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ABSTRACT:The High Velocity Maintenance (HVM) initiative strives to reduce aircraft downtime while maintaining the most capable air fleet that achieves Air Force mission requirements.Unscheduled maintenance, due to issues uncovered midway into the maintenance work, introduces the most delays that negatively impact HVM turnaround time.To increase the predictability of the actual maintenance required ...

In this Phase I SBIR project, Fluid Ride will model, simulate, and virtually demonstrate their patented TRL5 Compressible Fluid Active Suspension Technology CFAST ability to improve soft soil mobility and mitigate road breakaway rollovers on 10-37 ton wheeled vehicles. Soft soil and road breakaway rollover are two of the largest mobility issues for military wheeled vehicles. Fluid Ride's CFAST has ...

A unique undersea acoustic phenomenon called Reliable Acoustic Path (RAP) offers an opportunity for a paradigm shift in air-ASW CONOPS. In areas where the ocean reaches sufficient depths, the density of the water increases to the point where the speed of sound exceeds that at the surface. An acoustic receiver placed below this critical depth benefits from greatly improved signal to noise ratio. Th ...

Todays Navy electronics maintenance training largely focuses on proceduralization of diagnosis and repair, rather than deep systems knowledge. This training is effective at producing durable skills for common systems, but brittle, especially for dealing with unique characteristics and properties of actual shipboard systems. With continuing modernization of equipment and growing unavailability of s ...

A versatile building system will be developed for effective use of indigenous materials towards expedient and economical construction of safe, serviceable, weather-resistant, sustainable and energy-efficiency buildings and other infrastructure systems. The indigenous materials of interest include: (i) reactive minerals such as biomass ash, natural pozzolans and lime for production of inorganic bin ...

US Navy submarines are carefully engineered to minimize their detectability by acoustic and electromagnetic (EM) sensors. Because the acoustic and EM signature of the sub can degrade over time, they are periodically measured at fixed test ranges. Providing the capability for a sub to assess its own signatures without transiting to one of these facilities would yield significant logistical and oper ...

SC2RAM (Simulated Cognitive Cyber Red team Attacker Model) is a cyber red team-in-a-box. It combines the cognitive power of human attackers with the efficiency and re-producibility of a computer program. It helps organizations defend against cyber attacks through at least three transition pathways: operator training, testing and certification of defensive automation, and analysis of cyber operatio ...

SoarTech, along with our partners Adaptive Cognitive Systems and Aptima, are applying our vast expertise in the design, development and integration of artificial intelligence technologies, bringing it to bear to help develop more realistic entity-level scenarios for USMC simulated training. Most crucial to our work will be the design and development of a full infrastructure, called SERUM (Simulate ...

Century has designed and manufactured aluminum metal matrix composite (MMC) brake drums for multiple applications both military and commerical with great success. Applications include axle loads ranging from 8,000 to 23,000 lbs. As applications vary the torque requirements of the brake system also vary. To work with multiple brake systems, multiple friction materials may be required to couple the ...

Army infantry Commanders rely on autonomous systems to gain situational awareness about what is around the next building or over the next hill. However, in smaller Army units, the Commander has limited personnel to help plan out and manage these autonomous systems. Tasking autonomous systems requires that the Commander first task the system operators, who then have to translate that intent into lo ...