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The team proposes to leverage their expertise to develop an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant of Area-Is Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated Unmanned System (ALTIUS). ALTIUS, meaning higher in Latin, represents a paradigm shift in the performance of small, tube-launched unmanned aircraft. Core features and capabilities of the ALTIUS-ASW will include: A highly efficient, lightweight, composite airfram ...

The objectives of the Phase II effort are to demonstrate the safety of the developed obscurant device for use in US Navy aircraft as an airborne expendable countermeasure, to optimize performance and to make the obscurant device fully compatible with existing Navy countermeasure dispensing systems.

This is a Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00014-11-C-0400. The proposed research deals with production of oxygen for use by air independent solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) in unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). Oxygen is produced via thermal decomposition of an aqueous lithium chlorate solution using waste heat from the SOFC. Efforts include demonstration of oxygen produ ...

The Navy and USMC desire innovative technology solutions to upgrade its electrical energy conversion capabilities in order to reduce volume, weight, and cost for efficiently executing land- and sea-based operations. Global Technology Connection, Inc. (GTC) in collaboration with its university and industrial partners, established the feasibility of developing a high power density, high efficiency u ...

Our goal in this Phase II effort is to construct and test a compact, robust testbed for generating laser-cooled strontium atoms on a mobile platform. The focus of the Phase I effort was designing and fabricating an ovenized strontium source that also serves as a 2D+ MOT cell. In Phase II, we will integrate the strontium source into an all-glass-and-silicon vacuum system maintained by a miniature i ...

Military personnel must be protected from diseases transmitted by ticks and fleas, including Lyme disease. Effective surveillance of tick and flea vectors is vital to determine the population present, whether they are carrying disease, and whether control campaigns are working. Unfortunately, current surveillance tools are ineffective. In Phase I TDA designed, prototyped, and tested a novel ti ...

Carrier aviation is dependent on the ability to recover aircraft expeditiously and safely aboard ship. The system that arrests the aircraft, the Arresting Gear system, utilizes slippers or bearing materials between moving components. A major shortcoming of the current slipper material is its swelling when exposed to ethylene glycol, which causes clearance issues in the operating equipment, resulti ...

Heureka and Lockheed Martin will develop an AI-based approach to replicate human change request analysis. The approach utilizes state-of-the-art knowledge engineering to elicit expert tacit rules from past CRs. To replicate current processes, we will build and train models which replicate each product area's reasoning. This has several benefits. First, it emulates current human based processes (pr ...

Drawing on its experiences with a variety of radar system designs, both as the sole designer and as a team member, Colorado Engineering, Inc. (CEI) with teammate Saab Defense and Security USA LLC, proposes to research the state-of-the-market, model, simulate, and analyze the trade-space of five alternative radar front-end designs, which all utilize band pass filters: Direct RF Sampling (DRFS) util ...

The purpose of this phase II is to design, build, and deliver wide-angle, high speed, non-mechanical laser beamsteerers that operate in the Mid Wave InfraRed (MWIR: 3.7 < < 4.9 m). These will be enabled through a combination of three innovations: i) Steerable Electro-Evanescent Optical Refractors (SEEORs) for high speed, continuous, wide-angle, beamsteering, ii) Polarization Gratings (PGs ...