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This proposal offers to create a proof of concept, scalable, hardware platform that demonstrates the interface interoperability requirements of Hardware Open System Technologies (HOST) Tier 1 and Tier 2 OpenVPX Core Technology Standards. It will address a variety of software platforms, both legacy and emerging, to include those conforming to the new Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) te ...

Cybernet proposes to explore a straightforward audio/visual multimodal approach to conveying situation awareness of the current attitude of the aircraft to the pilot. This includes a flexible display based on addressable LEDs that is attached to the internal scaffolding of the cockpit, thus providing a virtual. It also includes an audio cue that leverages differentiation between the left and right ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) has operated solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) at 0.52 kW scales, on high sulfur JP-8, for over 1000 hours. A standalone 1 kW generator prototype has been demonstrated. It is based on unique PCI innovations relating to sulfur cleanup, fuel reformation, hybrid burners, stack selection and integration. PCI proposes to build on this experience to develop and demonstrate a ...

Submarine applications for antennas are severely constricted by mission constraints for stealth and force protection. High fidelity fiber optic links could potentially open a new range of mission capabilities by enabling towed antenna arrays that could be accessed while submerged. However, to date RF photonic links have had insufficient noise performance and/or dynamic range to satisfy these missi ...

Sonalysts proposes to develop a novel Digital Early Warning Receiver (DEWR) concept that fits within the digital architecture of the Next Generation Architecture (NGA) Submarine Electronic Warfare Suite. The DEWR will employ a modular video detection and digitization layer with narrow acceptance bandwidths across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and high-speed analog-to-digital conversion. Digi ...

Navy TASWCs face increasing operational demands with fewer platforms, more challenging targets, and more capable threats.This creates a difficult resource allocation problem inside a tightly coupled and labor intensive planning process.Coupled with complex risk assessment largely based on planner heuristics, this situation is a recipe for overloaded planners, hastily cobbled together plans, limite ...

A significant challenge in managing air quality in closed environments such as naval submarines is mitigating carbon dioxide concentration, which can accumulate to levels toxic to humans through normal respiration if not actively removed. The Navy currently uses liquid and solid amine based chemistries to capture CO2 from cabin air, which require high maintenance and routine regeneration. These sy ...

Howell Laboratories, Inc. (HLI) is proposing a seawater Electrolytic Chlorine Generator (ECG) and will leverage our considerable experience developing and qualifying ECGs for the Navy to meet the high integrity standards of submarine sea water systems, and environmental standards. The cost savings will be compared to the current cost of cleaning SSGNs and methods used on the Virginia class and is ...

SoarTech proposes to design PATELLA, an electronic kneeboard (EKB) solution for Navy pilots. Built from the ground-up to address the human factors issues that pilots face in the flight environment, PATELLA consists of a data-sharing system and accompanying software design specification that will overcome limitations in current electronic kneeboard technologies through two key innovations. First, P ...

Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) is pleased to provide this proposal to address the sensor needs identified in the Navy topic N161-054: Maritime Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) Environmental Sensing. Atmospheric turbulence can distort the measurements of electro-magnetic (EM) and Electro-Optic (EO) sensors. The Surface Navy has interest in predicting EM and EO propagation from surface s ...