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The proposed effort, in response to Office of Naval Research STTR Topic N03-T020, is to develop a prototype affordable visible/near-infrared missile warning sensor (AMWS), which uses conventional silicon based CCD technology as a detector. This sensor would ultimately form part of a Directed Infrared Counter-Measure (DIRCM) system designed to protect naval aircraft from anti-aircraft missiles. T ...

The Navy and other government-sponsored agencies use the P-3 aircraft. Due to the diverse missions and limited number of P-3 aircraft, the most economical and expeditious way to enhance operations and assure crew safety would be to incorporate low-cost expendable tactical unmanned air vehicles (UAV's). If UAVs were incorporated into each P-3, a load-out of sonobuoy launched UAV's with interchange ...

The Navy desires to equip P-3s and similar future aircraft with UAVs that can be launched from a standard A-size sonobouy tube and return real-time information including video images from remote locations for further analysis and action. Lite Machines has developed an electric-powered rotary-wing UAV having a cylindrical body and a counter-rotating, coaxial, rotor system, that fits within these ti ...

SA Photonics has developed a new class of digital night vision head mounted displays, which represent a breakthrough in digital night vision with their low-profile digital sensors and high resolution, wide field of view displays. For the first time in a head mounted display (HMD), night vision imagery can be digitally enhanced and recorded. The purpose of the current STTR project is to develop a ...

ABSTRACT: Physical Sciences Inc. and Tufts University propose to apply innovative, ground-breaking RF microplasma technology to the development of devices to generate ozone and other energetic species for a variety of commercial, military, and research applications. The proposed work follows from our successful Phase I effort, which achieved the first implementation of a prototype single-board l ...

The proposed Phase II GhostSwimmer program is intended to not only create an advanced and improved vehicle, but to prove that biomimetic technology, specifically GhostSwimmer, is a viable and often optimal option for Navy missions. The major goals of Phase II are: prove and characterize platform maneuverability, efficiency, and stealth; develop manufacturability and affordability; define the role ...

The Phase II base period of this project will focus on developing a hardened version of an externally mounted PVDF wire sensor measurement system and experimentally demonstrating and validating its use for determining internal pressure levels for realistic piping systems. A closed circuit piping test rig will be designed and fabricated at Virginia Tech using typical piping components including a p ...

The current practice in the maintenance of aviation batteries is to replace batteries on a scheduled maintenance cycle. It is estimated that some batteries have a useful life of six years yet batteries are replaced after they have been in service for three years or less, resulting in unnecessary expense. Conversely, batteries that have reduced capacity and need replacing are overlooked, posing a t ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase II project continues the successful work initiated under our Phase 1 program to develop a novel low temperature processing technology for the fabrication of low resistance ohmic source-drain contacts for high performance, nanowire transistors on low-temperature plastic substrates. In Phase I, we developed the instrument design, setup and init ...

While a significant research has been conducted examining the transfer of training from VEs. Currently fidelity requirements are determined by performance measurements and subjective evaluations. It is often difficult to identify the specific design components that directly relate to transfer of training improvements. Furthermore, this method of design focuses on trial and error, and is therefor ...