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The purpose of this proposal is to build a diagnostic Micro Power Radar (MPR) to track projectiles and detect voids during hard target penetration. Current smart fuzes use algorithms based on accelerometers output. This is problematic due to the mechanical noise introduced by impact, and the uncertain behavior demonstrated by penetrators under nearly identical test impacts. The addition of non-ine ...

During Phase 2 we will develop growth methods and refine the growth system to produce millimeter-thick, periodically oriented GaAs in a single growth step. A commercial source of OP-GaAs thick films does not exist. Among present producers, a 1.0 mm film has been grown, but reproducible production in commercial quantities would require resolution of several yield, productivity and quality issues. ...

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) is the worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) receive filter systems for commercial and military applications. STI has deployed nearly 6,000 such filter systems having a cumulative run time of over 165 million hours and an MTBF of over 500,000 hours. STI¡¦s highly selective and sensitive RF filters are fabricated from H ...

It is desirable to make a new generation of electromagnetic wave (EM) detectors that are (a) capable of providing true multispectral imaging & (b) wavelength agile over the visible through sub-mm wave (THz) region. In Phase I, the Tanner/Stanford team demonstrated that plasmon lensing can be used to provide multispectral imaging. Prototypes of such detectors were fabricated in the visible region ...

The goal of the proposed Phase II work is to advance the development of ultra narrowband (UNB) multistatic systems for urban environments by developing algorithms, simulating radar performance, performing design tradeoff studies, and building a basic data collection system. The TSC program includes five tasks: 1) Investigate and develop tomographic algorithms with the objective of understanding ...

Our primary technical objective is to complete the development of TSC's innovative concept for coherent multistatic AMTI or GMTI from radar systems that utilize a single high altitude transmitter and multiple close-range receivers moving with arbitrary, but known trajectories. This concept is based on an extension of our Generalized STAP theory to support air and ground moving target detection in ...

A key objective of our project is to develop advanced algorithms and software to track people and vehicles in an urban environment using video imagery from multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Track continuity of targets of interest (TOI) is an essential requirement. Collaborative UAV trajectory planning and camera pointing to collect continuous observations on one or more TOI by a team of UA ...

Rhenium has been successfully demonstrated in tactical solid rocket motor applications because of its high melting point and strength at elevated temperatures. However, rhenium comes with a significant weight and cost penalty when used in monolithic form. Low-cost refractory ceramics such as hafnium carbide (HfC) have increased temperature capability, lower density, and are more chemically inert, ...

In the Prompt Global Strike (PGS)-Conventional Strike Missile (CSM) program, the Air Force is seeking a mid-term, land-based conventional weapon system capable of striking targets halfway around the globe within an hour of an order to launch. While candidate long-term systems are likely to include conventional variants of current ballistic missile capabilities, the PGS-CSM concept is expected to c ...

Airborne network will form an integral and inseparable part of the global information grid. The link characteristics of the airborne network are very different from those of fixed internet and the terrestrial mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, which make the routing problem for airborne network a unique and challenging one. The nodes of the airborne network are highly sophisticated airborne platform ...