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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 ...

The Hemispherical Underwater Non-Acoustic Tracking LiDAR (HUNT-L) is a high fidelity, short range underwater tracking system that can detect and track in real-time, large, and small unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), divers, and surface vehicles. Under this Phase II technical effort, BeamSea Associates (BSA) proposes to continue development of a HUNT-L prototype and to validate it with accuracie ...

Our team is developing a novel Quantum Cascade Laser configuration with ultra-high spectral brightness and 1,000x output aperture size compared to that for traditional edge-emitting QCLs. The new devices will deliver over 20W of continuous wave power in a nearly diffraction limited beam with 20% efficiency. The dramatic increase in output aperture size will ensure long-term reliability at the reco ...

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 ...

The war in Ukraine has shown that aerial vehicles are a significant part of modern warfare serving in tasks from aerial surveillance to missile defense. However, the current state of drone control requires an operator to have their head down and hands tied to a manual vehicle controller at all times which affects situational awareness (SA) and ultimately operator security. New forms of Human Machi ...

The objective of the project is to explore opportunities provided by the fourth generation of optical components and materials for hardening submarine optical systems against high energy lasers and other sources of high power jamming or damaging radiation, including sunlight, and to develop and demonstrate prototype devices for different main types of optical radiation hazards: spectrally narrowba ...

The Navy seeks an alternate method to extend the life of aircraft deck tie-down fittings in highly corrosive marine environments. The current primer takes damage from the persistent abrasion applied by the tensioner hook, making the underlying steel more susceptible to corrosion and wear. This directly results in an increased maintenance burden on the Navy. Due to the sheer quantity and critical f ...

The Navy currently utilizes an unreliable linkless ammunition loading system (LALS) for servicing aircraft resulting in considerable downtime that hinders mission readiness. This system up- and downloads 20-mm ammunition for the M61A1 and M61A2 gun systems installed in Navy operated F/A-18 aircraft. In order to improve system reliability and availability, Mainstream proposes to develop a drop-in r ...

“Since the advent of the internet, senior (military) leaders have called for shifting from a “need-to-know” approach to a “need-to-share… this shift is difficult (without) the proper tools”. The current effort aims to provide such a tool.  In Phase I, Design Interactive (DI) worked with Sailors onboard the CVN 78 to meet the Sailor 2025 Ready, Relevant Learning pillar, specifically � ...

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.