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RDRTec’s RACAS’s Active Element Scanned Array design approach to meet collision avoidance performance, SWaPC and cost goals utilizes RDRTec’s unique array topology.RDRTec has been developing, enhancing, and extending the Common Radar Airborne Collision Avoidance System (C-RACAS) and associated modeling and simulation tools for non-cooperative conflict avoidance for both Triton and Fire Scout ...

MCA is an innovative combination of maritime feature extraction algorithms, target database, and user interface that aid operators in rapidly and effectively classify maritime targets. To date MCA has exploited scattering features that are the result of scattering off static (non-rotating) ship structure returns as well as wake returns in Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) and High Range Reso ...

As a cloud-like architecture is adopted by mission critical System of Systems (SoS), the problem of system management is critically important to solve in order to ensure continuity of operations. System operators and maintainers need a way to manage system resources and restore a system to health when subsystems in the SoS are sharing these resources. A technology to determine and present Courses ...

Nanohmics proposes to develop a hyperspectral imager for aft-looking sensing of phenomenology associated with target vehicles.The payload is designed to operate with existing components and has no moving parts.The high spectral resolution will provide feedback for signature models and the spatial resolution will allow the spectral signatures to be associated with specific phenomena.Approved for Pu ...

Several factors (such as overcharge, impact, manufacturing issues, etc.) can produce a failure in lithium batteries used by the U.S. Navy. When a fault occurs, the Li battery can release toxic and flammable gases which can start and feed a fire, cause significant equipment damage, and present catastrophic hazards to personnel safety. Early signals of a battery issue can occur internally. If detect ...

All solid-state batteries can offer increased energy and improved safety for naval aircraft applications. Recently, the ionic conductivity of solid electrolytes has improved significantly. Current solid-state batteries however, still suffer from low power and short cycle life, especially at low temperatures, due to poor interfacial conductivity and stability between solid electrolytes and electrod ...

In Phase I, initial CONOPS and architecture analysis was performed at an unclassified level to inform the multi-static image exploitation portion of this study and to support operational viability. Additionally, the Osprey tug was electromagnetically modeled and techniques established for end-to-end generation of realistic monostatic & bistatic EM scattering for ships embedded in the ocean with mo ...

Explosions and high-velocity impacts can create strain rates on the order of 105 to 107 s-1. To simulate these events, first-principles codes require material models that are valid at these loading rates. Currently, the amount of test data, material models and material constants for this strain rate range is extremely limited, and an innovative and cost-effective laboratory test procedure is neede ...

CL-20 is the most powerful conventional explosive known, but its high cost has limited its adoption in a range of potential applications. Par of the challenge in making these materials is the complexity of the reaction used to prepare the polycyclic cage. The complexity of this reaction makes it difficult to have insight into the reaction and to improve it. Additionally, several of the intermediat ...

BST Systems, Inc. is the first company to have developed a large-format, sealed and completely maintenance-free, rechargeable silver-zinc (Ag-Zn) cell. The Smart Sealed Ag-Zn (SS-Ag-Zn) features two innovationsan automatic gas balancer (AGB) and microprocessor-based algorithm-driven smart system manager (SSM)that together with a commercial catalyst automatically manage gases to maintain low, sub-a ...