Electronic Warfare Basic Research

Will research foundational integrated circuit physical design methods for new design tools; research digital integrated circuit design; explore materials suitable for ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) circuits; study appropriate algorithms to integrate with circuits for computation; research circuits for edge inferencing for…

Will explore the signaling pathway from EMS activity to information processing and decision-making in complex EM-cyber systems; investigate new concepts of EMS payloads that could efficiently induce cyber effects with limited information; examine the generation of complex broadband waveforms within non-conventional EM; analyze new game…

Will conduct research to safely exploit vast amounts of data from uncontrolled assets to reduce information uncertainty; explore intelligent network partitioning to support cooperative data communication, fusion, and processing in a distributed manner; conduct experiments with increased complexity of inference tasks to provide more…

Will study mode superposition and turbulence effects on coherent beam combination; explore novel reflectometry techniques for object classification in controlled and ambient conditions; investigate artificial intelligence/machine learning identified concepts for high-speed inverse design of optics systems.

Will examine the relationship between the Th-229 nuclear transition and host material phonon and optical behaviors; investigate computational methods to identify electronic structure coupling within the Th-229 materials; conduct experiments to characterize the effects of the external conditions on the nuclear transition.

Will study coupled photonic phenomena to examine light-matter interactions in the UV and IR; investigate structure-function relationships of different material geometries; conduct experiments to analyze the tunability of advanced three-dimensional structures for multi-functional behaviors; explore novel synthesis and fabrication…

Will explore widely tunable RF filters providing passive voltage amplification for electronic warfare (EW) spectrum sensing, including the reduction and limits of coupled modes and high electromechanical coupling factor resonators; study the acoustic modulation of dielectric breakdown in sub-micron features and the generated frequency…

Will investigate UWBG material performance under high power and temperature operation; explore novel design architectures to enhance UWBG material properties; validate the use of physics informed artificial intelligence/machine learning to guide discovery and design of materials and device assemblies; conduct research integrating theory…

Will investigate full three-dimensional device simulation capability for ultrawide band gap devices, including electrical/thermal transport physics; utilize model to develop preliminary designs for ultrawide band gap power devices.

Will identify in situ characterization methods to understand fundamental electro-mechanical microscopic degradation mechanisms for ceramic and polymeric electrolytes; investigate regenerative electrode/electrolyte materials science and mechanisms enabling self-healing solid-state interfaces; explore ceramic/conducting oxide processing…

Will investigate the theory behind self-accelerating beams (SABs) that impart their unique properties and propagation behaviors; conduct experiments to characterize the behavior of SABs and explore their generation, transport and detection; identify network assemblies that leverage SABs for multi-node communication array.

Will explore novel multi-dimensional materials and architectures capable of seamless integration of sensors and processors within a single device for high performance sensing and computing; investigate three-dimensional adaptive structures capable of dynamic reconfiguration based on real-time stimuli input; conduct experiments to…

Will investigate methods for establishing and propagating shared world models, including threat assessments, within human-agent teams; examine strategies for disparate agents and humans to develop mutual understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities of adversarial communications capabilities towards the identification of…

Will investigate methods for and fundamental limits of measuring angle of arrival of RF signals using quantum sensors; investigate methods to improve signal-to-noise for small size, high-spatial-resolution electromagnetic sensors; investigate methods for rapid quantum material characterization for improved quantum sensor; investigate…

Foundational Quantum Sensing: Will investigate potential advantage of enhanced imaging capabilities using quantum sensors and quantum interferometric techniques; investigate ion detection as a possible dramatic improvement to sensor readout methods and compare with spectroscopic readout techniques; investigate nonlinear coupling regime…

Semi Conductor Consortium: Will identify physics gaps in three-dimensional (3D) technology-computer-aided design (TCAD) models in ultra-wide band gap RF and power-switching devices through experimental validation. Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center: Will examine the design and synthesis of low defect density, high carrier mobility materials…

Adaptive Wavefront Control: Will examine the effects of surface texture on adaptive optics; investigate novel system architectures to minimize cooling requirements; analyze computing requirements necessary for design calculations. Attritable RF EW High Power (ARF-WHiP): Will investigate designs to increase carrier mobility and blocking…

Will conduct select experimental and theoretical studies of topological materials, two-dimensional materials, novel magnetic materials, and heterostructures to reveal novel phenomena for concepts in low-power sensing and information processing.

Will conduct experiments to refine and validate models for photocatalyzed chemical fuels reactions; conduct research on transferability of machine learned force fields for modeling ion solvation and transport in battery electrolytes and application therein.

Will explore new, micro-resonator technologies for chip-scale, ultra-low-phase-noise microwave oscillators.

Will investigate the role of programmable, nanoscale surface enhancements on heat dissipation characteristics between fluids and solid for multifunctional thermal management components.

Will investigate incorporating constraints in machine learning models of complex physical systems; investigate new multi-fidelity assimilation methods for machine learning of physical systems, based on previous identification of knowledge gaps in multi-fidelity machine learning; explore feasibility of employing machine-learning models…

Will apply high fidelity modeling codes to explore effects of compositional inhomogeneities in compound semiconductors on carrier transport in heterostructures relevant to high sensitivity sensing and imaging across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Will explore algorithms and models to resolve large uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms based on high-resolution, distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing architectures.

Will refine high-performance modeling and simulation of integrated multi-modal sensor data to detect and classify targets of interest for electronic warfare (EW) in resource-constrained environments to include vehicles, unattended ground systems, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV), and the prime power infrastructure; conduct investigation on…

Will explore nitrogen-vacancy-based, inertial sensing and associated charge carrier mobility/scattering mechanisms; explore the benefits of combining laser radar (LIDAR) and chip-scale, free-space optical communications for use in contested environments; conduct research on RF sensing and effects within a relevant payload and obtain data…

Will investigate electromechanical designs and feedback mechanisms that mitigate noise processes in electrostatic gaps informing the limits of capacitive detection for numerous sensing applications; conduct research on initially merged electronic/ photonic architectures and materials identified to establish the state of the art baseline…

Will validate temperature stability within a high temperature memory device architecture using ferroelectric nitride materials based on silicon carbide templates; explore non-Hermitian meta-optics structures for control and manipulation of infrared radiation from multiple sources; investigate compatibility of potassium tantalate niobate…

Will investigate performance of solid-state protection materials in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) imaging system testbed against short and ultrashort pulsed lasers for Uncrewed Systems (UxS) survivability.

Will investigate alternative diamond substrate configurations to enable epitaxial overgrowth of diamond and cubic boron nitride thin films to fabricate high-power, small form-factor radio frequency (RF) devices; research topological, two-dimensional, and magnetic materials and heterostructures to devise concepts for electromagnetic (EM)…