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The goal of this Phase I STTR proposal is to quantify the necessary hardware and processing requirements to enable a ship-based radar system to automatically detect and track whales on the ocean surface at distances of 5 kilometers or more for the purposeof collision avoidance. Long standoff detection and tracking is crucial to collision avoidance since large ships, such as commercial oil tankers, ...

Cortana Corporation, ARL/PSU, and NAVATEK, propose to address the feasibility of performing a large-scale, seaborne demonstration of microbubble drag reduction (MBDR). A Cortana-led team has successfully demonstrated that a well-designed ejector and acarefully selected ejectant can increase the effectiveness of polymer ejection by a factor of two and reduce historical additive expenditure rates b ...

Navy regulation OPNAVINST 5090.1B requirs that impact of Navy excerise be determined and appropriate action be taken to mitigate the impact on the marine mammals. Fulcrum proposes to use overhead assests to detect and localize marine mammals.Knowledge ofmarine mammal population location will eliminate the impact on endagened species.

Inorganic/organic (hybrid) nanoreinforcements based upon Nanostructured Chemicals and POSS-modified nano/macrofillers offer alternate mechanisms to fire retarding conventional hydrocarbon-based polymers. The two primary mechanisms provided bynanoreinforcements are (i) reduced volatilization of fuel (organic monomer/polymer) and (ii) the formation of oxidatively stable, nonpermeable surface chars ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a halogen free nanocomposite vinyl ester system that will provide low flammability composites. The nanocomposite system proposed will be based on commercially available vinyl ester resinsand thus should not result in a significant increase to raw material costs. Layered silicate based nanocomposites are a relatively new class of ...

SAILOR 21: A Research Vision to Attract, Retain, and Utilize the 21st Century Sailor!

SAILOR 21: A Research Vision to Attract, Retain, and Utilize the 21st Century Sailor!

The processing software to support Navy and Marine Corps littoral battlespace operations has not kept pace with advances in sensor and communications hardware. Information Extraction and Transport, Inc. and Oregon State University propose a noveldistributed processing approach to sensor fusion and situation assessment called Collaborating Autonomous Distributed Sensors (CADS). CADS will yield: 1) ...

The objective of this program is to develop and make ready for commercial production a novel pump design utilizing piezoelectric pumping elements combined with fast acting non mechanical active valves and a miniature digital controller. The piezoelectricactuator is an available building block that has a proven track record, surviving 3x109 cycles in diesel fuel injectors. Available conventional va ...

We shall use recently developed numerical technology to compute detonation phenomena accurately,deal with mixed phase flow, high strain rate solid mechanics and complex geometry. These new techniques, developed largely by the personnel involved, includethe level set method, ghost fluid method, ENO and WENO shock capturing schemes, solid fluid interaction methodology and the fast closest point tran ...