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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.

The objective of this proposed effort is to develop a highly autonomous hull-grooming system that can be operated easily and cost-effectively with minimal supervision. This system will meet the rigorous standards of current manned-grooming operations using a rotating brush tool and will ensure complete coverage of the groomed area by providing on-hull positioning accuracy of 0.15m. We will develop ...

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 ...

This Phase-I SBIR program will investigate novel techniques for the efficient delivery of signal power to reactive loads such as are required in sonar systems. Class-D and class-S power amplifiers with very fast switching offer a theoretical efficiency of100 percent. Maintaining high efficiency with a reactive load is achieved by very fast switching, achieved by a new type of complementary MOSFE ...

Marines Maintainers using the Electronic Maintenance Support System (EMSS) to perform logistical support are currently constrained to the small liquid crystal display (LCD), which is ruggedized Panasonic CF-19 Toughbook known as the electronic maintenance device (EMD). Though it is very useful, the human factors of reading schematics optimized for presentation on paper sizes up to 22 in x 34 in (A ...

Structural monitoring of Navy aircraft is of critical importance as the fleet ages. One critical area includes the control surfaces, which are subject to intense, dynamic buffet loading which can lead to structural cracking. The highly transient nature of buffet loading makes it difficult to measure using conventional sensors. We propose to solve this problem by combining a network of time-synchro ...

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 ...

Current military dive masks are relatively bulky and do not function well with night vision equipment or weapons because of a large forward projection from the face. The additional size and complications of an integrated display for situational awareness and augmented reality exacerbates these problems. A versatile, compact and easy to stow goggle system with an integrated illuminated display that ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR proposal is to design, build, test, and demonstrate next generation energy harvesting wireless sensors for real time load measurement and structural damage tracking on helicopters. Energy harvesting allows the realization of wireless monitoring systems that do not require battery maintenance. During Phase I, our energy harvesting wireless sensors were optimized for ...

The goal of this Phase I SBIR proposal is to design and build energy harvesting wireless sensing systems suitable for use aboard Navy Helicopters. The program will begin with a survey of typical vibration data obtained during flight testing; these data will then be used to optimize our existing vibration energy harvesting wireless sensors (VEWS) for use on Navy helicopters. These software progra ...