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The DoD has recently launched initiatives to innovate the department by empowering fighters with the tools and resources to submit solutions or problems. The programs have collected mass amounts of ideas and solutions through the fighters Powered by Innov

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions is proposing an approach to enable use of State of the Art (SOTA) Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) devices in naturally occurring or manmade radiation environments. Our approach marries a companion radiation sensing, circumvention, and recovery chipset to a COTS device. This solution detects and circumvents radiation without modifying or redesigning the COTS part. Th ...

OSEMI and UCSB, with support from Lockheed-Martin’s Santa Barbara Focalplane, propose to advance Type-2 Strained-Layer Superlattice (T2SLS) long wave infrared (LWIR) materials and detector technology. We specifically propose to investigate adding increased amounts of lead (Sb) in indium arsenide tin (InAsSb) - based SLS structures to increase LWIR absorption and detector quantum efficiency. We s ...

Recent studies seem to suggest that distributed and semi-central hydrogen production systems have potential in the near to mid-term for small/medium scale market penetration. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has been considered the ultimate method to produce hydrogen as well as other fuels, directly from solar radiation. The process is simple and has potential for high conversion efficie ...

Co-location of energy storage with fossil fuel power plants helps to improve plant flexibility, promote efficient plant operations, and increase plant lifetime. Compared to battery storage, Hydrogen Energy Storage (HES) systems offer the advantages of potential lower cost, long cycle life and no self-discharge leading to long-term, seasonal storage of off-peak electricity. Two HES systems will be ...

The overall objective of this program is to develop an open platform of strategic radiation hardened Intellectual Property (IP) on the commercially available 45nm silicon on insulator (SOI) foundry technology from Global Foundries to enable development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), system on a chips (SoCs), and other custom integrated circuits. Trusted Semiconductor Solution ...

Future DoD and Navy missions require advances in current high voltage power electronics technology. For this, Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a suitable materials candidate given the numerous fundamental figures of merit that make it superior to SiC and Si, respectively, the current state-of-the-art and standard material systems for power electronic devices. With the Baliga figure of merit, respectively, ...

Numerous government agencies and commercial organizations are dependent on mission critical ecosystems (i.e. federated systems of systems [SoS]). Integration, testing, and certification (IT&C) of these ecosystems are required before fielding production ready systems. These activities are time consuming and costly, ultimately inhibiting the ability to rapidly update these systems. Additionally, sy ...

Integer Technologies LLC proposes to develop a set of operational digital twins that run in parallel both onboard and offboard an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) called the Remote Operational Monitoring Unit Leveraging UUV Simulation, or “ROMULUS.” ROMULUS is designed to provide the UUV Operator with continuous high-fidelity situational awareness of what their UUVs are doing, even during tim ...

NextGen RF Design will research the feasibility of what we call a Highly Adaptive Radio (HAR) to achieve low probability of detection (PDD) and intercept (LPI) optimized for low SWaP and is capable of SATCOM and terrestrial communications. Our study will revolve around the concept of autonomously switching a variety of over-the-air protocols to adapt to the conditions of a contested environment. W ...