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Autonomous landing of a fixed wing Unmanned Air Vehicle on the deck of a moving ship requires a fast initializing, precise, and accurate ship-relative navigation solution able that is capable of functioning in emissions control scenarios (EMCON). Current state-of-the-art landing systems rely on RF emissions and are therefore inoperable in EMCON or are subject to the availability of a specific RF s ...

The advancement of systems requiring high power (megawatt level) in a short amount of time (seconds to minutes) is increasing, and there is currently no reliable energy storage and release system to complement these technologies on the Navys ships. Traditional flywheels are heavy with low tip speeds and often have to be built in place. Creare proposes an advanced carbon nanotube (CNT) flywheel for ...

BlueRISCs proposed solution takes the form of a binary-level toolkit whose goal is to create implicitly brittle software with fast crash properties. The approach performs static analysis at the binary-level (i.e. no source code required) as well as associated transformations aimed at breaking fundamental assumptions regarding inter-procedural data flow as well as code layout and control-flow. Thes ...

TeraDiode proposes to design and build a high brightness ultraviolet (UV) laser based on its proprietary Wavelength Beam Combination (WBC) technology. TeraDiode will combine multiple state-of-the-art high power UV lasers in multiple wavelength bands using WBC to have a single output beam that is co-boresighted in the near field and far field.

The US Navy needs robust detection systems for UUVs operating in harbor environments to protect high-value assets. The OASIS Team proposes to conduct a detailed feasibility study of using passive array(s) with integrated signal processor(s) to detect, classify and track, in real time, the underwater radiated noise of intruder UUVs. The requirement for the system will be a detection range of 1 km w ...

A new generation of miniaturized atomic magnetometers is being developed and integrated into naval systems such as small unmanned fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms. This project is intended to develop a magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) system unit that integrates theses sensor elements, control electronics, auxiliary or reference sensors, and digital signal processing methods into a compact form ...

This development is to address diver helmet communications that will operate in the high noise of diver helmet breathing noise and underwater tool noise as well as in varying gas density/mixtures (squeaky voice). The developed system (helmet (bottom-side) and diver station (topside)) will demonstrate improved and clear communications in actual dives and/or dive chambers. The components will be rug ...

Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) threats in a harbor environment present a complex, and in certain ways contradictory, set of detection and classification issues. The threats may come in the form of highly aggressive behaviors with associated kinematics and classification signatures, as well as passive loitering with different kinematics and classification opportunities. One obvious modality to c ...

Voice communication with military divers is challenged by their extreme operating environment and limited by inadequate performance from their legacy communications equipment. Bottomside, the divers are subject to extreme pressures, mixed breathing gases, and high ambient noise. Clean pickup and delivery of voice would be challenging under these conditions even with ideal communications equipment. ...

Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) has developed a batch process to coat commercial carbon fibers (CF) with copper. The thickness of the copper coating and the diameter of the substrate fiber can be tuned to yield optimized chaff with high Radar Cross Section (RCS). Simulations and single fiber lab measurements indicate that the proposed copper coated CF (Cu/CF) provide 6.5X extinction compared to the ...