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The amount of data being collected by sensors and cameras has allowed for an explosion in the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to analyze and synthesize useful knowledge from streams of image data. These systems often act as black boxes to observers with little insight into how they function and little knowledge of how trustworthy their predictions and identification. Cu ...

Electronic Warfare (EW) is a critical component in conflicts around the globe. High Power Microwave applications need greater power and efficiency and wider bandwidth. Solid state technology is very capable and increased power by combining many devices improves overall performance. Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) proposes to develop a wideband solid state power amplifier combining topology wh ...

Radio frequency (RF) systems are a key enabler of multi-domain mesh networked capabilities in the battlefield of the 21st century. As attritable and expendable unmanned platforms become more common, cost is becoming a larger constraining factor in system specifications. Current high-performance RF systems such as phased arrays meet mission requirements but are costly and consume significant power. ...

The Navy seeks to develop compact and energy efficient technologies to reduce the latent loads of outside air entering the ship during the summer while providing heat during the winter. This is similar to needs in building technology that are often addressed by using rotary desiccant wheels for dehumidification and by enthalpy wheels for preheating fresh makeup air in the winter. Removing water va ...

The Navy requires fast, frequency-agile, stimuli-responsive and tunable micromirror surfaces to keep focal plane array (FPA) MWIR irradiance levels below the damage threshold without losing track of the MWIR target. PSI proposes a Cooperative Optically Responsive MWIR Filter (CORE-MF) that simultaneously achieves requirements for fast autonomous actuation, rapid recovery time, and long-term endura ...

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI), in cooperation with the University of Rhode Island (URI), will develop a Velocimetric Flash LiDAR (VFL) for Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (UAV).  The VFL will combine (and extend) two capabilities previously developed and demonstrated at PSI: an underwater flash lidar (UWFL) and an expendable seawater optical attenuation meter (K-meter).  K-meter mode is a high spee ...

Physical Sciences Inc. is proposing the development of a built-for-purpose small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) for Probing Elevated, Confined, and Tight-space Areas Complimented with Long Endurance (SPECTACLE). This technology is intended to initially serve Naval ship-building and sustainment activities, and expanded to commercial shipyard activities. The Navy is in need of an aerial inspection pl ...

Interferometric fiber-optic gyroscopes (IFOGs) are a key component within an inertial navigation system, however, current IFOG systems are limited by the unnecessarily large size, weight, and power (SWaP) of the integrated optical chip. To overcome the current limitations, Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) will develop Integrated Lithium Niobate chips for Gyroscope Support (I-LiNGS) to enable highly c ...

We propose development of Photonic-Integrated Scalable-Trimming for Optical Networks (PISTON), a platform for the adjustment of optical phase-delays in optical-phased arrays (OPAs) and other photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The PISTON platform uses patterned GeSe3 films on SiN optical waveguides for low-loss, non-volatile phase delay adjustment that is compatible with the 700–900 nm waveleng ...

To reduce the size, weight, and complexity of the optical systems that support atom interferometry based sensors, Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) will develop the Simplified Atom Interferometer Laser System (SAILS) that will be capable of generating two frequency-referenced and phase-coherent optical wavelengths.  It will contain high-power, narrow-linewidth lasers in hermetic packaging all referen ...