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The US Navy faces daunting energy challenges that will further increase in severity, given the ever-increasing global demand for energy, diminishing energy supplies and demand for enhanced environmental stewardship. Additionally, noise is an important issue for the Navy due to the adverse effect it has on personnel and communities around naval air bases and training sites. Military combat aircraft ...

Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are often first responders, addressing crises such as natural disasters and regional instability. Crowdsourcing provides a powerful potential tool to help MEU analysts collect and analyze information in new operational settings, but Marines need tools to manage crowdsourcing. MapReduce addresses a similar distributed parallel processing problem, without the divers ...

In this Phase II SBIR program, QuesTek Innovations, a leader in the field of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), proposes to design and develop new aluminum alloys tailored for the unique processing conditions and challenges of Additive Manufacturing (AM) processing. QuesTek is uniquely suited to rapidly designing new aluminum alloys specifically optimized for AM processing usin ...

The Navy has made significant investment in the design, development, and deployment of net-centric information systems that provide critical support to fleet operations. Unfortunately, adverse operational conditions affect the availability and performance of distributed information systems. Since their current systems situation awareness is inadequate, system operators, administrators, and manager ...

Todays Navy continues to see increased demand for more power both on and off the ship (shore power). This need is driven by many factors. The most important of which is the continued development of high power density advanced weapons systems and sensors. Many power dense applications that naval engineers are working on today are already relying on the independent development of improved power cabl ...

This proposal describes the design and manufacture of large modulating retro-reflectors (MRR) using Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) based optical modulators. In the proposed MRR device, a micromachined deformable mirror will serve as one facet of a corner cube retro-reflector which will allow intensity modulation of the retro-reflected beam. A characteristic of the MEMS device is that it can ...

Buseks SeaCube project brings ocean altimetry to a compact and cost effective CubeSat platforma capability currently limited to an aging and vulnerable fleet of costly conventional satellites. A constellation of SeaCube altimeters will provide near real time sea height data across all of Earths oceans, bringing a new and powerful capability to the Navy or commercial shipping. Additionally this cap ...

Increasing global RF electromagnetic (EM) activity related to commercial, scientific, and military systems, threatens the integrity of satellite communication links and has resulted in an environment cluttered with RF signals, particularly in the UHF-band. This is causing two major problems: 1) interference (due to co-site and jamming); and 2) increase in the EM noise floor. These effects can caus ...

The proposal presents a camera, laser ranger and RF MIMO SAR mixed imaging-ranging sensor system for precise, automated position-keeping. The system does not need to install any instruments on SSBN, and works in all weather conditions and up to sea state 4. There are two combinations of camera and laser ranger (the camera is in charge of target detection, tracking and angle estimation, and the las ...

When escorting a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), blocking vessels automatically maintain their relative position using dynamic positioning (DP) systems, which rely on scanning lasers to precisely measure the positions of targets mounted on the SSBN. To install the targets, SSBN crewmen must risk going on deck while underway on the surface. Laser sensors have other shortcomings: their performan ...