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The QED team’s design approach comprises a rapidly deployable breakwater, causeway and anchoring system. The study focuses on the systems integration of these elements with emphasis on delivery means and installation to meet the 48 hour readiness objective. This study builds on the QED team’s experience designing, fabricating, deploying and testing similar systems over the past fifteen years. ...

Develop a high power to weight, compact, heavy fuel MCC engine using advanced high strength materials. This new MCC engine design will also offer high durability and high efficiency with an extremely low acoustic and IR signature for use in future small UAVs. The overall objective of this Phase I development program is to develop a JP-5, JP-8 or DS2 MCC engine using advanced high strength to weigh ...

Northwest UAV Propulsion Systems proposes using our purpose built heavy fuel engine designed and built in the USA for small unmanned aerial systems in the tier 2 & 3 class. We will be adding a lightweight ceramic material set combined with FEA (Finite Element Analysis) and heavy fuel atomizer (IRAD Project) to create a lightweight engine for a SUAS or STUAS class UAVs. The Ceramic material set is ...

MNB Technologies presents a novel approach to integrating mission-specialized adaptive knowledge fusion front-end systems to their unique hardware accelerated real time synthetic holography visualization engine and projector. The result of this will be a portable distributed system that may be used to integrate disparate information into a cohesive volumetric perspective of the battlespace from se ...

The proposed work will investigate the feasibility of a market-based power allocation method for shipboard power systems. These systems will encompass more loads demanding more power in order to meet the U.S. Navy’s current and future missions. As power is a scarce resource with alternative uses, the allocation of power within a shipboard power system is posed as an economic problem. As such, PC ...

Nighttime bioluminescence poses a large naval tactical problem. Therefore a navigation aid is required for underwater vehicles (manned or un-manned) that will sense the platform-induced (e.g. an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, SEAL Delivery Vehicle, or diver) bioluminescence, water optical properties, and ambient light, and use the measured parameters as input to solve a simple radiative transfer alg ...

The objective of our Phase II work is to develop and demonstrate the Magnetic Underwater Mine (MAGNUM) confirmation sensor and associated integrated UUV sensor module. In the Phase I project, Sky Research and Geometrics explored the use of Micro-Fabricated Atomic Magnetometers (MFAM) technology to meet the Navy’s needs. The prospective MFAM sensor, data acquisition, and processing module have be ...

The primary objective of the proposed Phase II study is to implement a new high-performance cooling technology for thermal management of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio (GMR). Having successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of this cooling concept during the Phase I study, the proposed work will focus on determining all required cooling system hardware using an actual ...

Recent advances in free space optical (FSO) technologies promise a new way to provide energy efficient, high speed, and secure wireless communications. Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are now sufficiently mature that it is possible to transmit data at high bit rates reliably using simple energy efficient modulation schemes. Also, FSO and RF devices can operate in the same location ...

The lowered cost of maintenance, lowered weight, and reduced installation complexity of smart electric actuators continues to justify the transition from hydraulic actuation to EMAs/EHAs. This SBIR proposal will extend the advantages of EMA technology into high-temperature, high-vibration applications with a first commercialization target being the JSF F35 Lightning II aircraft platform. During th ...