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As the US Navy fleet reduces in size, the requirement for multiple capabilities on remaining ships is increasing. Combined with the requirement to reduce crew compliments, these capabilities are becoming unmanned, increasing the utilization of the ships, while allowing a safer distance from the threat. The use of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV), Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and other vehicle ...

The objective of this project is to develop algorithms controlling the high level flight pattern of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing swarming technology in a manner to maximize Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) performance for a selected algorithm through cooperative search operations involving a larger number of inexpensive UAVs. Based upon the success and results of the Phase I work, ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project aims to develop and implement a new algorithm in the area of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) that will lead to (i) dramatic decreases in disk and memory requirements at a given speech quality level and (ii) minimization of the amount of voice recordings needed to create a new synthetic voice. Most current TTS systems operate by concatenating ...

A system based on multiparameter fiber optic grating sensors is proposed that is capable of measuring multi-axis strain, pressure and temperature and axial strain and temperature simultaneously. These capabilities enable a system that is uniquely qualified to performed damage state analysis on structures.

Multi-axis fiber grating strain sensors may be used to localize and qualitatively identify the degree of damage in composite parts. Signatures associated with delaminations and damage tow material are significantly different for strain imaging produced data. This Phase I project is directed toward improving the quantitative measurement capability of "strain imaging" methods through experiments, ...

A fiber optic grating structural integrity measurement system is proposed. It has a sensor suite that combines multi-parameter fiber grating strain, temperature, humidity/moisture and UV sensors. These Blue Road Research embedded fiber grating sensors will be monitored in test composite coupons and their output linked to composite models developed by the University of Delaware so that the struct ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop an inexpensive, passive water purification system that will remove chemical and biological contaminants from water for home and personal use. Worldwide there is grave concern with the potential for terrorist acts to pollute municipal water systems. The uncertain nature of terrorist action makes defensive measures equall ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project focuses on the development of new pharmaceutical agents to selectively enhance tumor imaging using gallium 67. A photo-degradation product of nifedipine, nitrosipine, has been found to selectively enhance the uptake of Ga67 by tumor cells. A specific derivative of nitrosipine has an even better selective uptake of the radioactive imaging age ...

In this SBIR Phase I proposal, CleverSet (Prime Contractor and BAESystems (Subcontractor) propose to study Report-to-Track (RTT) and Track-to-Track (TTT) fusion tradeoffs in the context of tactical systems, such as the E-2 and JSF, by developing a testbed for BAE Systems' All-Source Track and ID Fuser (ATIF). The tradeoffs between RTT and TTT fusion are not well understood, and track-to-track fusi ...

Missile defense battle management is an inherently distributed process, involving sensors, weapons, and targets that are distributed over a region spanning thousands of miles. While most agents need some sense of "distant events", they neither need nor can afford detailed, high-fidelity models of the entire situation. CleverSet's approach to distributed battle management is based in variable reso ...