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ATA Engineering, Inc., (ATA) developed and demonstrated a prototype SSCS for performing ground-based calibration of structural health sensors installed within the wings and horizontal/vertical tails of the F/A-18 aircraft. An automated user interface and...

Current dive helmet communications systems are built on dated technology and can produce undesirable levels of noise in the helmet and at topside stations from several sources. Additionally, speech intelligibility is reduced in many situations putting divers at further risk. In this Phase II effort, Oceanit will develop and test prototype technologies for dive communications systems initially demo ...

Ziva proposes to develop and demonstrate a novel and powerful approach called Military Distributed Array Reach-back using Time Reversal (m-DART) which enables extension of communication range for both TX and RX in a scaled down A2/AD scenario on a small size, weight, and power (SWaP) distributed unmanned aerial system (UAS). The overall objective of m-DART Phase II/Option is to develop and demonst ...

UHAC has demonstrated the capability to operate in water, mud, sand, and over rough terrain. The CACs are the foundation of the concept and those used on the technology demonstrator vehicles possessed the necessary functionality, but lacked the durability required for military vehicles. Under this proposal CACs with the necessary durability will be developed and tested. Also addressed will be the ...

This program is developing a multiple beam electron gun and magnetic focusing systems for a Ka-Band traveling wave tube (TWT) being developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). If successful, the program will improve the power density of the RF source more than a factor of five over existing technology. The electron gun will generate a 2 X 6 or 2 X 8 array of electron beams that will transfer ...

Areté will deliver a rugged, compact, and efficient high-power ultraviolet (UV) sources which will have critical benefits for naval air platforms. The proposed laser will be capable of operating in 320 – 355 nm spectral region, achieve > 5W of optical power with excellent beam-quality (M2 < 2), and achieve extremely-low SWaP, including > 10% wall-plug efficiency. Our approach adds key innovatio ...

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 ...

SA Photonics’ Wideband Agile Threat Sensor (WATS) addresses the Navy’s need for an affordable and compact High-Power Radio Frequency / High-Power Microwave (HPRF/HPM) attack warning technology that detects, characterizes and precisely geo-locates HPRF threats while being fully immune to HPRFs. WATS consists of multiple completely passive HPM probes connected by fiber optic cables to an electro ...

A wireless implant capable of communication with large populations of neurons will be developed for manufacturing and production in this project. The product will have effective wireless data rates significantly higher than state of the art wireless neural interfaces. This will improve wireless communication with neurons, and is a promising step towards transformative treatments: sight, sound, sme ...

The Long Range Navigation (LORAN) system was a proven and stable navigation aid until it was abandoned because of the success of the Global Positioning System (GPS). However, while being highly successful, GPS has created a single point of failure for many military and civilian applications requiring precise time and position. Therefore, it is now clear that a backup to GPS is required and the enh ...