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To meet the U.S. Navy need for high-dynamic-range digitizers for lidar applications, a four-input channel 17-bit dynamic-range application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) will be developed. Each of the four high-bandwidth input channels will be configured in a fast-in/slow-out architecture, composed of a stacked 512-element switched capacitor array (SCA), capable of 2-ns time-slice sampling, an ...

The M197 Gatling gun is a useful and highly effective battlefield weapon used on a variety of rotary wing aircraft. Unfortunately, the heat and wear caused by its high rate of fire requires preventative maintenance procedures to ensure combat readiness. Lubricants have been implemented to reduce wear and inhibit corrosion on its steel components, but their application requires more frequent mainte ...

This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project develops the scale of lithium-ion direct recycling technologies applied to gain efficiencies in materials management from original manufacturing to end-of-life. The scrap materials are from Defense Logistics Agency manufacturing activities. A successful effort moves direct recycle TRL from 4 to 6, increases process throughput, qualifies mate ...

Oceanit proposes a Phase I project to develop and validate an adaptive approach to detect and react to external and embedded cybersecurity attacks at the application layer in order to secure and maintain maritime-based information communication operations involving autonomous submerged vehicles.

Intelligence will be embedded into the V-22 Osprey’s existing power distribution boxes to produce a compact and efficient load management system that reacts to common power source failure conditions by automatically shedding loads in priority. The system measures power quality directly from all power source inputs and reacts quickly enough to prevent power source failure or shutdown before it ha ...

Our innovative 3D Motion Analysis technology allows for fast and efficient screening of running technique in military personnel that has previously not been available to this scale. We propose providing education and training on our portable 3D Motion Analysis technology to military personnel to explore new ways to utilize this technology. The education and training will focus on ways to identify ...

The seeds of failures of Defense projects can often be traced back to poor quality requirements and a lack of portfolio level coherence between associated projects. Because projects have become so complex, 100% paper-based methods are no longer suitable for requirements management. In June 2018, the DoD released its Digital Engineering Strategy which calls on the services to “move the primar ...

ILLUSTRO is a hardware/software package which fuses Nalu’s single photon detection technology into SM’s cost-off-the-shelf (COTS) space qualified computing architectures. ILLUSTRO aims to detect lasing events, instantaneously, with a low SWaP detector architecture that can be easily integrated into large national assets and future small-sat USAF architectures. Such a capability would ...

USAF will spend $6B on contractor Adversary Air (ADAIR) in the next 10 years, and likely an equivalent amount on self-generated ADAIR for F-22 and F-35, which currently have no viable Red counterpart. By 2030, the total number USAF ADAIR sorties fall between 65,000 (minimum) and 150,000 (desired), which will overwhelm the enterprise, irrespective of cost. Estimates are that 60% of these sorties ar ...

Inflatables fill a growing need for rapidly-deployable structures with low stowage volumes. Navatek proposes to develop an inflatable system with a low stowage volume to demonstrate recovery of UUVs through a 21-inch torpedo tube. Using a combination of drop-stitch and traditional inflatable tubes, the UUV COLLAR (Compliant Open-ended Low-volume Launch and Recovery) system will secure a UUV firmly ...