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Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

Currently, all JP10 is produced from fossil sources. The objective of the proposed project is to develop a scalable synthetic approach to producing JP-10 that meets military specification, MIL-DTL-87107E from non-fossil sustainable energy resources. During phase I, we will define, develop, and perform initial laboratory assessment of the proposed synthetic process to validate the technical feasi ...

Sonalysts, Inc. (Sonalysts) proposes the development and feasibility evaluation of a Threat Reduction by Integration of Metadata (TRIM) toolkit to integrate metadata from operational sources, independent of naval operational domain. Sonalysts will leverage the broad expertise of its employees (of which 40% are military veterans) and its software engineering and modeling resources to develop an ont ...

Hypersonic weapons are one of the main priorities of the Department of Defense (DoD) activities since China and Russia have such capabilities (e.g. the DF-ZF, designated by Pentagon as the WU-14, is a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle that has been operational by China since 2019).  Due to the importance of these adversarial threats, the Navy, Army, and Air Force have programs for developing hy ...

The US Navy is searching for a cost effective and novel solution for launchable mini-glider sensor platforms which can be of three standard size form factors. The Great Lakes Sound & Vibration, Inc. (GLSV) proposed glider will have the ability to be launched from the deck of various surface vessels and be able to survive a 48-hour service life in up to sea state 6 (SS 6) conditions. The GLSV glide ...

Sonalysts, Inc. (Sonalysts) proposes a portable expeditionary unit that can deliver Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) training to the Fleet via an orchestrated containerized system with an integrated training management application to track operator completion and launch training content. Sonalysts’ solution will also include Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) base ...

The US Navy requires unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and combatants which are affordable, reliable, fuel efficient, and proven hull forms. Procuring commercially available hull designs provide a cost effective means of achieve this. However, commercially available platforms are typically not designed for fuel efficient operations over broad operational speed ranges required for military vessels; i ...

InnoSys with the assistance of the University of Utah Nuclear Engineering Program (UU) proposes to develop a comprehensive and methodical approach to testing and characterizing the effects of X-ray, neutron, EMP, etc. on both the overall LEEFI/EFI and the various components (e.g. metals and dielectrics) that comprise the LEEFI/EFI. The ability of a low energy exploding foil initiator (LEEFI or EFI ...

Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) is a worldwide need. Current rescue efforts place human operators in harms way; vehicles, vessels and aircraft that are unmanned reduce this risk to humans. The Kairos Autonomi Universal Vehicle Controller (UVC) is a control unit that has the ability to automate and remotely control a wide array of different vehicles, surface vessels, or aircraft equip ...

Our goal for this Navy SBIR project is to develop a TRL-7 prototype of the BRG with excellent long-term bias stability and shock and vibration insensitivity that can operate in a military temperature range (-50–80 °C) and optionally can operate at very high temperature (200 °C) (i.e. bias drift < 0.01 deg/hr, angle random walk < 0.005 deg/sqrt(hr), and scale factor stability < 100 ppm).  We ...