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"Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. will develop a prototype Ground Attack Data Fusion and Optimization System (GADFOS) that will accurately fuse all of the information available from large numbers of sensors using non-Gaussian and multiple hypothesistechniques along with computer resource optimization algorithms and high-performance, inexpensive hardware to allow this computationally intensive dat ...

"The Air Force's Airborne Laser System needs technology to rapidly produce high-quality 170-micron diameter contoured holes in quantities of millions. At a target rate of one hole per minute, a single production workstation running 24/7 would take 46 yearsto produce the number of holes required for a fully operational system consisting of seven aircraft. E. M. Optomechanical, Inc. is proposing a ...

"The program will demonstrate low cost sensors that can accurately provide accurate deformation shape sensing and mapping of wing structures. Large sensors arrays can be fabricated on a single thin film. Such thin films are easily integrated with bothmetal and composite wings structures and have already been successfully demonstrated in composite embedment. These have further advantages that we c ...

"This project proposes to develop and quantify the performance characteristics for processing the holes in the injector heads of the ABL weapon system. The objective is to provide the Air Force and supporting contractors with the technology and equipment tomanufacture holes of virtually arbitrary size, contour and accuracy. Techniques and concepts that will form the basis of machining holes with a ...

"Compact Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antennas with broad bandwidth could be of great use in a variety of space-based applications, including radar, communications, and surveillance. The challenge is to deploy a lightweight UWB antenna that is stowable in a smallvolume, that is automatically deployable, and that will be resistant to the harsh space environment. To overcome these challenges we propose an U ...

"Lens antennas with large apertures could be useful in a variety of High-Power Microwave (HPM) and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) applications. Such lenses are needed in the frequency range of 0.2-2 GHz, and they must have low loss and dispersion. Existing lensesmade of solid dielectric materials, such as polyethylene, are too dense and weigh too much to be practical for large apertures. To build a lightwei ...

"This SBIR project will develop DMIMS, an innovative concept for C4I operations centers featuring our innovative technology for information capture, presentation and instant replay in real-time, near-real-time or from archives. It answers the need for aversatile high performance information processing capability in response to the ever-increasing supply of C4I information that must be processed. ...

"This Phase II SBIR research effort addresses several approaches aimed at minimizing lattice constant and thermal expansion mismatches during heteroepitaxial growth of thick (~ several microns) films on Si substrates. A major focus of the research effortwould be one valuation of sub-50-nm linewidth deeply etched one and two dimensional sub-micrometer periodic structures as compliant buffer layers ...

"Flexible cryogenic and ambient cooling is essential to meet emerging requirements for advanced systems and is enabling technology for increasingly compact / higher density Air Force and Department of Defense infrared sensing payloads. k TechnologyCorporation (kTC) proposes a general technology development that permits the design of a high performance passive flexible cryogenic and ambient heat t ...

"Kestrel Corporation proposes an adaptation of a new technology that providescompact set of laser wavefront diagnosticsthat have the ruggedness needed for a space based applications. An applicationof a unique grating based phase diversity sensor offers a sensitive wavefrontmeasurement that includes tip and tilt information. The proposed Phase I SBIRwill update theoretical models of the sensors an ...