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Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with improved safety, abuse tolerance, reliability, and volumetric and gravimetric energy densities are needed for Navy aircraft including the Joint Strike Fighter, H-1 Light Attack Helicopter, and other aircraft. Despite their high energy densities, current lithium-ion batteries can combust and release highly toxic chemicals under failure mechanisms such as over ...

The objective of this proposal is to design and develop multimode dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) operating in a wide frequency band from 30 MHz to 2 GHz covering VHF/UHF Line-of-site (LOS) communications, UHF Satellite communications, and L band including GPS frequencies. The DRA elements have many advantages such as wideband nature, small size, and high power capability as compared with mic ...

Our innovative solution leverages existing commercial solid state drives (SSDs) and the flexibility offered by an FPGA-based solution to deliver an order of magnitude increase in data recording capability at an order of magnitude decrease in system cost, with a significant reduction in size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements compared to existing systems. This solution follows Mustang's establi ...

Mustang proposes to modify the 25-year old mode control board in the seeker to add an interface to the GCU. This would enable the affordable implementation of the target selection algorithms in the GCU, which has available throughput to implement them. The mode control board currently has access to the required data and control signals necessary for the GCU to implement a good track-while-scan cap ...

This effort to improve the capabilities of the ESM system will increase the reliability and reduce lifecycle support costs of the Radar Wideband (RWB) subsystem on submarines. Analog to digital converter (A/D) based digital receivers will be applied to yield improvements in Radar signal acquisition and processing. In-phase and Quadrature (I/Q) data streams will be created from which intra pulse mo ...

RDRTec Inc. proposes to develop and test innovative processor architectures for ship classification and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) for both stand-alone Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) images and fusion with simultaneous EO/IR sensor images when available.

There is a need to more accurately test Digital RF Memory (DRFM) devices in an Installed System Test Facility (ISTF) in order to reduce cost and time required in comparison with flight testing. The Joint Integrated Mission Model (JIMM) is a mission-level, discrete-event, general-purpose simulator that is capable of integrated operation with real hardware components. As such it is ideally suited to ...

RDRTec Inc. and SAIC propose to develop, compare, and test innovative multi-polarization techniques that will both increase the information content in Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar (ISAR) images as well as exploit that information to increase the robustness of maritime classification tools that assist sensor operators in rapidly and accurately classifying ships and small boats in the littoral z ...

The high cost and low mechanical strength of windows and domes that protect the multimode sensors on missiles and maximize their mode of operation have been a concern for a long time for the Department of Defense. Crucial requirements for this application are: a) excellent infrared transmission, b) very good mechanical properties and c) ability to withstand harsh environmental conditions. Multis ...

Mustang proposes to begin with its existing VIPER radar, which meets the performance requriements, and take a four-tiered approach to reducing power consumption while maintaining performance. Mustang has successfully followed a similar low-risk approach when reducing the power consumption of previous products.