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Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00039-12-C-0082. This contract involves the development of an underwater vehicle that can reliably and autonomously interconnect power and data cables to undersea nodes after they have been deployed. The Auto-Docking Autonomous Burial Vehicle (AD-ABV) is a cable-connecting adaptation of Makai’s proven ABV, which has been successfully ...

Systems that operate in constrained environments depend on the acoustics in several ways. Harbor defense systems detect intruders (peopleand/or vessels) by either listening for their noises (passively) or by pinging on them and detecting their echoes (actively). Furthermore, suchsystems may also form the equivalent of an underwater cell phone network using sound to carry the information. The acous ...

Areté and the Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Lab at the University of Arizona (UA) will complete the development of an interactive scenario building tool to generate realistic simulation content in real-time for use in training simulators for periscope operators.  Areté calls this tool RealSim.  The novel capability is created by combining the latest advances in generative ...

High power generation at millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequencies is expensive and the concurrent need for wide bandwidths at these frequencies creates an extremely challenging problem. Currently the most stringent requirements for mm-wave power and bandwidth can only be practically met by vacuum electronics (VE) technology. At present, vacuum amplifiers with the required performance are prohibitivel ...

Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc. (VPE), in collaboration with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), proposes to develop and quantitatively verify a large scale production process for scandate tungsten nanocomposite powder to be used in high current density and long life cathodes during the Phase II effort. The plan for implementation of the large scale production process at VPE with powd ...

In Phase II, the machine learning (ML) model update strategies that were developed as part of Phase I efforts will be refined for different use-case scenarios. This includes developing and validating mathematical models on both the standard image/video datasets and the provided representative periscope imagery data. A system prototype will then be developed to enable timely vessel detection, ident ...

The objectives of the proposed Phase II program are to design, fabricate, test, and deliver a 5 kW CW, S-Band magnetron capable of fast tuning across =5 MHz with a data transmission rate of 2 Mb/sec using simple frequency shift keying, and with minimum size, power and weight. Frequency and phase control of the magnetron will be accomplished using an array of varactors controlled by feedback loop c ...

The capability to model large-scale problems in electromagnetics (problem sizes extending to thousands of wavelengths) using physics-based full wave solvers that employ high-fidelity geometric models and high- order accurate numerical algorithms is a critical technology for several aspects of the DoD warfighter mission.  In particular, a robust and computationally efficient computational electrom ...

To support Navy Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training for surface fleets during periods of long transit, the Navy would like to implement an alternative communication path that can link shore-based trainers and simulation capabilities with trainers and training systems afloat. To support full spectrum training during the training events, there is a desire to selectively turn off communica ...

In this Phase II STTR effort, nGimat will partner with the University of Kentucky (UK) and 3M/Ceradyne to continue development of W-scandate cathode composite materials. Compared to conventional M-type cathodes, these composite scandate nanomaterials will enable longer cathode lifetime by lowering the required operating temperature. nGimat is an established and successful powder manufacturing comp ...