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The aerospace industry commonly uses cad-plated components in aircraft structures, engines, propellers and landing gear systems in both high and low strength steels. Components manufactured from these alloys require sacrificial protective coatings due to their corrosive environments. Cadmium has traditionally been the coating of choice for threaded components and fasteners due to its many desirabl ...

Areté Associates, with critical technical support from QinetiQ North America (QNA) proposes development and demonstration of a full-duplex, underwater acoustic communications network, which includes an air/sea communications interface solution. QNA’s full-duplex DOLPHIN™ acoustic modem technology will be integrated with Areté’s, Expendable Data Exfiltration (EDEX) technology to create a fu ...

Oceanit proposes to develop a miniature oriented fluxgate magnetometer similar to the AN/ASQ-10 for use across multiple operational platforms with focus on unmanned vehicles in a maritime environment.

Innoflight will develop a high performance software-defined compact radio (SCR) with Ka and X dual band downlink capability and S Band uplink capability. The Ka / X SCR will support 300 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplinks rates using advanced spectrally efficient waveforms. It will offer interoperability with standard government and commercial ground stations such as the Army RGT (Remote Ground Termi ...

This proposal presents a new way of testing airborne radar systems that employ adaptive signal processing techniques for ground clutter mitigation. The proposed approach is based on ISL’s Real-time Electromagnetic Environment Simulator RTEMES(TM) technology that presents a radar system with a highly realistic virtual clutter environment. The new approach provides highly robust testing of adaptiv ...

As submarine threats from adversary countries continue to rise, the U.S. Navy must maintain and expand its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Warfighter readiness is the linchpin of the Navy’s ASW strategy, but the complexity of the ASW domain necessitates time-consuming training, and practical experiences to transfer those skills to the operational environment. Innovative training appro ...

In Naval surface electronic warfare (EW), visual displays form critical bridges between warfighters and the complex operational radio-frequency (RF) spectrum they must monitor and interpret. Surface EW operators and supervisors must monitor and interact with multiple, stove-piped display systems in order to perform their work. Further, the visual displays they employ are not designed to account fo ...

To address the Navy’s need for cross-domain transition goggles with an integrated, illuminated display, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes, in Phase II, to advance the development of the new Transition Wide-Angle Goggles with Integrated Illuminated Display (TWIGIID), which were proven feasible in Phase I for use by the Navy’s special operations skydivers and underwater divers. The novel ...

Triton Systems will apply our material design, medical systems and wearables expertise to develop a low cost in-flight bladder relief system for both male and female pilots. The bladder relief system allows the user to safely urinate in-flight without fear of leaks or resulting discomfort. The Triton bladder relief system will significantly increase pilot effectiveness with minimal cost.

The objective of the present proposal is to develop and apply accurate, robust and cost-effective methodologies for the prediction of the interior nozzle flow, seamlessly coupled with high-fidelity large eddy simulation (LES) for the prediction of the jet plume and radiated noise. Based on the Phase I results, the meshing strategy and the wall modeling inside the nozzle were identified as the two ...