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"During the past 5 years, Mentis Sciences has developed advanced material processes to produce high performance composite radomes for missile interceptor applications. These unique and proprietary processes have enabled us to produce radome prototypes thathave inherently low dielectric constants and loss tangents for Ka band applications through 1500¿F, exceed the structural requirements and hav ...

OPTICAL COMPUTERS ARE RECOGNIZED AS POTENTIALLY USEFUL ELEMENTS IN THEQUEST TO MEET THE INTENSE BATTLE MANAGEMENT COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTSOF STRATEGIC DEFENSE. CURRENTLY, OPTICAL COMPUTERS ARE GREATLY LIMITED IN PERFORMANCE BECAUSE NO EXISTING NONLINEAR LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE SIMULTANEOUSLY OFFERS FAST OPTICAL SWITCHING WITH THRESHOLD HIGH GAMMA, HIGH SPATIAL BANDWIDTH, LOW POWER DISSIPATION, O ...

"The rise of next generation electronics depends on advances in microelectronic packaging materials. Power, frequency, and functionality are increasing while cost, size, and margin for error are declining. Military and commercial electronics are reachingperformance limitations since conventional CTE controlled heat sink materials are unable to keep pace with emerging cooling requirements. Graphi ...

"Hypervelocity missiles are currently dependent on the deflection of aerodynamic surfaces for flight control. These deflections and surfaces contribute significantly to the drag of the missile. By eliminating these surfaces it is estimated that anincrease of up to 30 % in speed of kinetic energy penetrators can be achieved.Mid¿ proposes to investigate the use of precisely controlled, fast actin ...

A new technology for the manufacture of 10Gb/s electrical/electronic connectors. The new manufacturing process has the potential of producing a low cost, large bandwidth,high dentsity of contacts in a robust and thermally tolerant package. The connector isMetallic and is extruded in a coniguous housing having multiple cavities for a plurality of contacts. Thus the rectangular connector is survivab ...

"The proposed Phase I SBIR will develop and demonstrate an innovative approach to making 1.3-meter mirrors having an areal density

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Visidyne proposes to demonstrate that photonics: diode lasers, optical delay lines and detector/receivers can be used to design RF oscillators, e.g., at X-band, with less phase noise in a smaller footprint and at lower power consumption than existing,all electronic designs. Low phase noise oscillators are an important element in advanced missile receivers to improve on target, Doppler discrimi ...

"The development of a multi-functional system for release or jettisoning of structures on launch vehicles and spacecraft is proposed. The system acts as both a release mechanism and as a structural component of an assembly prior to release. The primaryinnovation is the use of a high-strength adhesive, recently developed at EIC Laboratories, that is rapidly disbonded from a metallic surface by the ...

"Metallic sheathed magnetostrictive wires (MSMW) will be developed for use in fiber reinforced composite structures. These magnetostrictive wires will be based on rare earth intermetallics such as the "giant" magnetostrictive material TERFENOL-D. Thesmart material characteristics of the magnetostrictive wires can be exploited for sensing, actuation, and, in the simplest case, enhanced passive vi ...