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The performance of the JSF can be improved by reducing the weight of the propulsion system. The JSF is powered by either Pratt & Whitney’s (P&W) F135 engine or General Electric’s F136 engine. Both engines use a common exhaust system produced by P&W. One attractive approach to reducing the weight of the JSF propulsion system is to replace high density metal nozzle compo-nents with CMCs. In f ...

The phase II proposal is provided in two parts. The basic proposal is the transition of the RLW devices to produce a Fully Automated Bearing Residual Life Prognosis Wireless Sensor compatible with the DD(X) Total Ship Computing Environment Infrastructure (TSCEI). The option presented is a DD(X)-specific enhancement to accelerate this and three additional SBIR technologies. The accelerated effort t ...

The goal of this SBIR project is to develop and demonstrate lightweight, low cost, drive shaft concepts for use in high performance rotating engine drive systems, with specific focus on the STOVL life fan system. During the Phase I program, a proof-of-concept prototype tube was fabricated to establish manufacturing feasibility, verify weight estimates and support cost studies. The design concept ...

This Proposal addresses important problems within the realm of modeling of urban areas for visual simulation, including the modeling of external building geometry, the rapid capture of building appearances, and the modeling of underground structures. Modeling complex building geometry for detailed urban simulation and visualization is expensive and requires trained personnel. We will implement n ...

Active multistatic sonar systems have become the preferred solution for shallow water undersea warfare missions. Most airborne active multistatic systems operate in the low frequency range to provide increased range and reverberation resistance. Tactical follow up to large area search and target tracking are better accomplished by using higher frequencies, which provide high range resolution and s ...

We propose to use a gas fed vertical style sublimation reactor that can accommodate several different types of chemistries and be modified to a number of different approaches. The reactor is similar to the HTCVD reactor developed by Linköping University and Okmetic. The approach will be to initially try out different chemistries at fairly high temperatures where sublimation is a dominant process. ...

As the military undergoes significant changes including smaller, more deployable dispersed forces the need to find new methods to analyze and assess team behavior including SA has increased significantly. In this new modernized military, if warfighters are to function in a distributed fashion they will need high degree of shared understanding and SA to function effectively. Current methods of a ...

Rydal Research proposes to develop a low cost, high performance, shared memory multi-level secure data network capable of supporting data rates in the range of 10 Gbps per link. The network is based on a high-performance COTS networking protocol with appropriate extensions and enhancements to support multi-level security. The goal of the Phase II effort is to develop a complete set of building blo ...

We propose to develop an earth penetrator with improved shape for trajectory stability during high-speed penetration. Several promising penetrator shaping concepts have been identified in Phase I. Through further analysis, one or two of these will be selected for further development. Penetrator designs will be formulated and optimized, then tested through gun firings of scale-model penetrators int ...

This proposal describes an innovative approach for creating a battle-space data model; an approach that will allow military experts to directly compose the model rapidly and efficiently. Specifically, we propose to build on our Phase 1 effort that integrated CommandLink, an active forms technology, with an associative memory capable of learning about a data model by observing the interactions use ...