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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program proposed to develop an enabling electron source suitable for a wide range of application of optical devices, such as field-emission flat-panel displays and head-mounted displays, as well as for enabling compact, tunable infrared lasers, microwave and millimeter amplifiers, etc. Field emitter displays are based on the cold, gated field-emitte ...

The proposal describes a method for developing a dynamic simulation model of the IPPD process. The proposed IPPD model would provide USAF managers with a next-generation system for ensuring the most efficient management of complex product development projects. Adoption of this tool will move project management from reliance on out-dated static anlaysis methods to a realistic, flexible management ...

The Reconfigurable Operator Station Simulator (ROSS) project will provide designers of operator stations for Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with a rapid prototyping system. In addition, the architecture on which ROSS is based provides a platform on which to build tools that increase the ability of operators to control UAVs and to impart a far greater understanding of the situation to them. T ...

The Air Force has identified the need to develop affordable flight control technology to support Air Force Global Engagement objectives. Of particular interest to the Air Force is the development of real-time optimization algorithms for cooperative engagement solutions among Uninhabited Air Vehicles (UAV) in a multiple target environment. DSR proposes developing a real-time, rule based, Cooperat ...

Dynetics, Incorporated proposes to design a hybrid hardware/software simulation of munition based inertial measurement units (IMU) to be integrated with the 6-DOF software at the PRIMES facility, Eglin AFB, FL. This IMU simulation would contain a software component capable of simulating a wide variety of IMUs, plus a hardware component to generate and send the appropriate electrical signals into ...

The contractor proposes a new approach to underwater imaging that directly converts a two-dimmensional acoustic pressure wave into an electronic requirements fo convential piezo-element arrays. The imager relies on the piezo-birefringent properties of a nematic liquid crystal panel that serves as both sensor and display. The capability of nematic liquid crystals has been established and publishe ...

The objective of the proposed program is to address the high service costs of the current U.S. Navy fleet of aircraft by developing a distributed optical fiber sensor system that will help reduce the costs associated with corrosion damage and extend the lifetime of existing aircraft. Annual corrosion of Navy metallic structures has been estimated as high as $1 billion. Additional costs aris ...

F&S and their research partners propose a comprehensive plan to develop a fiber optic-ased chemical detection system for the quantification of metal contaminants in aviation fuel. The system will utilize recently developed long-period grating (LPG) technology which detects index-of-refraction changes resulting from target molecules binding to affinity coatings. Calculations based on experimental ...

Bends in waveguides are a problem for high-voltage Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems. The difficulty arises because only a straight section of standard transmission line can support a pure TEM mode. And a pure TEM mode is necessary to preserve the risetime of the transmitted impulse. When there is a bend in the waveguide, the transmitted signal is a broader impulse than the incident signal. This ca ...