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The Candent Technologies “Reduced Cavitation, High Efficiency Outboard Propulsor for Small Planing Craft” Phase II program is structured to develop an advanced waterjet propulsor for the Combat Rubber Raiding Craft (CRRC). This new axial flow waterjet propulsion system is designed as a “bolt on” assembly that replaces the lower unit of the existing MFE 55 outboard motor. This new propulsio ...

In this Phase II proposal, we present a detailed research plan to deliver a complete and tested prototype Nanoxene® radiant heating system. During Phase I, we carried out a comprehensive set of experiments, summarized in this proposal, which confirmed the feasibility of implementing Nanoxene® technology in a radiant heating system for expeditionary shelters. System-level considerations have been ...

The focus of this Sequential Phase II effort is to build-out and harden the Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) solution developed in the preceding effort and implement refinements to make it deployment-ready.The solution will be applicable to the Air Force and will ultimately lead to a family of systems that can be used to protect friendly forces from small UAS threats.

We propose to continue our project generating transgenic insect with improved nutrition for humans and livestock, building on the milestones we have reached and will continue to develop in phase I. We have already demonstrated insertion of exogenous reporter DNA into the insect, and continue to develop genetic engineering tools and techniques. We have expressed the biosynthetic pathway of interest ...

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms play an increasingly important role in modern warfare.The goal of providing timely and actionable information to the warfighter can be greatly facilitated by the ability to simultaneously collect multiple types of sensor data.Imaging one target without losing track of another target can mean the difference between mission success and m ...

Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) developers have limited marketplace options for motor speed controllers.The largest commercial controllers are generally limited to below 12 kW and battery voltages of less than 50 V, Although these are well suited to 800 Class helicopters and Giant scale fixed-wing aircraft, they are not powerful enough for larger UAV development.A few high-power options exist up to 25 ...

Unmanned automated convoys provide an efficient means for transporting the cargo of many vehicles across the same terrain to reach a desired location. As more vehicles are added, the efficiency of the convoy can increase; however, if each successive vehicle uses the previous vehicle for path following, the convoy accuracy will gradually degrade. In order to improve the path following of successive ...

The proposed Phase II research will develop a comprehensive Big Data environment for the deserialization, parsing, transformation, loading, management, search, ad-hoc query, data mining, data fusion, and visualization of simulated missile defense data. This will include custom web-based user interface capabilities, supplemented by workflow management capabilities. Parallel implementations of data ...

Techshot is pleased to provide this phase II proposal to continue our exciting scaffold development work in creating a Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft (TEVG).This off the shelf conduit will be capable of being combined with the patients own cells either at the time of surgery or by healing and remodeling in situ to provide a long term solution to revascularization due to traumatic injury.We inten ...

Group 2-3 UAS engines have low mean time between overhauls (MTBOs), often with as little as 200-400 hours before maintenance must be conducted.This leads to significant maintenance cost and logistics tail for deployed operations.Two-stroke piston and rotary engines for Group 2-3 platforms have common maintenance drivers such as carbon fouling, and wear of cylinders, housings and bearings.Phase I r ...