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The primary objective of CU AerospaceOs Phase II engineering work will be to develop all-gas-phase closed-cycle electrically assisted chemical laser COIL (ElectriCOIL) technology. CU Aerospace (CUA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) believe that this challenge can be surmounted with changes to gain generator research including 1) radically new, electrically driven O2(1D) ge ...

The objective of this Phase II proposal is to build, test, and deliver a programmable fiber-optic delay line capable of delaying an instantaneous bandwidth from 4 to 12 GHz from 0 to > 20 msecs, programmable in 10 nsec steps. The proposed delay line willimplement DWDM fiber-optic technology to minimize optical fiber while achieving an infinite capture time. A recent study involving an experiment ...

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This Phase II SBIR will result in the design, fabrication and demonstration of advanced components for a semi-active RF sensor for the EKV of the Ground based Midcourse Defense System (GMDS). The baseline concept is derived from the results of the Phase ISBIR titled Concept Development and Assessment of a Multi-Mode Seeker for the NMD EKV. That effort identified the key technologies required to pr ...

Using Popkin? System Architect 2000 (SA2000), our primary C4ISR compliantmodeling tool used in the design and implementation of enterprise-wideinformation systems, we will demonstrate the feasibility of determininghindrances to deployment. DESE enhancements to SA2000 allow us to completethe C4ISR framework while providing additional diagrams and reports to helpclients understand their enterprise m ...

For any real world pattern classification system (detection, identification, and tracking), there is an inherent problem of optimizing the algorithm's performance for a wide range of scenarios. This is due to a large dynamic range of variables (solarloading, solar reflectance, atmospherics, background, target condition, countermeasures) which will impact the target's feature set. The variabilit ...

East West Enterprises Inc. (EWE) proposes to develop physics based discrimination algorithms to improve GMD's ability to identify target objects in cluttered environments. Robust discrimination ability can be facilitated with a high-speed, high fidelity,signature code that can rapidly simulate all of the assumed threat objects, as seen from multiple sensor locations. This high-speed code would rap ...

Data analysis and feature selection for discrimination are, for the most part, very manual and time consuming tasks which are non-optimized. While an experienced algorithm developer will have reasonably good success in the selection of robust features, itis impossible to manually analyze the many sets of actual test and simulated data and select the truly optimal set of features for discriminatio ...

The fabrication of large format, highly sensitive focal plane arrays (FPAs) sensing at very long wavelengths in the infrared region (VLWIR), i.e. beyond 15um, is highly desirable for the Air Force's space-based applications. Currently, only limited typesof arrays such as 256 X 256 Si:As are available in this spectral region. However, these extrinsic detectors suffer from several fundamental limita ...

We propose here a new generation of two color superlattice-based VLWIR detectors. The objective will be achieved by combining the advantages of the molecular beam epitaxy(MBE) crystal growth technique, and band gap engineering of a superlattice structurewith reduced tunneling currents and accurate control of cut-off wavelengths. The proposed technology eliminates non-uniformity in the band gap of ...