Award Data

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 ...

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 and impact protection. In previous work, Creare has developed a Flight Deck Cranial (FDC) that offers unparalleled hearing protection and industrial standard head pro ...

Navy aircraft components require constant repair due to damage from field operations. In most cases, the damage is due to maintenance occurrences or service, due to Foreign Object Debris (FOD). Although the damage appears to be minor, the components need to be sent back to a Navy depot for disposition and repair, which is usually comprised of blending away the damage and substantially reducing the ...

The U.S. Navy requires a swaging tool for attaching arresting gear purchase cable terminals on ship. Swaging is a well understood process, and there are many suppliers of adequately powerful machines. However, these machines are too large and cumbersome to be used in the shipboard environment. Creare proposes to develop a high power density swaging machine that is lightweight, portable, and whi ...

Solid State Scientific Corporation is pleased to propose a CPP Phase II program to develop an uncooled hostile fire indication system with hostile fire identification. Algorithm concepts using bands in the visible through the (uncooled) SWIR will be explored for identifying threats and their angle of arrival while rejecting false alarm sources in clutter environments. The band pass of the narrow ...

Superconducting materials are ideal candidates for fault current limiters (FCL) due to their low insertion loss and inherent ability to transition to high impedance in a very short time. Creare proposes to develop an FCL based on the use of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) that can be applied directly to future U.S. Navy platforms. During Phase I, we developed an HTS FCL design and analyti ...

SuperConducting Electronics (SCE) systems are becoming commonplace due to their substantial benefits in performance and cost when compared to traditional, semiconductor-based components. To achieve widespread adoption of SCE systems, low-cost and rugged cryocoolers and associated drives are needed. Creare is developing a universal Tactical Cryocooler Drive (TCD) to address this need. Our TCD pr ...

The JHSV will reach speeds of 35+ knots and allow for the rapid transit and deployment of conventional or Special Operations Forces (SOF) as well as equipment and supplies. It is planned for an FY10 IOC. One of program’s objectives is to reduce the Reception, Staging, Onward movement and Integration (RSO&I) burden in theater. Although the JHSV will be small enough to provide austere port a ...

The current use of polymer matrix composite materials aboard U.S. Navy ships has been limited to mainly exterior parts such as DDX topside structures, sonar bow domes, towed array fairings, diving planes, control surfaces and the prototype submarine sail dome for VA class submarines. There has been increasing interest in the development of composite materials for applications inside ships and sub ...

Creare’s ultimate objective is to provide the Navy with an improved method for determining the elongation of aircraft carrier catapult cylinder rows. During Phase I, we developed benchtop prototypes and conducted extensive laboratory tests in representative environments and considered integration options in detail. Based on these prototypes, we established an overall system topology, shipboard ...