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There is a growing need to accurately characterize nuclear materials not only for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation treaty verification but also for forensics and provenance. At present, nuclear material identification requires samples to be collected and sent to laboratories for analysis using large and expensive equipment, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) or s ...

This proposal for Phase II in response to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) topic 212-006 “Algorithm that can locally link radiation detectors (of different resolutions) to enhance identification/ localization capability”. The topic describes the need for an algorithm to support the fusion of multiple and varied detector outputs into actionable information. The specific focus is to id ...

In this Phase I project, Oceanit will design a self-healing computing system for use on Navy vessels to keep a ship's primary functions operational in combat should the original computing system be damaged during an attack.

Electronic monitoring (EM) represents a promising opportunity for fishery management of the future. Yet after nearly two decades of implementation less than 1% of the world’s fishing fleet are able to participate in these programs. Cost remains a key barrier to the implementation of these programs and the primary cost drivers are manual video review, data transmission and data storage. Our SBIR ...

Hypersonic air vehicles are being developed for a variety of military applications because of their global reach and rapid response. EO/IR sensors on these platforms need to provide high-quality imagery to support these missions. Similarly, laser directed energy (DE) systems need to stabilize the beam and compensate for wavefront aberrations at high frame rates. When viewing through optical window ...

Goodman Technologies (GT) demonstrated 2 aligned carbon nanotube (ACNT) approaches (Nanoforest I, aka VACNT, and patent pending 3-Dimensional Nanoforest III, aka ONT) which provided double-digit percentage improvements in the fracture toughness of commercially available AFR-PE-4 and RM-1100 polyimide systems (Teijin/Renegade Materials), and in Carbon/Epoxy. GT’s breakthrough ACNT enhancements of ...

This effort seeks to improve off-GPS navigation performance for underwater vehicles, both manned and unmanned, including UUVs, AUVs, ROVs and manned subs, with automatic, real-time feature-based navigation known as SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.  SLAM navigation aiding uses matching of terrain features to prove corrections that reduce the drift in the vehicles Inertial Navigation S ...

The CPDC brings on-demand shielding from hostile, disruptive, and damaging RF to the warfighter in contested EM environments. These CPDC capabilities fall under 4 operational categories: (1) switch mode, (2) limiter mode, (3) tuner mode, and (4) protection against EM pulses with nanosecond and sub-nanosecond rise time. In Phase II, Verus Research will  mature the CPDC design, demonstrate a high p ...

Electrically driven technologies are replacing hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems in new military aircraft designs to improve capability, reliability and maintainability.  This transition requires high performance electronic components capable of operating over a wide temperature range.  Capacitors, which provide necessary power conditioning, have been identified as a limiting component ...

Undersea acoustic surveillance arrays are the Navy’s first line of defense in monitoring critical locations and protecting them from increasingly sophisticated adversary submarine threats. The existing methods used to design and plan seafloor sensor networks are a labor-heavy, lengthy and highly iterative process that takes up to several weeks. The Makai Ocean Engineering team (Makai) proposes t ...