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The trend over the last several years is fewer businesses supplying manufactured products. Thus, by supply and demand, the cost of military hardware has increased with less competition. Furthermore, amortized cost of the qualifying a new product becomes cost prohibited resulting in non-competitive bids compared to historical averages. DLAs Replenishment Parts Purchase or Borrow program supports re ...

The objective of the proposed project is to formulate, design and implement the Lethal Impact Maritime Analysis (LIMA) toolset. LIMA brings the latest modeling and simulation technology into vulnerability and lethality (V/L) assessment for maritime structures to serve US NAVY needs. LIMA comes with an intuitive graphical user interface enabled by fault-tree and stochastic analysis modules, a param ...

The objective of this SBIR is to develop a prototype T-SCAN algorithm to be hosted on WAMS to form and manage multiple simultaneous point-to-multipoint sessions over a transponded satellite for non-networking capable Wideband Anti-jam Modern Systems (WAMS) waveforms. To reduce integration and certification risks, the prototype T-SCAN algorithm is intended to be hosted on the General Purpose Proces ...

MicroLink Devices proposes the development of a 40W floating solar array and rechargeable battery system that can continuously provide 5W of power for sonobuoys. The solar sheet will be composed of flexible, highly efficient (>30% AM1.5), lightweight (>1000 W/kg) multijunction GaAs solar cells. It will be accompanied by a state of the art battery (>400 Whr/kg, lasting over 2000 cycles) that will s ...

The output of the traditional optics fibers produce a Gaussian-shaped output due to the internal mode structure. Moreover, the output from traditional optical fibers contains spatial non-uniformities that are undesirable for certain applications. Many advanced applications require a “flat-top” intensity distribution of the laser beam as it produces uniform illumination and minimizes speckle. T ...

The assets of the US Navy are under constant threat of attack from small fast moving boats, such as the Fast Attack Craft (FAC) and the Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC). These craft may be operated by forces from recognized adversaries such as Iran or North Korea, by “Rogue States” or by violent non-state actors whose ideology encourages violence against US interests. To counter this threat, t ...

In this proposal, a broadband laser system is explored which has the potential to deliver high power over most of the long wavelength infrared (LWIR) spectral range. The system is composed of multiple quantum cascade laser modules which are spectrally combined into a single output beam. In order to simplify system construction, the system is designed to operate with a small number of active elemen ...

Aircraft fuel tanks use explosion suppression foams to mitigate the explosion effects as part of the protection system. However, considering technical challenges in maintenance protocols and relatively high fuel displacement/retention volume percentages coming along with current material solutions, the target application segment requires lightweight and high-performance innovative explosion suppre ...

The primary objective of the proposed work is to develop a ruggedized connector for use with commercially available high-speed switches and network interface cards that is low cost, maintains high data rates, operates in harsh environments, and has high mean time between failures to be utilized by Next Generation Architecture (NGA). The topic description continues to define some of the key attribu ...

Cyberspace includes a wide range of physical networks, storage and computing devices, applications, and users with different roles and requirements. These can be grouped into three layers: Physical, Logical, and Cyber-persona layers. Securing and protecting such complex and dynamic cyberspace resources and services are grand challenges. This project aims at developing a multi-layer anomaly behavio ...