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TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Chemical/Bio Defense, Biomedical, Sensors OBJECTIVE: For the defense of toxic chemical and biological agents, the objective is to develop a broad-based biosensor, with “off” to “on” functionality that will allow for sensing of potential hazards. DESCRIPTION: Many sensors exist for detecting chemical and biological agents in non-biological environments. However, low ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Develop new electric propulsion concepts with highly flexible operating envelope of thrust and specific impulse for both rapid maneuvering of large space assets and highly efficient orbit and station-keeping. DESCRIPTION: The ability to rapidly perform space maneuvers, between various orbital inclinations, or between geostationary and low earth or ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Sensors OBJECTIVE: To explore next-generation nanoscale dynamic imaging microscope technologies employing Coherent Diffractive Imaging combined with a tabletop-scale coherent EUV/ soft x-ray sources. DESCRIPTION: Intense femtosecond laser pulses propagating through gases can generate, through a process known as high harmonic generation, coherent extreme ultraviolet and x-ra ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate novel IP routing protocols onboard over satellites that would link user preferences and network conditions and improve end-to-end network performance, including heterogeneity of satellite nodes, interferences of satellite links, etc. DESCRIPTION: The defense satellite communication system (DSCS) is a satellite syst ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Materials/Processes, Electronics OBJECTIVE: To develop conformal, light-weight and load-bearing antennas based on conductive textile threads that can endow small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) with operational capability down to the UHF band. DESCRIPTION: Communication missions of small UAV’s in low-altitude operation are severely limited for the signals from HAM radi ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Sensors OBJECTIVE: Develop physics-based MIMO radar clutter modeling and simulation capability. DESCRIPTION: Fundamental to the performance evaluation of putative optimal and adaptive MIMO radar signal processing algorithms is a characterization of clutter in terms of its statistical and spectral properties. Radar clutter is the resultant of many scattering mechanisms and c ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Electronics OBJECTIVE: Provide monitoring and control of remote devices that operate in autonomous domains while assuring integrity of end-to-end control functions using untrusted COTS operating systems and software. DESCRIPTION: The deployment, monitoring, and control of remote devices and applications operating in autonomous administrative domains ena ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Air Platform, Electronics OBJECTIVE: Enable significant improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of critical phenomena in flowfields relevant to AF air-breathing combustion systems via development of innovative high-bandwidth planar or volumetric imaging and quantitative measurements. DESCRIPTION: The development of air-breathing engines requires the utilization ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Electronics, Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Develop a Pulsed Electro-Acoustic or alternative technique to give volume charge distribution and electric fields within realistic spacecraft dielectric insulators at space-like radiation energies. DESCRIPTION: Pulsed Electro-Acoustic (PEA) techniques were developed to determine the internal charge distribution of high voltage power c ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: The United States Air Force is looking for technological innovations based on machine learning techniques for Dynamically Evolving Malware Detection in Data and Network Streams. DESCRIPTION: Polymorphic malware poses increasing challenges to effective signature-based antivirus protection; antivirus defenses have managed to stay ahead in the vi ...