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ROM Development Corporation (ROM) is proposing a light, corrosion-proof, seaworthy, all-composite autonomously controlled catamaran for the next generation Small High-Speed Amphibious Role-Variant Craft (SHARC). This amphibious vessel an ideal design for meeting the speed, payload, and sea state requirements for Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO) and Littoral Operations in a Contested ...

In this project, Arktonics proposes to develop monolithically integrated high-performance (Si)GeSn lasers by using the novel aspect ratio trapping (ART) growth technology. The proposed transformative laser architecture is expected to fundamentally address the long-standing challenges of the missing high-performance light emitter to complete the whole suite of Si-photonics to enable many new applic ...

Ozark IC has demonstrated year-long operation in LEO of a UV sensing solid-state SiC bipolar junction phototransistor that exceeds all the solicited specifications.  The phototransistor is both monolithic and isolated such that the SiC NPN that can be patterned into individually addressable pixels with micron scaled lithography. The ultrahigh current gain of the transistor produces an external qu ...

Propel proposes to conduct research in order to determine the performance level of a seamless cold weather mesh undershirt and drawers as compared to the existing undershirt and drawers.  Propel shall develop initial concepts and evaluate their technical feasibility.  Comparison to conventionally sewn seams using internationally recognized standards and test methods, as well as novel test method ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is a tool to help mitigate the wildfire crisis in the western United States. Prescribed burns are one of the most effective ways to prevent the uncontrolled, large-scale wildfires that devastate entire ecosystems, communities, and economies, but the environmental assessment required for burns may delay ...

The conventional nitric acid manufacturing method uses natural gas as a feedstock for hydrogen and an energy intensive thermal process that emits a large amount of carbon dioxide. A new low-temperature plasma system, which can be driven electrically by a renewable or nuclear energy source, could reduce the energy consumed by the synthesis of nitric acid while eliminating the emission of greenhouse ...

Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...

Increasingly heightened concerns about environmental contaminants necessitates a customizable, accurate, precise, real-time, easily deployable, and flexible yet comprehensive monitoring solution. Critical applications include; Corrosion monitoring;  Situa

Most of the COTS connectors are constructed from molded plastic (LC and MTP/MPO) and will not survive static drop, mechanical shock, random/constant vibration, constant acceleration and/or thermal shock/cycling. In the space environments (alternate applic

Textile scrims can be engineered to function as robust electromechanical sensors capable of measuring strains present in composite bondlines.  During the proposed effort, the project team seeks to optimize and characterize the performance of these strain