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The United States Navy is currently developing Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) concepts and technologies in order to improve the readiness and availability of Department of Defense assets by maximizing efficiency and reducing the life-cycle maintenance costs through data-driven decisions. A secure CBM+ sensor node has the potential to reduce the number of machine overhauls, shorten the tim ...

The physics generating timing spurs in a high-speed, low-bit depth analog-to-digital converter will be modeled in a machine learning framework to enable both the prediction of spurs and adaptive removal using an enhancement neural network. The algorithms will be developed in software and optimized for low-latency operation in a digital (FPGA or similar) framework. High-speed implementation of ...

Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity test and evaluation (T&E) uses various cyber event environments throughout the development of a combat system to support fielding more secure, resilient, and cost-effective systems. Cyber ranges deploy cyber-attacks and achieve high-fidelity feedback on vulnerabilities present in the system without putting operational systems at risk; they support more rig ...

The Navy desires an Intelligent Additive Manufacturing (IAM) system for metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) that can incorporate AI to provide real-time adaptive monitoring and control of the LPBF process and produce defect-free parts while maintaining or reducing part build times. To provide this, our team will develop Open-IAM.  The concept will consist of a controllable open architecture LPBF ...

Energy and Security Group (ESG) and our partner Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will design a modeling and simulation (M&S) framework that integrates human performance modeling with high-fidelity systems modeling to explore the impacts of human operator variability in execution of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). This framework, TTPSim, can be used to develop and run simultaneous, eff ...

Current Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) technology is capable of quantum computing, however, its application is limited due to its large size, low-temperature refrigeration requirement, and high cost.  Quantum optical semiconductor-scale chip technology is promising but not commercially available yet due to the multiple challenges to overcome. Using quantum photonic technology ...

Ground vehicle underbody blast events pose a significant threat to warfighters; therefore, there is a need to develop energy attenuating (EA) seats to mitigate these injuries. Many of the current technologies were primarily designed for the 50th percentile male. To address this critical need, Luna Innovations will investigate how anthropometric variability and changes in posture affect injury, dev ...

Virtual EM is proposing a method to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency in full-wave CEM codes by using high-order curved elements. Virtual EM’s own commercial product VirAntenn™ will provide the CEM setting for both developing and implementing the new capability in Phase I and Phase II, respectively. Using multi-wavelength long cells with high-order basis forms ...

In this Phase I SBIR, Oceanit will develop a novel, powerful, adaptable cyber defense capability to support autonomous Air Force weapons systems.

In this Special AF program, NanoSonic shall explore our commercial product, HybridSil ICEPHOBIC nanocomposite combined with WashU’s Distillation Membranes as a Defense-Related Dual-Purpose technology for near-term military functional hybrids (AFOSR FOCUS AREA RTB2) and commercial water purification markets. NanoSonic has developed HybridSil ICEPHOBIC (HS IP) as an ice mitigating hybr ...