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Puckboard  is a real-time collaborative flight scheduling platform available worldwide to service members using any device. Featuring an intuitive user interface that feels natural and familiar, Puckboard innovates squadron operations and enables service members to focus on the mission at hand. The platform is fully certified and authorized to operate on military or civilian networks and was the ...

UHAC has demonstrated the capability to operate in water, mud, sand, and over rough terrain. The CACs are the foundation of the concept and those used on the technology demonstrator vehicles possessed the necessary functionality, but lacked the durability required for military vehicles. Under this proposal CACs with the necessary durability will be developed and tested. Also addressed will be the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): West Nile virus infection is an emerging infectious disease in the United States. The virus infects birds, which serve as the natural reservoir for the virus, in addition to humans and horses which are incidental h

Improved head and hearing protection is required for aircraft maintainers working on a carrier flight deck during launch and recovery operations. Legacy Flight Deck Cranials are inadequate in many aspects including hearing protection, impact protection, cleaning, comfort, and compatibility with night vision devices (NVDs) and with chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) equipment. In this p ...

Ultra-light weight, highly conductive carbon nanotube sheets that can be bonded to graphite composites while also conducting in the GHz region have potential to broadly improve EMI/ESD systems. These materials have additional applications including: EMI cable shielding, EMI/EMP electronics protection, preventing unwanted EMI emissions, highly conductive ground planes, and ESD layers. This proposa ...

Hydrothermal vents emit large amounts of hot water, which has the potential to produce electric power. This type of power source can enable remote sea sensors and communication networks, recharge unmanned underwater vehicles, and facilitate a variety of other deep sea activities. Developing a power system for this application is challenging because the environment is extremely corrosive, mineral p ...

The effort conducted in Phase I concluded that a robust harbor underwater surveillance system capable of identifying and tracking Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), based around advancing existing mid-to-high frequency swimmer detection sonar technology, is feasible but extremely challenging. It will require a heterogeneous, distributed, integrated, and multistatic approach, with a level of syst ...

The Navy submarine force needs the ability stand and fight in the littorals against ASW helicopters. This can be accomplished by modifying VLS tubes to launch modified AAW weapons, UAVs, and surveillance systems from submerged submarines. A major cost driver associated with submerged encapsulated devices is the launch tubes. The tubes must meet submarine operating loads associated with gas generat ...

The SDSN is a proven system concept for cost effective swimmer detection, tracking and classification. Here we propose to design, build, and test a transportable version of the system that can be used for test and evaluation in different environments. It can also develop into the prototype of a system that can be used for rapid response to a threat situation. Under the options tasks of this eff ...

Within the hypersonic missile community, it is generally known that Mentis Sciences, Inc. (MSI) is developing a candidate Quartz/Polysiloxane radome solution for the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC3) system. This solution is presently in the process of being evaluated for the relevant hypersonic rain erosion environs and full-scale thermal/structural loading. At this time, it has exceeded all mec ...