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The project objective is to greatly reduce the cost of monitoring soil water content in highly-resolved vertical profile to promote increased adoption of more efficient water management tools. Cost is the most significant barrier to adoption of sophisticated data-driven irrigation management in permanent agriculture. Highly-resolved vertical soil water profiles are needed to learn soil-specific hy ...

Heads Up Displays (HUD) are still lacking the operation capabilities to meet the needs of training and tactical operation. The available displays lack daytime brightness, are limited by a small field of view, not ruggedized, and do not meet the SWaP needs of an untethered head or helmet worn display for the Army. Creative Microsystems Corp (CMC) will identify a development path and incorporate the ...

The United States Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response (MESR) program requires a solution that significantly simplifies the use and operation of miniature ROVs with manipulators in subsea Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations.  The optimal solution will provide coupled control of the ROV and manipulator tool such that the operator will interface with a single unified system in ...

The objective of this project is to provide a platform independent plug-in solution to operate an expeditionary-class ROV from safe standoff distances for the purposes of accomplishing sortie objectives related to locating, identifying, and mitigating subsea threats. The long-range standoff system will support the Next Generation EOD Underwater Response Vehicle as an optional add-on component and ...

The Navy requires affordable and robust cryogenic cooling solutions for use in High Temperature Superconducting magnet technology. While Stirling refrigerators are commonly used in the cryogenics industry, they do not scale well to large capacities and inherently exhibit significant vibration due to their piston-based operation. Therefore, Concepts NREC (CN) proposes to develop a reverse-Brayton c ...

The Navy requires a long-range standoff solution for Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) command and control that allows EOD Technicians to operate existing and future maritime expeditionary robots from a safe separation distance. The ideal system will provide the situational awareness and command and control required to effectively and efficiently execute the objectives of subsea threat mitigation as ...

Situational Awareness (SA) is critical on the battlefield to maintain warfighter lethality, mobility, and survivability while countering emerging threats. Increased awareness enabled by the rapid delivery of crucial information and enhanced vision through the Situational Awareness Enhancement System (SAES) will allow warfighters to quickly spot possible threats and make timely decisions. This addi ...

Marines need multispectral imagers to identify hazards while retaining day/night targeting capability. QuantaSpec has already developed a hyperspectral imager that has a small size, weight, power, and cost footprint. QuantaSpec's approach can be further improved to give hyperspectral imaging capability to thermal sights with an additional weight of a few tens of grams over the thermal imager footp ...

The objective of this STTR is to develop a highly autonomous hull grooming system that can be operated easily and cost effectively with minimal supervision. The focus of the Phase 1 effort was to design and characterize the navigation system that can provide the required accurate on-hull navigation. The focus of the Phase 2 Base effort is to demonstrate closed loop autonomous control for relative ...

Omni will take the existing Safe To Fly Approved AMXDmax products and, through improvements in the manufacturing process, tooling and automation, will reduce the cost of the initial system and the overall cost per flight of the systems disposable sustainment supplies without changing the design or Safe To Fly certification.