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Development of hypersonic aircraft and weapon systems has become a critical focus for the Department of Defense to maintain global strike and projection of force capabilities. Despite decades of research, traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are either incapable of adequately predicting complex features in hypersonic flows or too expensive to be of practical use for vehicle desig ...

Current lethality software tools available to the DoD are limited to buildings, ground vehicles and air platforms. The warfighter does not currently have any software tools to support planning and predicting the damage to maritime targets. Weapon effects of interest include those associated with air blast and fire (internal and external), fragmentation, inert/reactive particles, shaped charge/expl ...

Breault Research is proud to provide our Navy customer with the technology and tools to design, produce and field a true Twenty First Century warhead. Breault’s Adaptive Multi-Mission Ordnance (AMMO) incorporates state-of-the-art lethality materials and flexible configurations to optimize warhead effectiveness in a smaller form factor. Breault’s unique design and production processes provide t ...

In military operations, it is vital that commanders have a high-level of situational awareness to manage risk and make effective decisions. Historically, the limitation of situational awareness has been the availability of data. However, in today's data-saturated battlefield, the challenge has shifted to efficiently harnessing the torrent of source data to construct an accurate picture of the batt ...

Current airborne military communications and electronic warfare systems require low SWaP, rugged fiber optics detectors for airborne military communications and electronic warfare systems. A typical 1 GHz-km graded index multi-mode (MM)50 µm fiber supports 20 GHz communication bandwidth over 50 m fiber length and 50 GHz bandwidth over 20 m fiber length. In both cases, all optical modes of the m ...

During the previous Phases of this project, the Ryalinks team developed and tested the core technology that delivers the functionality of this platform: modular extremely low-power sensor hardware modules capable of operating on 2 AA batteries for years, a hierarchical robust wireless mesh network with self-healing capabilities, and a back-end software to receive, report and broadcast sensor data ...

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is the Department of Defense’s authoritative source for the positions and motion of celestial bodies, motions of the Earth, and precise time. Part of the USNO’s mission involves regular improvement and verification of astronomical star catalog datasets with high-accuracy astrometry and photometry. Incidental collections on satellites may occur as well ...

The focus of the Compact, Efficient, High Power Direct-to-Green Laser Source SBIR is to develop a highly efficient green laser source tailored for Mine Countermeasures (MCM) in the SurfZone (SZ) and Very Shallow Water (VSW) regions. Areté is proposing to develop a pulsed 532 nm laser system achieving 125 mJ per pulse at a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz and a wall plug efficiency approaching 7%. ...

As a response to the Navy SBIR Topic N212-126, GHz Optical Underwater Detection Receiver, Alphacore will develop a wide bandwidth, multi-element optical receiver to enable the extraction of both reflectivity and range features of objects in water. This proposed work will integrate advanced compact photo detectors with Alphacore’s innovative high-speed readout technology. The proposed system will ...

We are developing a real-time GPU-accelerated back-scatter computation, scene generation pipeline tool "QRay-SAR" with upto 1 million scatter points at 10 kHz to render SAR images and interfacing with a Hardware-in-the-loop system (HWIL) to receive raw radar signals and return the processed images back to HWIL through a third party provided high-speed data transfer mechanism. Our technology far ex ...