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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 ...

Commercial vacuum melting grew substantially in popularity in the 1950s in the demand for superalloys. The techniques remain popular in all high-performance metal due to their high level of control over composition, cleanliness, and homogeneity. The US Navy commonly uses Alloy 53 (AMS 6308) in safety critical applications such as helicopter rotors which is produced using a double vacuum melt VIM ( ...

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.

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 ...

Under prior SBIR efforts, a shipboard module handling device was developed called the ‘Confined Container - Lift and Maneuver System’ or CC-LMS, with a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) demonstrator prototype has been successfully demonstrated at two facilities in Corvallis, OR and at US Navy Depot Port Hueneme, California. The system has adequately demonstrated its ability of safely lifting and omni-dir ...

To improve performance, reduce size, and minimize the radiation cross section (RCS) of conformal antennas, conformal antennas miniaturized using custom-engineered dielectric and magneto-dielectric nanocomposite materials and multi-materials additive manufacturing (AM) will be demonstrated. Engineering the effective properties of nanocomposite materials by specific concentrations and arrangement 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 ...