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Existing filter technology does not suit the mechanical and electrical needs for use in expendable buoy systems. Current diplexer/triplexer designs do not provide adequate rejection of the high power transmitter signal within the receive channel within the specified size, weight and acceleration constraints required for the Navy Buoy System. NuWaves will leverage its success from the phase I and a ...

ELINT systems are often limited in bandwidth because the Nyquist criterion restricts the sampled bandwidth to one half of the maximum sampling rate of the A/D converter. While A/D converter technology has improved over the last several years, it is still not sufficient for many wideband applications. Compressive sensing (CS) is a revolutionary concept recently proposed that allows for wider bandwi ...

The Analysis and Reporting Client (ARC) technology transitioned via this program features a common or standardized solution for analyzing and reporting on smart aircraft data. ARC can be scaled across Naval Aviation platforms by enabling access to additional data formats and either reusing existing or developing new analytics as required. ARC allows for straightforward development of platform-spec ...

Edaptive Computing, Inc. (Edaptive) presents our Phase II proposal for a unique and commercially viable solution to the problem of developing software user interface components that are required to support simultaneous heterogeneous platform technologies and/or operating systems, and that are directly traced to and validated against operational requirements. Our Common Configuration Management Int ...

Nighttime bioluminescence poses a large naval tactical problem. Therefore a navigation aid is required for underwater vehicles (manned or un-manned) that will sense the platform-induced (e.g. an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, SEAL Delivery Vehicle, or diver) bioluminescence, water optical properties, and ambient light, and use the measured parameters as input to solve a simple radiative transfer alg ...

The objective of our Phase II work is to develop and demonstrate the Magnetic Underwater Mine (MAGNUM) confirmation sensor and associated integrated UUV sensor module. In the Phase I project, Sky Research and Geometrics explored the use of Micro-Fabricated Atomic Magnetometers (MFAM) technology to meet the Navy’s needs. The prospective MFAM sensor, data acquisition, and processing module have be ...

The primary objective of the proposed Phase II study is to implement a new high-performance cooling technology for thermal management of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio (GMR). Having successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of this cooling concept during the Phase I study, the proposed work will focus on determining all required cooling system hardware using an actual ...

Military aerospace structures require that a fiberglass galvanic corrosion isolation layer be used between any graphite composite parts in contact with aluminum. Adding a layer of fiberglass prepreg onto the aluminum-mating side of the composite laminate is a simple way to meet this requirement. Rapid curing resins and prepreg initiated using UltraViolet (UV) or Light Emitting Diode (LED) energy a ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has provided unprecedented freedom for manufacturing components with tailored geometry and properties and has created the potential for production of designs that were infeasible given conventional manufacturing techniques. Topology optimization provides a method for optimizing the morphology of a component in order to provide maximum performance (e.g. stiffness) for a ...

Development of nanolayer polymer films demonstrated a new class of dielectric film materials for high energy density and high temperature capacitor applications. Current state-of-the-art biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) dielectric films are limited by low dielectric constant (e = 2.25), low energy density and deteriorated high temperature performance. In contrast, multilayer film technology ...