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The Sonalysts Team proposes the research, identification, and Proof-of-Concept demonstration of an architecture solution to the Fleet Numeric Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Center (FNMOC) to include a software suite of tools for the Navy Advanced Climate Analysis and Forecast (ACAF) System. This approach will allow end users and FNMOC analysts to manipulate the latest climate, meteorolog ...

ABSTRACT: U.S military logistics fuels such as JP-8 and JP-5 are used across the full range of its IC engines, from those adapted from Avgas to Remove Piloted Aircraft (RPA) applications to heavy duty compression ignition engines. Yet unlike commercial diesel fuels, these distillate fuels have no cetane specification, and so vary widely in this key measure of ignition delay. The result can be s ...

This project aggregates, adapts and leverages the optimum technology for each function in a heterogeneously integrated power stage (HIPS) for package-integrated voltage regulators (PIVRs):Gallium arsenide (GaAs) die - monolithically integrate multiple lateral field effect transistors (FETs) using a high-volume foundry. Sardas technology reduces the GaAs cost by >80% by reducing the die size and en ...

FCO is representative of a fuel fire scenario which is a clear danger to solid rocket motors during logistical and operational scenarios. Fuel fires carry a high risk of inducing violent reactions which exceed the safety envelope of the munitions and cause significant collateral damage. Current methods of alleviating this risk such as Thermally Initiated Venting Systems (TIVS) have had difficult ...

A missile will sometimes break into smaller pieces, either by design or as a result of a malfunction or collision. The latter cases are called off-nominal, and can be difficult to analyze, especially if not observed directly. Before break-up there is a single parent object. After break-up there are multiple child objects, likely on very different trajectories. A radar is assumed to track the p ...

The objective of this effort is to improve first principles physics based models for predicting post-intercept debris at late-times. Current techniques terminate the debris scene at a very short time after intercept due to high computational costs of physics based models. Simple ballistic propagation is applied to the debris, which can lead to inaccuracies because of late-time deformation or com ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposal will demonstrate the feasibility of an ultra-low power radio frequency (RF) field sensor based on novel magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) technology. The sensor will be comprised of an MTJ sensing element that, when placed in a component or system, will monitor for perturbations in the ambient RF field profile during various stages of operatio ...

Submarine operations are increasingly complex and lack automated support. This has made mission planning and conduct cumbersome, labor-intensive, and error prone. As a result, PEO-IWS5 and ONR developed and fielded the AN/BYG-1 Mission Planning Application (MPA) to help streamline mission planning workflow. To assist with further streamlining of mission planning workflows, Sonalysts Phase I SBIR d ...

Gallium Nitride is a wide bandgap, highly transparent material with a second order non-linear susceptibility similar to that of LiNbO3 with high thermal conductivity. As such, it is of interest for use as a quasi-phase matching material for several high power nonlinear devices. Kyma Technologies will grow thick (~1mm) periodically oriented GaN crystals using hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) and ...

The overall goal of the proposed Phase II effort is to mature the concept of a blast-only CRAM warhead. The outcome of the Phase II will be a detailed warhead design, with accompanying lethality analysis to aid in implementing the warhead at a system level. Future development of a functional blast-only CRAM interceptor will be based upon the results of this Phase II effort.