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The proliferation and capabilities of hobbyist off-the-shelf drone systems poses a direct and immediate threat to U.S. national security. This proposal is a cUAS system to track unwanted UAS in the vicinity using stealthy radars that are AJ. The project will start with an understanding of customer needs and how we can adapt our proposal to best meet the needs of the Air Force.

High-speed and reliable tactical communications have empowered the Air Force with overwhelming information superiority, and control of the battlespace. However, the effectiveness of such systems has been impacted by the increasingly congested and contested spectral environment, compounded by the reliance on half-duplex systems. The latter rely on time- or frequency-division to separate transmit an ...

Small Satellites are a rapidly growing technology and of great interest to both commercial and DOD customers. With the increased access to space and the maturation of small satellites, the mission capabilities have expanded significantly. Along with these expanded capabilities are a need for new approaches to satellite communications with increased capabilities. Blue Cubed is working on developing ...

UbiHere, a Columbus Ohio based small business, has developed, in conjunction with The Ohio State University, a unique highly capable low-cost system to address the known issues with GPS denied tracking of assets, equipment or people in indoor and outdoor operating environments. UbiHere’s commercial system is comprised of an application specific electronics tag, designed by the company, whic ...

The objective of this proposal is to enable high-sensitivity, passive imaging system of natural mm-wave emissions, which can be used as standalone or fused with other imaging modality such as conventional IR imagery in degraded environments. This is achieved through a unique antenna integrated electro-optic (EO) modulator, where received mm-wave signals modulate an optical carrier. The optical car ...

Nanoparticles represent an attractive alternative in coating processes due to their functional versatility, including surface, optical, conductive and catalytic properties. However, current processes of coating textile products with nanoparticles results in rapid loss of the nanoparticles during laundering or use, leading to a significant decrease in product durability and functionality and increa ...

Within this STTR program, Carbonics will partner with USC to commercialize CNTFET based transistor technology that is compatible with wafer-scale monolithic integration process flows whilst offering exceptional performance at mm-Wave frequencies that can outperform incumbent semiconductor high frequency technologies (GaAs, SiGe, RF-CMOS).

In this project, we propose to develop a high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT) based millimeter-wave transistor technology and demonstrate monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs) based on this technology with improved power efficiency, linearity, noise and dynamic range performance over existing GaAs, SiGe and RF-CMOS technologies. The goal of this topic is to leverage Professor St ...

The most critical component of any modern enterprise is effective use of its human resources. The rise of productivity-boosting applications and wearable sensors has provided individual users with data-driven insights into their own effectiveness. Despite these advancements there has not been a corresponding rise in tools for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of teams as a whole. New wear ...

In this DoD STTR project, we propose a novel electronic nose based on a hybrid bio-nanomaterial, in which the living cells are structurally and electrically coupled to 3D nanostructures (nanosprings) through utilization of gold nanoparticles functionalized with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). These types of nanostructures are known as hybrid or mixed-type nanostructures. While semiconductor nano ...