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As stated in this SBIR solicitation, “The Navy's Program Executive Office for Ships is leveraging the National Research Program (NSRP) to effect change across… surface shipbuilding…to adapt and implement "World Class" commercial best manufacturing practices.” Shipyard Process technology is identified as an area of high relative benefit within the NSRP Strategic Investment Plan. The ove ...

PHM investments can successfully diagnose up to 70% of damage fault indications. The cost of empirically-based testing is very high and must be reworked for every gear system design change. Physics-based FEA combined with long crack modeling can be self-adapting and overcome the high cost of pure statistical approaches but still unable to diagnose the remaining 30% failures because onset of damage ...

High-end weather simulation tools currently available focus on the visual aspects of weather effects or predication modeling and can rarely interact with objects or aircraft in a simulation. Though this capability can be offered by large flight simulators, their costs are most often prohibitive. Fortunately, new advancements in the modeling and simulation industry have made it possible to create a ...

Accurate Automation Corporation (AAC) proposes a unique Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launch and Recovery system for a U.S. Navy Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). AAC proposes an innovative concept for repeatedly stowing, launching, guiding, recovering, and restoring one or more UAVs without sacrificing operational tempo. While UAV’s have been used extensively in-theater to support the troops, USVs are ...

The need to bring ordinance on ‘targets of opportunity’ quickly before the target moves to another location is of paramount importance. A cruise missile that can travel at sustained hypersonic velocities could provide such a capability by reducing the time to target by a factor of 5 or more. Sustained flights at hypersonic velocities provide several technical challenges. Hypersonic control su ...

Dynamic Structures and Materials, LLC (DSM) proposes the development of a miniature piezo-actuated divert and attitude control system (DACS) for the Naval Electromagnetic (EM) gun projectile. DSM’s development team proposes to produce the requirements for the mini-DAC system, develop a safe-fuel formulation, perform endo- and exo-flight dynamic studies, and develop packaging concepts. DSM will ...

This proposal addresses the requirement to develop an ultra-compact, high-performance, passively Q-switched short pulse microchip laser that is appropriate for use in a military system environment. We plan to achieve the program goals through specific research paths and perform critical experiments that will demonstrate the effectiveness of these improvements in Phase II. In addition, to these des ...

Military personnel on the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) may be subjected to significant levels of shock and vibration loading in the course of a military maneuver. The shock and vibration loading can interfere with crew duties and cause fatigue and distraction. There exists a need for a compact device to reduce the vibration and shock loading that is transmitted through the seat suspensio ...

A comprehensive Air System PHM approach will be developed for avionics digital circuits. As a mission is flown, temperature and vibration data indicate the stresses imposed on the electronics. This technology translates global stresses onto individual circuit board components and even the materials that make up those components. Based on VEXTEC proprietary material degradation physics modeling com ...

The work proposed here seeks to integrate data from NSMS, strain gage data acquisition systems and analytical models so that the time required to perform product evaluation is reduced and accuracy of the result is improved. Experimental Design & Analysis Solutions, Inc. (EDAS, Inc.) will build upon it significant experience in holistic HCF test and evaluation, data acquisition, and data analysis ...