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Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components may be used to reduce the cost of the laser electronics needed for mid-infrared lasers being developed for infrared countermeasures applications. The Phase II project will develop circuit designs for these laser electronics using COTS components and demonstrate these laser electronics can operate in military environments. The laser electronics will be v ...

Power supply systems are – compared to other electronic systems – highly susceptible to failure due to the high voltage and current conditions they routinely operate in. JSF operational reliability could be greatly enhanced by ensuring power supply performance in fielded systems. A power supply system is made up of various devices, all of which are interconnected with solder welds. During Phas ...

The widespread use of communication devices and radar systems has made our society increasingly vulnerable to disruptive, high-power, short pulse electromagnetic interference (EMI) and high power microwaves (HPM). Significant advances in devices that produce these high-power, short pulses have been made in the US and abroad in the past few decades. As a result, the need for devices that can prot ...

The proceedings from the 16 August 1999 HCF Probabilistics Steering Committee meeting indicate that material behavior is a leading root cause of HCF problems in blades, vanes, and seals. A conventionally used component lifing practice is to conduct a Goodman type analysis to estimate the resistance to HCF failure. However the true resistance of a component to HCF loading is dependent on the steady ...

Accurate Automation Corporation’s main objective of the SENTINEL SYSTEM is to provide a 24/7 presence on the water without putting valuable human resources in harm’s way. Capable of being controlled remotely or configured for autonomous operation, the SENTINEL SYSTEM is an attractive solution to a range of marine applications. The SENTINEL can interdict threats in the maritime and littoral ...

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) N101-004, Air Anti-Submarine Warfare Modeling and Simulation Tool, was issued to determine the feasibility of developing an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) tool to bridge the current gap between engineering and campaign-level tools. For this Subsequent Phase II, Sonalysts proposes to develop a FDECO Test Range Simulator (TRS) bas ...

Composite structures for submarines require high strength and high fracture toughness to survive underwater shock blasts. These structures have historically been built using rubber-toughened epoxy pre-impregnated (pre-pregs) reinforcements. However, experience has shown that pre-pregs can be difficult to work with, especially for thick section parts, and require expensive, size-limited, autoclav ...

The SBIR Phase II will demonstrate scale-up, manufacturability and performance benefits of stabilized nano-ZnO adsorbents in bench scale testing of diesel desulfurization for fuel cell applications. Logistic fuels are a desirable fuel choice for military based fuel cell applications. However, distillate fuels must be processed to a fuel useable by the fuel cell. Diesel fuels have high sulfur le ...

The Multi-sensor ASW Pod System (MAPS) effort will develop an integrated system for vertical takeoff unmanned aerial vehicle anti-submarine warfare operations. MAPS will be composed of a podded system capable of conducting acoustic search operations, utilizing standard A-size sonobuoys and bathythermobuoys, and localized Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) final targeting operations, utilizing modern ...

We are developing a platform for pharmacometric data analysis workflow that is much more flexible and efficient than anything else on the market. This will be accomplished by (1) developing new functions within Stan, a widely used, open-source, probabilistic programming language and Bayesian inference engine, for computationally efficient data analysis using complex differential equation models, ( ...