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Software defined radios (SDRs) have redefined many areas of modern electronics, from enabling reconfigurable communications to rapid prototyping of new electronic support concepts. However, current implementations of SDRs are limited by the underlying electronic approaches used to realize them. Herein, we describe a novel photonically-enabled SDR (PESDR) that utilized the inherently broadband natu ...

Cloud Based and Tiered Automated and Efficient Extract Transformation and Labeling of Textual Data in a practical, rigid and structured way. 200 million characters per hour deterministic formal machine translation of raw and ambiguous documents. • Common input file types include; pdf, doc, ppt, txt, csv, xls, html, etc. • Structuring is 100% accurate (hash value provable) • Struc ...

Inductive Ventures (IV) has successfully demonstrated a new electromagnetic based system built on low cost of ownership, high-torque to low-weight performance, high reliability, and higher level of safety control of braking forces would better serve the aerospace industry and offer significant advantages over carbon brakes, including: 1. Recapture some of the available kinetic energy during the la ...

Autonomous emplacement of sensors and unmanned ground vehicles by airdrop requires that the payload stay upright after impact and that the parachute, container, and any impact attenuation is derigged from the payload automatically after landing. The 5-50 lb payload scale of sensors and small unmanned ground vehicles offers tremendous freedom for rapid innovation in airdrop technology. The design s ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

This project aims to develop a low-cost millimeter-wave (mmW) imaging system for ground vehicles, to operate in combination with a long-wave infrared (LWIR)camera. Such a system will mitigate the challenges of driving in degraded visual environments (DVE) including night time, fog, dust, or smoke by providing real-time image of the vehicle surrounding independent from the presence of naturally occ ...

The objective of this proposal is to adapt a commercially available gravity infusion monitor to wirelessly integrate with BATDOK and other commercial patient monitoring systems. The scope of this effort spans hardware design, software engineering, and field testing with the 711th HPW and 103rd RQS. Intravenously (IV) administered medications are essential and versatile for treating critical patien ...

Tyndall AFB and AFWERX Austin have a national defense-related mission need in the area of advanced facilitation, problem definition and the identification of solutions. Specifically, how do we establish an environment that fosters collaboration, a system of methodologies for the facilitation of problem definition, and the connection points to industry outreach for the identification of solutions? ...

Gun barrels are subjected to wear and erosion from the hot propellant gases and high loads from the passage of projectiles. Sustained fire duration and rate of fire are largely limited by barrel thermal considerations, since the heat buildup in the barrel can cause rounds to fire prematurely (cook-off) or weaken the barrel and cause catastrophic failure. A cost effective solution of using a wear r ...

Chemiresistors are an important class of electronic sensors that detect the presence of analytes/chemicals via a change in the resistance of a sensor element. A typical interdigitated electrode array is deposited onto an insulating substrate with metallic electrodes that have feature sizes in the micron range. The metal electrodes are typically sputter coated onto the substrate, using lithographic ...