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Due to their high specific strength and light weight properties, polymer matrix composites (PMCs) are increasingly used in a wide variety of military and civilian aircrafts. The mechanical strength of PMCs can be dramatically compromised when such materials are exposed to various heat sources during operation and maintenance. It has been shown that PMCs can lose up to 80% of their mechanical stren ...

The Quantum Engineering Design, Inc. (QED) ‘Mission Module Handling Device’ (MMHD) is designed to meet the Navy’s requirements of minimizing the deck point loading while lifting and omni-directionally maneuvering ISO containers and ‘Twenty foot Equivalent Units’ (TEUs) aboard both the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) ‘Freedom’ and ‘Independence’ class of vessel. Special attention is pa ...

Galois will build a practical, efficient, modular, deductive code verifier and verification methodology for multithread C11 software. The verifier will take code written to the C11 standard, suitably annotated with function contracts, assertions, program/data invariants, ghost data/code, and any platform-specific assumptions beyond those guaranteed by the standard, and will prove that the code mee ...

Training systems and programs can be made more efficient and effective by understanding how knowledge of one domain affects a learner's ability to acquire skills in another. This Phase I STTR will result in a novel method for modeling this transfer process and predicting when transfer takes place. Underlying this method is a machine learning algorithm that actively solicits input from Subject Matt ...

A breakthrough, scalable, high-volume process for manufacturing known-quality low-loss, high-index, and high-wave characteristic impedance magnetic powders with particular electromagnetic characteristics and additive manufacturing (AM) processes will be developed, which allow for fabrication of functional materials with 3D-graded electromagnetic properties. The materials and processes will be opti ...

Electronically steered antenna arrays capable of forming multiple beams enable tracking and concurrent sensing of multiple, spatially diverse targets, thus providing significant advantage over dish antennas that have fixed, narrow beam patterns. To address the needs of the DoD, such antenna arrays must demonstrate high gain, low noise figure, and ultra-wideband operation. We have identified the an ...

Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00014-11-C-0332Expansion of the Advanced Breakwater and Causeway Ultramarine System (ABACUS) research and development work accomplished under the Phase II Basic and Options 1 & 2 programs to full scale prototype systems and large scale demonstration models for both Seabasing and ship-to-shore logistics support operations. The ABACUS fam ...

Typical Avionics Networks Requirements include; Many Different I/O Types,- RF, Analog, Digital, Discrete & Timing Strobes,- EMI Problems in Mixed Signal Environment, Many Different Network Media / Connectors Coaxial, TSP, Copper Cable, F/O, Backplane Traces/Vias, Many High Bandwidth/High Frequency Channels Avionics Modules are Connector Bound, Still Desire 2-Level Line-Replaceable Modules, Sensors ...

Sea mines are a serious threat to U.S. strategic interests in key regions of the world. Increasingly sophisticated, relatively inexpensive, and widely proliferated sea mines present difficult challenges for the Navy to guarantee access to critical regions. Airborne LIDAR systems counter these asymmetric threats, but these early LIDAR sensor systems have availability, cost, reliably, and performanc ...

A multi-scale/multi-physics software will be developed to predict manufacturing-induced defects due to materials, parts, tools and processes. Potential defects include voids, ply waviness, delaminations, fiber wrinkling, resin starvation/rich areas, and distortion/warpage caused from tool-part interaction. .Analytical tools will be integrated into a commercial available finite element design and a ...