Award Data

The Marine Corps is seeking a lightweight, advanced track for upgrading the Amphibious Assault Vehicle. The challenge is to use material technology to engineer a system capable of not only reducing weight but also reducing noise and vibration and lowering the cost of production and lifecycle maintenance. Although continuous, non-pinned, rubber track has found uses in agriculture and lower-performa ...

In this SBIR program, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) will develop infrared (IR) antireflection (AR) coatings, which can be applied conformally to the interior of ogive shaped missile domes. SMI will develop the coating materials, the coating process, and the commercial coating equipment for implementation in Phase III. The proposed coatings will provide optimum antireflection properti ...

A noninvasive wearable sensor to accurately measure and inform the hydration of naval aviators in the flight environment is proposed. It uses multifrequency bio-electric impedance analysis to accurately measure skin hydration and Total Body Water content and provide feedback to the user in real time. The proposed wrist-worn band is self-contained, durable, suitable for an extreme range of environm ...

Airborne ASW systems and sonobuoys operate in selected portions of the acoustic spectrum. Passive and active sensors not only contend with friendly forces operating in-band but must contend with other non-cooperative signals that degrade sensor performance including environmental interference, unintended out of band transmissions from our own sensors, and commercial interference from other sources ...

To reduce the false positive and false negative detection and identification of submarines, Nokomis proposes to build an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm suite, in conjunction with its ultra-sensitive signal detection capability, to minimize the in-band interferences on existing airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) systems.To minimize the background noise and interference, the signal source ...

There is a need for a condition based management system to continuously monitor aging and new naval systems. A fiber optic (FO) system is uniquely positioned to provide accurate, non-invasive, and continuous real-time assessment of parameters such as temperature, load, vibration, impact events, and acoustic emissions. In addition, new power-over-fiber methods have been identified to generate contr ...

We propose a novel and secure solution for an advanced battlefield communication system. The proposed headset communication system provides improved communication, localization, and auditory preservation for combat and training scenarios. The system leverages advanced digital signal processing technologies developed at our company. During Phase I, we will demonstrate a real headset prototype with ...

High voltage, high efficiency current conducting switches are needed for future high power naval applications. Current commercial Si devices do not meet this need. High quality thick film GaN is a promising alternative with the theoretical capability of providing the needed performance; however, it is presently very difficult to produce such thick films reasonably in existing GaN film growth tools ...

OPT proposes to develop an innovative optical-mooring (OM) system for small communications buoys that uses a variable-buoyancy cable over-sheath that shapes the OM cable to provide compliance.

Manada Technology proposes to enhance Navy call center helpdesks by developing and deploying the Call Center Cognitive Cloud (4-C): a comprehensive, automation-focused platform that uses AI and big data methods to facilitate support request resolution. 4-C will reduce helpdesk labor demands and improve the customer experience by automatically providing customers and service desk agents with the in ...