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Fuel applications for scramjet powered flight greater than Mach 8 require the injection, mixing and combustion process to complete in a very short period of time. The one limiting factor restricting the speed at which a scramjet can operate relates directly to the time it takes for the fuel and air to mix and burn. Using hydrogen as the fuel source brings this time to a minimum. Due to the low ...

Cortix Systems Inc. will design and implement a solution which provides significant advances to the field of integration and retrieval of information out of a large amount of data sources.

The integrity of military and civil infrastructure is critical to the safety and continued operations of the armed forces, commercial enterprises, and the everyday lifestyle of the American public. In order to reduce the need for costly scheduled maintenance while also preventing the potentially catastrophic failure of such structures, a multi-modal distributed sensor network must be developed to ...

MATSYS proposes to develop novel fluidized degassing system for high-strength, nanostructured, lightweight composite powders. This effort will build on our extensive experience in fluidized powder flow to develop a new generation of inexpensive, scalable and highly-efficient fluidized powder systems to speed-up the removal of the PCA, such as stearic acid, used in the production of lightweight na ...

The overall objective of this SBIR program is to develop novel, lightweight, hybrid nanocomposites that combine high levels of anti-icing functionality and erosion resistance to provide exceptional passive anti-icing protection to support the U.S. Army Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). NanoSonic will build on its demonstrated Phase I HybridSil erosion protective, anti-icing nanocompos ...

With the growing concerns surrounding security and terrorism around the world, biometrics has become one of the premier solutions to combat these problems. Traditionally, biometrics has been an academic problem that has been studied from the perspective of optimal environments (good lighting, cooperative subjects, single-frontal-2D / 3D photographs, etc.) and unlimited time and processing power. T ...

In this Phase II effort, MMI will develop and scale up their novel anti-ice coating formulation for aircraft structures based on the success shown in the Phase I effort. MMI will demonstrate the use of a polymer composite coating system modified with nano-fillers that would prevent ice accumulation and accretion on various substrates e.g. aluminum, steel, titanium, glass, wood, concrete and carbon ...

During Phases I and II, Photon-X successfully demonstrated the feasibility of applying its patented Spatial Phase Imaging technology to the problem of non-contact 3D imaging during a rollover test and delivered a viable prototype system. During Phase IIB, Photon-X will continue to refine the system in preparation for commercialization. Photon-X will use this opportunity to add an additional camer ...

The intelligence gathering community needs automated data mining and discovery of causal relationships in unstructured textual documents. Harmonia proposes to fill this need via our Raconteur system. Raconteur can benefit an analyst by guiding them in automated discovery of unknown document linkages. Examples include grouping a set of terrorist attacks with similar methodologies and locations, dis ...

We propose a system to determine object attitude from special video imagery taken from two locations, with an image analysis system based on the Fourier Transform, which provides the spatial power spectrum of the image. The Fourier transform of an image represents the information in terms of angles and spatial frequencies. In this case we are interested only in the angles. The transform of a mis ...