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Modern real-time systems have become evolved to complex systems comprised of an complex orchestra of distributed applications. Access to data from members of dissimilar and distributed applications is difficult but required to understand state, manage, and dynamically adapt. These modern systems expand capabilities but add burden to operate, maintain, and analyzecounter to the need to reduce costs ...

MANEUVER is a focused, applied research effort that combines cutting edge biological and engineering techniques to provide a basis for advanced hydrodynamic control surfaces design for unsteady conditions and includes quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the technology as related to Navy Submarines, UUVs, and surface vessels. Empirical testing on a free-swimming vehicle is necessary for maki ...

GVD Corporation (GVD) proposes to develop low-cost, conformal, board-level environmental coatings for phased array radar T/R module boards. These boards must survive harsh environmental conditions for long periods, such as humidity, bias, temperature cycling, and ionic contamination. Such conditions can cause delamination and migration of the boards metallic interconnects. Water absorption by the ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to design, fabricate, and deliver two fully operational prototype total field scalar magnetometers with size, weight, and power specifications consistent with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) applications. The Phase II development program will extend the successful Phase I laboratory proof of concept to combine optical pumping of alkali atoms with sensitive absorp ...

A boats coxswain is adept at analyzing the wave environment, adjusting the crafts propulsion system and control surfaces to mitigate its motions and reduce the chance of capsizing. There is a significant predictive component in the coxswains control decisions. Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) lack the benefit of a highly trained coxswain reading and predicting oncoming waves - existing autonomous ...

The goal of the Navy Linear Induction Motor (LIM) launcher is to demonstrate the launching of projectiles to high speeds via an electromagnetic induction process. One program objective is to achieve launch velocities of 1000 m/s in gun lengths up to 10 m, with projectiles of density of 4 to 5 gm/cc and weights from 100gm to 1 kg. In Phase I of this effort, DTI developed solid state power modules f ...

The Naval Air Command performs a wide variety of sophisticated and time-consuming calculations in the service of repairing fighter jets and other high-end equipment. These calculations are developed by specialists at some expense and time. This SBIR concerns an effort to extract more value from the intellectual capital contained in these calculations, deploy them to a broader spectrum of users, an ...

Delcross proposes to systematically validate the Savant and Savant-Hybrid ray tracing solvers for a wide variety of installed antenna configurations, including far-field patterns, near-field distributions, and antenna-to-antenna coupling. Reference benchmarks will be developed from full-wave solvers, measurements, and analytic solutions. When shortcomings in existing methods/algorithms are identif ...

Self-biased ferrite circulator and isolator devices have previously been demonstrated and discussed in the literature. While operation without biasing magnets was verified, all the prototypes constructed thus far exhibited relatively high loss and poor isolation, which made them unsuitable for practical applications. Furthermore, due to the strong internal magnetic field in the ferrite materials u ...

OAE has proved to be an important measurement for hearing conservation programs. OAEs are sounds made by healthy inner ears in response to acoustic stimulation and are measured in the ear canal with a miniature microphone. One impediment to OAE testing on a large scale, such as in military hearing conservation programs, is the lack of a high-quality, reliable ear-probes which house the miniature m ...