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Inventing the technological building blocks of future systems
R&D in advanced technology focuses on inventing new materials, devices, and components to enable revolutionary system capabilities. We pursue innovation in a wide set of areas, including imagers, lasers, quantum computing, microsystems, RF technology, and chemical sensors.

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Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass
An innovative approach to additive manufacturing of multimaterial glass items precludes the need for costly high-temperature processing techniques.
Superconducting Content-Addressable Memories (SuperCAMs)
Unconventional memory circuits can accelerate data processing in cyber sensing devices by reducing the latency of matching complex data patterns to specialized processing pipelines.
Mitigating cellular network congestion through adaptive beamforming with reflectarrays
A low-cost, reconfigurable radio receiver architecture provides an alternative approach to filter out unwanted transmissions in millimeter-wave (MMW) signals.
Guiding Light in Air-Filled Fibers for Long-Distance Lasercom
A new type of fiber could transmit the high-power light needed for future deep-space science and exploration missions.
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Dave Kharas
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Advanced Technology for National Security Workshop (ATNS) 2025
Featured Publications
Nearfield anechoic chamber and farfield on-site antenna calibration pattern comparison of an S-band planar phased array radar
Effect of a wet spherical radome on the reflected power for an S-band planar phased array radar antenna
Multilayer microhydraulic actuators with speed and force configurations
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