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Despite advances in automated instruction, virtual environment (VE)-based shiphandling trainers still significantly depend upon expert mariners, with individual instructors typically working with only a single active student at a time. This bottleneck makes it difficult to realize the full benefit of VE training systems. Promising support technologies, such as the Conning Officer Virtual Environme ...

TeraDiode is developing a low Size, Weight, and Power (SWAP) multi-band MWIR/LWIR laser module for NAVSEA under SBIR funding. TeraDiode is employing high power Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) bars in this laser module and WBC to combine the multiple wavelengths. The laser module is very compact and has three wavelength bands in the MWIR and LWIR as well as high power per band (>10 W per band average p ...

ABSTRACT: ASTM standards exist currently to characterize various combustion characteristics of flammable chemicals such as flammability limits, flash point, minimum ignition energy, and auto ignition temperature. There are no such well-accepted characterization protocols for hot surface ignition temperature measurements. This is partly due to a large variation in the (i) test setups used in the li ...

A key challenge toward future directed energy systems is the development of power and thermal management technologies needed to support the laser systems, particularly pump diodes.I2C Solutions and the University of Colorado have developed a Thermal Ground Plane (TGP) technology that interfaces with doide laser bars in order to spread heat and transport it to the laser cooling loop.During Phase II ...

Theoretical computing speeds have increased dramatically in the last decade with chip advances, including Graphics Processor Units (GPUs).In practice, however, these gains have not been realized, largely due to the accompanying high development costs due to the need for multiple code bases to take advantage of the various chips and their variants.The proposed project addresses these issues from bo ...

During the course of this proposed Phase II program, Metamagnetics Inc. will continue the efforts toward development of a compact solid-state High Power Radio-Frequency (HPRF) source by building upon the results obtained from our Phase I effort, whereby a proof-of-feasibility demonstration of an innovative c (NLTL) for the generation of HPRF signals was achieved.This proposed system will be capabl ...

Defending against state-of-the-art cyber attacks such as Advanced Persistent Threats requires rapid, automated, and accurate prioritization of cyber alerts to provide timely and comprehensive cyber-situational awareness. Context Aware INference for Advanced Persistent Threat (CAIN for APT) will address this important operational need by developing, evaluating, and transitioning our innovative case ...

Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are often first responders, addressing crises such as natural disasters and regional instability. Crowdsourcing provides a powerful potential tool to help MEU analysts collect and analyze information in new operational settings, but Marines need tools to manage crowdsourcing. MapReduce addresses a similar distributed parallel processing problem, without the divers ...

ABSTRACT:During a Phase I effort, Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) successfully developed a nonflammable ionic liquid (IL) based electrolyte that can be used as a drop in replacement in commercial cells for Air Force applications. The proposed program will continue to optimize the performance of this electrolyte and demonstrate the ability to construct safer Li-ion pouch and cylindrical cells. During ...

In Phase I of this SBIR, Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) developed a design for a compact, rugged, capacitor-charging converter for the Navy Electromagnetic Railgun (EMRG) program. Evaluation and testing of critical design elements were completed, and prototype subassemblies are planned under the Phase I option. This development will allow production of two prototype units in Phase II. To dat ...