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"When a potentially hostile missile is launched, decision-makers manning the National Missile Defense (NMD) Battle Management/Command, Control, and Communications Center (BM/C3) at Cheyenne Mountain, CO need to make timely decisions that may impact millionsof American lives. National Intelligent Missile Response & Optimization of Defenses (NIMROD) will take advantage of 21st century technology to ...

"When a potentially hostile missile is launched, theater commanders need to make timely decisions that may impact American and allied troops in the theater of operations. Theater Intelligent Missile Response & Optimization of Defenses (TIMROD) will takeadvantage of 21st century technology to provide Theater Missile Defense commanders a current, accurate, and complete picture of the battlespace in ...

A new technology for the manufacture of 10Gb/s electrical/electronic connectors. The new manufacturing process has the potential of producing a low cost, large bandwidth,high dentsity of contacts in a robust and thermally tolerant package. The connector isMetallic and is extruded in a coniguous housing having multiple cavities for a plurality of contacts. Thus the rectangular connector is survivab ...

Silicon based charged couple devices (CCD) have been the workhorse of solid state imaging technology for use in the visible spectrum. Infrared systems are confined to exotic compound semiconductors that add an order of magnitude onto the cost. Solid stateultraviolet systems are still in their infancy. As the need for higher performance and need for hyperspectral response is ever increasing, these ...

"Silicon based charged couple devices (CCD) have been the workhorse of solid state imaging technology for use in the visible spectrum. As the need for higher resolution is ever increasing, silicon based systems are being pushed to their limit. Either largersystems, constructed on a single wafer or higher pixel density per square centimeter are called for. In either case, all pixels in a frame must ...

"This SBIR Phase I project will develop a compiler for a portablevector assembly language. This tool will allow portable low-levelprograms to be written for signal-processing applications, and willproduce efficient code for modern general-purpose processors (GPP),taking full advantage of their vector (SIMD) instruction sets such asSSE on the Intel Pentium and Altivec on the Motorola PowerPC. Thi ...

"Complex analysis of intelligence imagery is crucial to the missions of intelligence organizations, yet remains constrained by labor-intensive, time-consuming visual search of large volumes of imagery. Many algorithms have been developed to automaticallyidentify regions of interest in large, complex sets of imagery, yet the utility of such algorithms is limited by the fact that human analysts dete ...

Visidyne proposes to demonstrate that photonics: diode lasers, optical delay lines and detector/receivers can be used to design RF oscillators, e.g., at X-band, with less phase noise in a smaller footprint and at lower power consumption than existing,all electronic designs. Low phase noise oscillators are an important element in advanced missile receivers to improve on target, Doppler discrimi ...

Visidyne proposes to demonstrate that through an innovative mix of electro-optical and photonic technologies, an imaging, scannerless LADAR (or 3-D imager) can be designed and built that is a viable sensor for the terminal phase of guided kinetic energyweapons. Key elements in the mix are; a small, high power laser source, time coded for range, a unique focal plane array (FPA) that decodes the la ...