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The use of high performance lubricating grease and transmission oil in the Armys ground and airborne vehicles can (i) enhance the performance and life of these systems, particularly in hot climates, (ii) reduce the heat signature, and (iii) help reduce the weight of thermal control systems, thereby enhancing the fuel efficiency of the vehicles. In the Phase I program, we began developing a new cla ...

Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI), with its teammates, University of Colorado and Boeing, proposes to leverage its collective expertise with radar systems design, Electromagnetics (EM) modeling, antenna design, advanced processing architectures, and radar signal processing algorithms to research, identify, and architect a short range THz imaging radar for aircraft navigation. The THz-gap extends fro ...

The Army requires a credit card-sized device that allows forward HUMINT collectors to communicate formatted messages with Brigade level personnel located up to 15 km away. During Phase I, Li Creative Technologies has analyzed the requirements and found the most efficient way to develop the device. Several COST PCB modules have been identified to construct the device with minimal risk. During Phase ...

Accurate Position Location Information (PLI) enables deployment and coordination of ground-based assets, e.g. soldiers and ground vehicles, and is required for safe and effective completion of diverse missions. PLI from computer machine vision, e.g. visual navigation, has the potential to replace GPS in urban, indoor, high cover, and jammed GPS environs. An additional benefit to visual navigation ...

The VanDyne SuperTurbocharger a single device capable of supercharging, turbo charging and turbo compounding. The device mechanically controls the speed ratio between the engine crankshaft and the turbine/compressor. The SuperTurbocharger allows for improved engine transient response, increased power levels and an increase of overall fuel efficiency. During Phase I of this SBIR, VanDyne has comple ...

ABSTRACT: Space surveillance is that component of space situational assessment and protection that makes use of multisource data to track and identify space objects. Given the increasing importance of space, the need to protect space assets, and the increasing number of objects in space, an automated system of tracking and anomaly detection is required to support decision makers. Such a sy ...

ABSTRACT: AFRL has performed basic research in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) for many years. With the successful execution of multiple programs during the past few years, AFRL has become the de facto center of mass in the SSA research and development community. Perhaps one of the most critical areas of SSA is that of satellite conjunction analysis (CA). While CA has been performed operational ...

ABSTRACT: A significant need exists for space antennas which provide high gain, small stowed volume, and the ability to generate both wide and narrow beams. Currently available UHF antennas for space applications do not offer a clear path for higher gain apertures, as this would require either the addition of large antenna elements, or scaling a reflector. The former is not an option with volum ...

This Phase II work develops technology for the capture of aircraft status information using a speech-based auditory input program running on a PDA (Personal Data Assistant) in high intensity sound fields as experienced during standard Navy carrier flight ops. In addition we will develop an optically-based communication technology for transferring the collected flight data into the ADMACs shipboard ...

We propose to develop a high frame-rate, large-area, amplitude-only SLM for use in atmospheric correction. The Phase I will demonstrate the concept through the fabrication/evaluation of amplitude-only modulators, as well as an addressing structure that is economical for large-areas. Phase II will scale the addressing structure to 128X128 or higher density, for fabrication of large area amplitude ...