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This proposal responds to the need for a more capable velocity sensor for Naval Special Warfare undersea vehicles that will enable 3D bottom and water column tracking. Currently, the Advanced Seal Deployment System utilizes a Doppler Sonar capable of operations at altitudes of up to approximately 300 meters over the sea bed for bottom track mode. There is also a stated need to decrease weight, v ...

This program addresses the Special Operations need for a cost effective wind Lidar system enabling efficient delivery of psychological warfare material. Our approach involves the design, development and field demonstration of an all fiber transceiver allowing for the mapping of wind fields. The advantages of our approach include: • All Fiber based design resulting in a power efficient system, ...

Regenerative medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that will result in new engineered medical products. The introduction of a high-resolution, non-destructive imaging technique that is capable of penetrating deeply into the highly-scattering scaffold medium has the means to accelerate the development and commercial utilization of these novel materials. Multi-photon microscopy (MPM) is b ...

Open Tech will create an interactive multi-user collaboration product for immersive and desktop scientific visualization. This product will leverage our Virtual Reality Windowing Library to enable an easy to use collaboration interface that includes user lists, radars, maps, avatars, white boards, and virtual presentations. The product will also contain a software framework that enables developers ...

The SOF Ground Route Planner Phase I project is a feasible effort to start an effective program for fielding aground route planning application for SOF forces. The project provides operational and technicalrequirements definition, prototype development, and prototype validation. The SOF Ground Route Plannerintegrates work, time, and risk algorithm onto multiple mapping systems and DII/COE data sou ...

Tactical data communications for military ground operations require multi-band and multi-channel operations. The constraints imposed by electromagnetic and survivability considerations dictate that the communication antenna be as low profile as possible,without severely compromising the ability of the warfighter to communicate even when operating under marginal propagation conditions. In this eff ...

Present Naval Special Warfare (NSW) craft are generally powered by diesel engines, which are relatively large, heavy and complex with many moving parts. And, while gas turbine engines have been examined as a compact, high-power, low-maintenancealternative, they tend to be relatively noisy and discharge large volumes of hot exhaust. Both of these characteristics are less than desirable from a det ...

Today’s warfighter repeatedly relies on the effectiveness of battlefield computers and other processing devices to efficiently accomplish mission goals. In particular, the dismounted soldier is faced with the daunting challenge of carrying such a device on his/her person, without producing a detrimental affect on individual mobility or comfort. Although these kinds of body-worn processing syst ...

Crowd management is an important task for civilian, police, and military groups that can be very difficult on its own, and becomes even more difficult in hostile environments. The difficulty comes from the many levels of granularity that events can happen at. Making such a system automated adds further challenges, due to difficulties with modeling and sensors. Accurate large-scale crowd models are ...

Tactical scenarios are being combined with evolving multimedia display technologies and high performance simulators to enhance training opportunities throughout the military. To date, with the exception of the SDV-simulator, no high performance simulationtool has been developed to train Naval Special Warfare operators.This proposal demonstrates the feasibility of developing a SEAL Tactical Simula ...