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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.

Incompatibility is a major problem in wireless communications, due to the proliferation of wireless networks based on different technologies that cannot interoperate with one another. The incompatibility of consumer, military, and local jurisdictional communication devices was never more evident to the public than during the crisis of 9/11. The problem calls for communications devices that are hi ...

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 ...

In Phase I of this SBIR effort, Lakota created a general model for a component-based display architecture and a prototype of this general model in the form of a set of USW displays executing within the framework. In Phase II, Lakota proposes to follow through with the groundwork laid down in Phase I by developing the Enterprise Display Infrastructure (EDI) a ‘pluggable’ display infrastructure ...

Crossfield proposes an innovative approach to re-engineer legacy ASIC and gate array devices based upon using a mechanical/plasma-etch (dry etch) and a novel 3D tomography process to extract transistor characterization and metal interconnect data. Exploiting the device performance improvements available in the latest generation of silicon technologies, Crossfield expects to generate an equivalent ...

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 ...

A major challenge facing the U.S. Navy’s Anti -Submarine Warfare (ASW) mission area is the ability to effectively detect, classify, localize and neutralize quiet modern submarines in shallow water. Current towed array sensors, including TB-23, TB-29A, TB-16 and MFTA, provide desired acoustic performance but are not optimal for deployment from an unmanned vehicle. Compatibility with these platfor ...