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OUR PROPOSAL EFFORT DEFINES AN APPROACH TO DEVELOPING A FAMILY OF LOW-COST EXPENDABLE ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTIC SENSORS. DURING PHASE I WE PROPOSE TO IDENTIFY THE HARDWARE COMPONENTS AND ON-BOARD PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ADVANCED ACOUSTIC SENSOR PACKAGE. OUR GOAL IS TO DEFINE A PACKAGE THAT MAY BE READILY DEPLOYED TO A REMOTE SITE, EITHER BY AIRBORNE MEANS OR BY A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL TRAVELLING ON ...

Project will demonstrate the feasibility of combining signatures from multiple sensor domains to the problem of detecting, localizing and characterizing an underground facility. The Phase I effort will focus on establishing, integrating, and validating models for the source and propagation phenomenologies associated with electromagnetic, seismic, and acoustic signatures of mechanical and electro ...

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Etalon has recently demonstrated a fundamentally new display technology based on Microelectromechanical (MEM) Strucutres. Exploiting the phenomena of interference, these interferometric modulators (IMods) are simple membrane structures whose colors change when deformed electrostatically. IMods have already demonstrated drive voltages of 25 volts, response times of 1 microsecond, and prominent hy ...

The proposed SBIR program will accelerate the commercialization of multiplexed optical fiber networks and their use in both DoD and commercial systems. F&S (Fiber & Sensor Technologies, Inc.) proposes to implement all-optical low-loss switches for signal multiplexing in large networks. This new approach to multiplexing is based on the development of optically-activated in-line switches to automa ...

The proposed SBIR program would accelerate the commercialization of low-cost miniaturized bioanalysis instrumentation and its use in both DoD and commercial systems. F&S (Fiber and Sensor Technologies, Inc.) proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating mechanically-active polymer microcomposites with evanescent field grating-based optical sensor elements to store, pump and analyze mole ...

This DARPA SBIR Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of revolutionary ionic self-assembly methods of creating electric field-tunable thin-film electronic materials and devices. Exciting recent work at F&S and Virginia Tech has shown that the ionic nature of the self-assembly process inherently results in the spontaneous regular geometric ordering of noncentrosymmetric dipole molecules. ...

The development of a micro unmanned vehicle requires an extremely small, lightweight navigation system. The combination of a miniature GPS receiver with micro-machined accelerometer/gyros (MGIMU) provides the ideal solution. When integrated with its own processor performing navigation, Kalman filtering and flight control/guidance, a powerful precision aided navigation system is produced. The se ...

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A BRUSHLESS ALTERNATOR USING VERY HIGH ENERGY PRODUCT PERMANENT MAGNETS WILL BE COMBINED WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLID-STATE VOLTAGE CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY TO DEMONSTRATE PRECISE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION FOR ELECTRONICS ONBOARD MINIATURE AIRCRAFT. PHASE I WILL INCLUDE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION, FABRICATION, AND TESTING OF A PROTOTYPE ALTERNATOR, CONCLUDING WITH A DEMONSTRATION OF THE PROTOTYPE DRIVEN BY ...