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Advanced Industrial Technology has invested ina system that combines plasma, arc welding and GMAW processes in to a hybrid process know as SuperMIG. The processes combined with a specially designed torch has demonstrated highly successful welding applications of different types of metals.

The US Navy's new DD(X) destroyer currently under design features amongst its extensive sensor suite an innovative dual (high frequency and mid-frequency) frequency, active bow sonar. One of the primary missions of the high frequency (HF) component of the bow-sonar will be in-stride mine avoidance. Advanced signal processing algorithms, developed for predecessor sonars aboard modern US submarine ...

The proposed project addresses the Navy's need to reduce shipbuilding costs and improve delivery schedules by developing equipment and methods to dramatically improve the welding of plate panel butt joints. Comprising the outer hull, decks, and bulkheads of ships, these panels remain one of the highest-cost welding and inspection operations in shipbuilding. In addition to welding and inspection ...

In this effort we will overcome emissions security and placement issues with current generation wireless networks by implementing adaptive power management into MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Networks) tailored to the Navy's application. Cross-layer protocol optimization in Mantes based on 802.11 x offer the possibility of high bandwidth, low cost partitioned area coverage (i.e. non-line of sight operation ...

This proposal describes a protective system for military vehicles that can prevent (or mitigate) damage caused by incoming Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs). The system is applied to existing vehicles, and can be removed and reattached with a minimum of effort. A key advantage of this protective system, called Anti-Ballistic Airbag (ABA), is that it pushes the explosive energy of the RPG away from ...

A noninvasive physiological monitoring device capable of monitoring from multiple sites to determine surface and deep tissue oxygenation in real time will benefit virtually all areas of the medical community. This tool will be invaluable for the entire medical arena, offering a cost effective method of vastly improving patient care. The specific use solicited it to penetrate through the skull an ...

Electromagnetic rail launchers are being designed for future long range naval surface fire support. These projectile launchers operate due to the interaction between the magnetic field and current flow between parallel conductive rails. An electric current accelerates a projectile down the barrel at hypersonic velocities. A high strength insulator is required to separate the energized launcher rai ...

The US Navy seeks none-line-of-sight deposition technologies to produce gear coatings to meet the Navy~{!&~}s loss-of-lubricant requirement. Current rotary platform drive trains, coated with black oxide, barely meet the loss-of-lubricant survivability requirement, and consequently require an expensive auxiliary lubrication system adding additional weight to the drive system. Inframat Corporation ...

The US Navy seeks high performance toughened electrically insulative bore materials of significant lengths used to separate copper conducting rails in an electromagnetic launcher (EML) for long range naval surface fire support. An EML consists of two electrical conductor rails, a moving element, and an armature. The rails of an EML are supported a certain distance apart from each other by a pair ...

The proposed program will develop a breathable ablator concept for application to Navy extended flight or maneuverable reentry vehicles. The breathable ablator concept will consist of a high-density, carbon-carbon outer shell over a charring ablator. This material configuration provides a greater resistance to ablation over longer flight times, where conventional materials would typically burn t ...