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Eight years of developing fiber placement technologies at Automated Dynamics Corporation (ADC) has resulted in robust manufacturing process for commercial and applications. In-situ consolidation technologies have been adapted for sporting good products, down hole piping, and industrial rolls and shafts. High performance thermoplastics such as PEEK, Nylon and PPS have been the candidate mat ...

A novel coating technology is proposed for increased wear and improved li fe and reliability of commutator bars in electrical sliding devices found in manned and unmanned underwater vehlilles. Diamond-Like Nanocomposite (DLN) coatings represent a famil Of thiWrfilms that bxhibit unique combinations of technologically interesting properties including high adhesion to virtually any substrate (inclu ...

Thermal batteries based on Lithium-Metal Sulfide (LiMS) technology have great potential for meeting the needs of the Navy for upsocming applications in Unmanned, Underwater Vehicles (UUV). Generally, this battery technology provides for the power and energy densities required by UUV applications. Furthermore, variations on this technology have been used for many years in Navy applications su ...

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Standard U.S. Navy fiber optic assemblies require that the fiber be bonded to the connector using an adhesive that is labor intensive and heat controlled (MIL-A-24792). Advanced Material Systems (AMS) proposes a study that could solve this problem through the development of an adhesive system that would cure at room temperature in less that 3 minutes and yet meet all of the in-service req ...

The US navy reuires a highly visible signal cartridge to be used with practive bombs for night training operations that will not initiate bomb range fires or produce other environmental hazards such as chemical toxicity. The US Navy wishes to replace the current technology of the MK4MOD3 High Visibility Signal Cartridge which uses red phosphorus to produce smoke and flame as the visible signal. ...

A fundamental problem in automatic target recognition (ATR) is the overwhelming amount of sensor data which must be processed. Target features are localized within the field-of-view (FOV) of the imaging sensor. Uniformly sampling within the FOV is thuus inappropriate, regions with little or no relevance to the task are samples at the same resolution as key features, occupying valuable signal bandw ...

Target drone aircraft cannot realistically simulate the target signature of a variety of airborne targets. To increase the effectiveness of target drone aircraft, the opportunity exists to augment the radar signature in order to provide an enhanced target return with user defined characteristics. The target effects of specific interest are: Glint, Radar Cross Section (RCS), Scintillation, Jet En ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program will investigate the feasibility of a hybrid approach for real-time target recognition and tracking. Real-time target detection/recognition and tracking are essential for a large number of defense and commercial applications. Particlarly for applications that must be performed in rapidly changing enviroments such as surveillance, automat ...

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