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In Phase I, SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. conducted an extensive Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) and selected a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-aided INS solution to meet the Navy SSP’s requirements for a GPS alternative for reentry (see the Phase I Final Report for an overview of this solution). The proposed MachSAR system was able to improve position and velocity prediction accuracy by 100x compa ...

Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) is a worldwide need. Current rescue efforts place human operators in harms way; vehicles, vessels and aircraft that are unmanned reduce this risk to humans. The Kairos Autonomi Universal Vehicle Controller (UVC) is a control unit that has the ability to automate and remotely control a wide array of different vehicles, surface vessels, or aircraft equip ...

The primary objective of this effort will be the development, demonstration, and validation of a new suite of modeling and simulation capability for Navy analysis needs. The tool suite will utilize a new framework for implementing components models that will allow users to more easily access multiple analytical domains, including steady-state on-design and dynamic off-design. A new suite of tools ...

The firm proposes a distributed fiber-optic sensing platform for structural health monitoring of aerospace composites, including event and damage detection, localization, and assessment.

Hemp-based clothing are excellent for outdoor active wear, due to high strength, UV-protective qualities, mold resistance, and excellent moisture absorption and desorption. While academic research on hemp-based textiles in the US is increasing, it has naturally also become an area of interest to competing countries. Specifically, China is outperforming the US in hemp fiber technological advancemen ...

In unmanned underwater vehicles and underwater sensor networks underwater ranging is becoming of increasing importance. Laser-based ranging techniques offer the potential of high resolution and high speed. However, the challenging underwater environments could limit the performance of the optical ranging system. Specifically, (a) dynamic scattering particles distorts the optical beam in both time ...

Candent Technologies is proposing to continue the development of its Phase I design of an advanced technology, electric driven air compressor for an aircraft Active Flow Control (AFC) system.  The Candent Team, utilizing its extensive turbomachinery design and development experience, along with their Academic partner, who used their expertise and state of the art technology to design the electric ...

Advancements in electronic warfare driven by sophisticated sensors and weapons are pushing shipboard power distribution systems to higher voltage, more power dense solutions. Reduced cost and increased flexibility necessitate solutions that are rapidly scalable and are characterized by longer life and lower maintenance. These objectives are in conflict, as increased power density reduces life and ...

Phase II will focus heavily on adding checks for hundreds of new standards to Understand, including the Software Engineering Institute Computer Emergency Response Team (SEI CERT) security and safety standards. We will be increasing the underlying parser functionality so we can add new kinds of checks and improving how we display those checks to the engineers, both inside and outside of the Underst ...

The US Navy is interested in the employment of Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) sensor payloads capable of autonomous all-weather anti-surface search. IMSAR LLC, developer of low-Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) multi-mode airborne radar systems, is proposing to modify its sensor to integrate in the Navy’s XFC platform and, through a partnership with Arete and Shield AI, provide a low-SWaP sensor s ...