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ABSTRACT: ORS requires rapid delivery of low-cost payloads that meet the needs of unplanned and unanticipated spacecraft missions. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will provide ORS, the Air Force, and other customers with a low-cost, rapidly-fabricated deployable antenna for use in a wide range of potential RF missions. The PSI team will use a combination of commercially available manufacturing techn ...

ABSTRACT: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project seeks to further develop an AR coating on high efficiency PV device surface that can enable a reflection loss < 3% over the wavelength range from 300 nm to 1800 nm. The proposed effort will optimize the coating design and the coating process of the broadband AR coating so that it can be integrated into PV cell products. Standard t ...

Triton Systems, Inc. (Triton), is developing an Autonomous Undersea Vehicle that provides covert and persistent undersea surveillance in littoral waters. It utilizes less energy than other similar vehicles (low Joule/km and net positive Joules/year), and can operate in shallow coastal environment where others cannot. The system is called the Persistent, Autonomous, Repositionable, Surveillance (PA ...

This program will accelerate transitioning of high-throughput versions of JENTEKs MWM Array eddy-current sensors and GridStation impedance instruments to the U.S. Navy. The proposed systems will have between 350 and 600 fully parallel impedance channels. With greater data acquisition speed from each channel and with substantial increase in the number of fully parallel channels, larger surface area ...

During carrier-based aircraft mission planning, threat data is currently subject to repeated, manual transcription as it is repeatedly hand-typed into Joint Mission Planning Software (JMPS), Microsoft Excel, and other tools. This creates several mission risks, including: Data transcription into some software takes an enormous amount of time, in some cases well over an hour. As a consequence, stri ...

The Navy has established a need to update the battery capability of the present Active Source sonobuoy used in Anti Submarine Warfare(ASW) systems. The technology which is currently deployed achieves up to 14, 10 second pulses providing 2400 watts of power at 75 volts. The present battery, a primary lithium/SO2 system, suffers from safety concerns and limited power capability relating to excessive ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to design and develop a wideband, electronically steered multi-beam transmit array for Navy surface ship EW systems. We will build on our Phase I efforts to demonstrate a 20:1 bandwidth array with wide instantaneous bandwidth and high efficiency at targeted frequencies. In Phase II, the wideband array concept will be refined through modeling and hardware. An ...

The Navy objective in this SBIR program is to develop a size, weight and power-optimized integrated GPS and Iridium anti-jam solution for Navy UAS platforms. In the Phase I feasibility study, Mayflower developed and analyzed the system architecture of a highly integrated Iridium/GPS Anti-Jam Antenna System (iGAASTM) solution, designed to mitigate jamming in the GPS and Iridium bands, that can be p ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop printed, high-performance ultracapacitors to meet the Army"s need for lightweight energy storage. SI2 will leverage its demonstrated expertise in ink jet printing and our partner"s expertise with carbon nanoparticle synthesis to develop low-cost, flexible, printed ultracapacitors. SI2 has considerable experience in the roll-to-roll deposition of ...

We propose a rapid mapping and 3-D visualization system especially suited for inside buildings, tunnels, urban canyons, and other environments where GPS may be poor or not available. The system--which was fully demonstrated in our Phase I effort-- includes mobile Sensor Nodes that wirelessly supply compressed 3D range data and color imagery to a central Fusion Node. The Fusion Node runs 3D recon ...