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Both military and law enforcement are showing increasing interest in a wider array of Non-Lethal Weapons such as Active Denial Technology (ADT). Such systems require electrical power for their high power millimeter-wave generating RF sources. Currently not available, a compact efficient prime power system is an enabling technology as future ADT systems look towards new, more compact solid state RF ...

Supersonic air vehicles require nose radomes that can withstand high temperatures as well as have high RF transmission over wider radio frequency bandwidths. Typically nose radomes are built from solid laminate or monolithic ceramic materials which inherently have a very narrow frequency band over which they are RF transparent. The proposed concept leverages a qualified ceramic matrix composite (C ...

US Naval ships such as the LPD 17 San Antonio class vessels require transparent armored windows (TAW) in the Pilot House and several control/conflagration stations. The current TAW design used aboard these ships is more than 20 years old and it has several design flaws that adversely affect life span, mission readiness, and replacement cost.There is an expressed need in the US Navy to develop a ne ...

This proposal is to extend into Phase II our development of Dynamic Consensus Analysis of Social Media (DCASM) as a means of rapidly uncovering latent information in critical scenarios. The objective of Phase II, is to build upon our significant technical achievements in Phase I and integrate DCASM with Apps for Rapid Epidemiological Assessment (AREA) a handheld ultra-rapid data collection app dev ...

Reliable operation of LCS computing systems are paramount to mission operations because unanticipated failures and system degradations result in the ship’s crew and subject matter experts (SMEs) spending extended time on debugging and resolving system issues. The need for reliability of large and complex computing environments has led to the development of network monitoring systems (NMS). These ...

The objective of this Phase II effort is to develop a platform for recording and reconstructing operational data in Navy surface combatants. This will be a unified, open, modular, comprehensive recording platform capable of recording quantitative and qualitative data in a distributed system along with tools for real-time data analysis, transformation, storage and reconstruction/replay all within t ...

Vibration Impact and Pressure (VIP) Sensors Inc proposes to develop in Phase II a Multimode Optical Sensor that can be integrated into a single node of the Autonomous Undersea Weapon System (AUWS) for target detection, classification, localization and tracking. The Multimode Optical Sensor includes a vector sensor (triaxial accelerometer and hydrophone), and a pressure sensor. The vector sensor me ...

. The SDC team proposes to begin the Phase II program with risk reduction design, analysis, manufacturing, and testing of critical components followed by designing for integration into the CH-53K cargo handling system and with the TBFDS, and designing and analyzing the Composite Pallet Rapid Restraint (CPR2) system to meet the prescribed structural load cases. Following the successful completion o ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR is risk reduction for the NGAPS DDS battery pack design in the areas of (1) electrochemical performance, (2) impact survival, and (3) the telescoping pack framework. For the first area, the performance of the individual Type I cells and small 3-cell packs will be measured under the environmental conditions expected during the operation of the NGAPS DDS. PolyPlus will ...

Ballistic Devices is developing a capacitor that utilizes Cubic Zirconia, a single crystal high-K dielectric material. The single crystal design approach is expected to enable orders of magnitude improvement in energy density over conventional ceramic capacitor designs. It is expected that these components will be able to operate at near the theoretical dielectric breakdown field strength and enab ...