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This proposed Phase 2 project will develop a prototype version of a Controller for Heterogeneous Sensor Systems (CHESS) to provide network-centric sensor control for multi-INT geolocation applications. CHESS will use an XML-based control language to coordinate activities among COMINT, ELINT, and IMINT sensors.

Among the many autonomous guidance and control challenges facing DoD and industry today is the safe, reliable shipboard recovery of fixed wing UAVs. Leveraging our autonomous landing research conducted for the Air Force Research Laboratory and NAVSEA, Geneva Aerospace proposes an autonomous shipboard recovery solution using a hybrid control system structure that combines trajectory synthesis guida ...

Rotary-wing aircraft use transmission systems to transfer power from the engines to the rotor system. These transmissions employ lightweight high strength metals to reduce overall aircraft weight. The Navy and the helicopter industry would like to further decrease aircraft weight, as an increase in performance can be achieved for every pound of weight reduction. Composites offer advantages over ...

Develop a payload for use by Navy/Joint/Coalition tactical manned/unmanned aircraft and provide an offensive Information Operations (IO) Military Deception (MILDEC) capability. It will also contribute to satisfying the Sea Strike fleet requirements for IO targeting and Time Sensitive Targeting and the Sea Shield requirement of force protection for reconnaissance/ tactical aircraft against enemy a ...

The U.S. Navy provides urban combat training to troops, mainly Marines and Seals.. This training consists primarily of basic and close quarters battle (CQB) marksmanship and shoot/don''''t shoot skills in simulators using virtual environments using simulated weapons. Live fire CQB training exercises are typically conducted in "shoot houses." Although the live fire shoothouses are effective in inst ...

The need exists for a technology that creates an "information-centric" security architecture that augments the current "network-centric" security posture moving protection to what is really important, the INFORMATION. The purpose of this project is to: (1) develop a prototype that will achieve persistent role-based access control of an information object resident on a LAN within a protected env ...

While a significant research has been conducted examining the transfer of training from VEs. Currently fidelity requirements are determined by performance measurements and subjective evaluations. It is often difficult to identify the specific design components that directly relate to transfer of training improvements. Furthermore, this method of design focuses on trial and error, and is therefor ...

In Phase I Robust Towed Array Beamforming (RTAB) work, Applied Hydro-Acoustics Research, Inc. (AHA) developed and tested several candidate algorithms, including a data-adaptive "Hole-Filling" algorithm, that recover losses of acoustic performance resulting from acoustic channels failures. With SURTASS TwinLine-R sea-test data we have shown a 2 to 3 dB improvement in quiet beam levels by "hole-fill ...

The objective of this research is to develop alternatives for a total planning system solution for use of environmental sensor data for the tactical ASW warfighter. This software will be used for pre-flight planning to evaluate alternatives and develop effective tactical search plans based on available environmental data and threat data, to provide recommendations for additional insitu environm ...

This Navy SBIR Phase II program looks at the updating (both structural and electronics) of the current Controlled Towed Vehicle (CTV) and the fabrication of a new mount/enclosure that will allow for the mounting of the CTV system on a standard military style wing plyon. The vehicle is primarily for use in atmospheric research, specifically the surface flow over the ocean. Towed behind a research a ...