPGA can handle various input/ output standards like LVDS, LVCMOS, PCI-X, GTL and GTLP. Hence extern ...