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Proposed Approach: BeaverFit seeks to satisfy the requirements of this proposal and subsequent SBIR phases through four main technical objectives (TO). Metrics of success will be applied to each TO to validate the effectiveness of the project and track progress toward accomplishment of the desired end state. Key measures of performance identified within the TO include cost, timelines, and throughp ...

This effort is more than just a facility innovation question. It is existential to the Army’s preparation for the future fight.  SPRC’s can’t just be a new evolution of fitness facility, but they must meet new soldiers where they are, and lead them to their potential as soldiers.  The right SPRC program will affect recruiting and retention, and ultimately the Army’s global force generati ...

Stellar Science proposes a military operation simulator with high-speed, multi-domain capabilities as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) interfaces in which AI-enabled command and control (C2) agents will learn by executing simulated multi-domain operations (MDO). The simulator will be based on an existing government-owned modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) tool, ...

The U.S. Army has a future need for multiple secondary high explosive compositions that can also be used interchangeably as rocket propellants. In this proposal we will discuss a method of preparing such compositions via advanced spray drying technology and involving the use of a highly insensitive spray dried nitramine or CL-20 composition which have been plasticized with an energetic polymer t ...

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The development and implementation of a new tension Kolsky bar system for testing brittle materials is proposed in this effort.  Due to the relatively low failure stress and strain of brittle materials tested in tension, it is difficult for researchers to obtain axial stress equilibrium in the sample using a traditional Kolsky tension bar system.  The lack of axial stress equilibrium during th ...

Resodyn has developed the novel Resonant Acoustic Continuous Crystallizer (RACC) concept which is specifically configured for the recrystallization of energetic nitramines. This technology employs the Resonant Acoustic Mixing technology, which results in a uniform shear field throughout the mixing vessel. Radial mixing is accomplished to such a significant degree that true plug flow is achieved. C ...

The Geiger-Müller tube (or G-M tube) tube is in common use as a dose rate sensor. However, it is expensive for large-scale deployment, requires a high voltage and counting circuitry to operate, and requires several tubes in the device, if a large dose rate range is to be covered. Many alternative detector technologies exist. Many of them can be mass produced at reasonable price, but they are eith ...

Free-space optical communication (FSOC) provides a much higher modulation bandwidth than RF communication. Narrow optical beams provide enhanced security, although they are much more sensitive than RF to platform disturbances and the atmosphere. Turbulence causes beam wander, broadening, and breakup (scintillation) on the transmit laser and dynamic aberrations at the receiver, especially when the ...