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During warfare, strikes made with surgical precision by Special Operations Forces reduce collateral damage and loss of life among non-combatants and have become the expectation of our war-fighters. Such strikes, however, require the ability to survey the target area in a timely fashion and guide munitions accurately. High altitude photographs taken by satellites and orbiting aircraft often lack ...

The objective of this proposal is to design and develop an innovative smoke/obscurant system that can be used to provide smoke from either an individual deployment, hand-held 40mm or 60mm grenade, or a vehicle mounted area grenade projector that uses the same grenade and will provide sufficient obscurant protection to conceal a team or vehicles.This SBIR requests that a single smoke/obscurant gren ...

Since the inception of windscreens on aircraft, the effects of erosion on the transparent materials utilized for this application has been problematic. With the development of faster aircraft, Night Vision Goggles and various sensors which utilize electromagnetic waves in the visible and IR ranges this problem has been intensified. The team at United Protective Technologies, propose to provide dat ...