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Leveraging our extensive experience in Hardware-in-the-loop, Signal Injection, and All Digital Simulations, the Torch Team proposes developing an innovative approach for assessing and estimating the target and background simulation scene fidelity requirements of smart munitions. The Torch Team will define metrics and an analysis processes which aim to match simulation fidelity requirements with se ...

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) family of standards has made significant strides in providing interoperability and reuse of military avionics software across a common development platform. Significant and troublesome incompatibilities can remain between implementations even with standards conformance. These incompatibilities can arise from a variety of sources and can be subtle a ...

The increased use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to meet diverse Navy mission requirements has been accompanied by mounting safety concerns. Mishap rates are orders of magnitude higher during unmanned versus manned flight. Two significant human causal factors contributing to UAS mishaps are channelized attention and fatigue. Channelized attention refers to allocating attention to a channel of in ...

Phelps2020 proposes a low SWaP solution, ARRIS, to the improvement of the range and resolution of the MX-15 turret so they equal or exceed the capabilities of the MX-20 turret. We chose to keep the MX-15 turret as is and append to it a low SWaP accelerated processor that performs real-time FMV enhancement. A multi-layer software application addresses illumination, weather, and environmental limita ...

Innovative solutions are sought to reduce cost, lead-time and improve capability of hot gasmanagement components in the post boost control system (PBCS) of the U.S. Navys Trident IID-5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM). Current PBCS components are based on refractory metals ofC103, Ta10W and TZM, with oxidation protective silicide coatings. At low oxygen pressure andhigh temperatures, gaseous species ...

Technical Abstract (Limit to 200 words with no classified or proprietary information).The proposed Phase II project focuses on the development and demonstration of a re-configurable, real-time portable infrared hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system. The envisioned sensor will provide users with significantly enhanced, multi-mission oriented capabilities.The goal of the project is to enable the detect ...

It has recently been mathematically proven that optimal communication systems necessarily have chaotic waveforms.Perhaps surprisingly, any communication system that utilizes a simple linear matched filter to achieve optimal detection of a signal, received by way of a noisy channel, must transmit a chaotic waveform.Using the concept of “exactly-solvable” chaos, communication systems can be buil ...

The US Army has the requirement for a vehicle-mounted and/or man-portable Low Frequency Currents Injected in the Ground (LFCIG) technology that can detect, image and reliably pre-detonate, or otherwise render unusable buried Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). This LFCIG technology has been successfully developed and tested during Phase II SBIR effort. During the subsequent Phase II effort GRA wi ...

This effort will demonstrate the optimal sensor architecture for the Apache that provides improved target-to-background contrast using innovative polarimetric sensors coupled with image processing algorithms. As the battlefield becomes more complex and the operator is required to perform an increasing number of challenging tasks, sensor technologies that complement and enhance operational requirem ...

There is an unmet demand for ultra-low-power, ultra-compact and low-cost radios to address emerging sensing and communication needs for military and commercial applications such as IoT/IoE. To overcome the limitations in existing bulky and power hungry radios, we propose a disruptive solution by integration of a nano-scaled THz transceiver, on-chip antenna, and energy harvesting circuits in a form ...