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Additive manufacturing (AM) technology offers the capability to use multiple glass materials and to print complex freeform shape designs and gradient index (GRIN) optics.  Although AM is widely used to print commercial 3-dimension metal and plastic/polymer parts, there are no viable commercial solutions for AM of inorganic transparent glasses for high-quality optical components. The proposed Phas ...

Excellerix proposes to build, test, and demonstrate a forensic memory solution, called EXFORM, exceeding the required threshold performance in delay and data throughput. By the end of Phase I Base, EXFORM was built and comprehensively tested with less than 1e-12 bit-error rate and data rates up to 200 Gbps. In Phase II we will build, demonstrate and deliver EXFORM as a rugged unit ready for Naval ...

Rechargeable Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are widely used for a wide variety of commercial and naval electronics and electrical applications. The weight of the naval power battery system can be a significant portion of the overall weight of the portable electrical device on board a ground or aerial vehicle. Furthermore, the energy capacity of existing Li-ion batteries is not adequate to support ...

Hemp-based clothing are excellent for outdoor active wear, due to high strength, UV-protective qualities, mold resistance, and excellent moisture absorption and desorption. While academic research on hemp-based textiles in the US is increasing, it has naturally also become an area of interest to competing countries. Specifically, China is outperforming the US in hemp fiber technological advancemen ...

During the successful Phase I program, Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) demonstrated, through modeling, the potential to significantly increase transmission through a hypersonic plasma layer by utilizing a combination of novel approaches.  Current drones use large 24 to 30 inch high gain Ku band antennas, which cannot be used on hypersonic vehicles.  Instead, our proposed basel ...

Service Robotics & Technologies (SRT Labs) was competitively selected for the Department of Navy’s SBIR ADAPT Phase II Program for Facility Health Monitoring and Prioritization, where SRT Labs worked with the objective of determining the parameters of a successful smart facility deployment in improving workflow, reducing machine and shop downtime, and establishing the needed criteria to uptake a ...

The aerospace industry has been transitioning to the use of pi joints as an assembly technique for primary structure to reduce both the weight and costs of these assemblies by eliminating the cost and weight of using fasteners.  The pi-joint is a woven preform co-bonded between a skin and a stringer. While these joints are inherently weight-effective for highly loaded structural applications, the ...

The development of monolithic dual-band quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) delivering CW optical power exceeding 3W simultaneously at ~4.6µm and ~4.0µm from a single emitter in a nearly Gaussian output beam (M2 < 1.5) with wallplug efficiency exceeding 15% is proposed. The entire QCL package will have a volume size of less than 1 cm3 and will weigh less than 100g. These devices will find immediate ap ...

In the Phase I Base effort of this program Transient Plasma Systems, Inc. (TPS) investigated the development of a solid-state electrical closing switch that is capable of producing high power electrical impulses with rising edges that are faster than 200 ps.  TPS subcontracted with GE Research to perform MIXED-MODE technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations to investigate the capability ...

Commercial industry has begun to integrate flexible robotic material handling solutions to improve the efficiency and reliability of operations. This has been particularly true for manufacturing facilities and warehouses, which have begun to integrate a range of autonomous vehicles for retrieving and moving supplies as well as robotic manipulators for retrieving components. However, military susta ...