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The primary objective of this effort will be the development, demonstration, and validation of a new suite of modeling and simulation capability for Navy analysis needs. The tool suite will utilize a new framework for implementing components models that will allow users to more easily access multiple analytical domains, including steady-state on-design and dynamic off-design. A new suite of tools ...

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 ( ...

Candent Technologies is proposing to continue the development of its Phase I design of an advanced technology, electric driven air compressor for an aircraft Active Flow Control (AFC) system.  The Candent Team, utilizing its extensive turbomachinery design and development experience, along with their Academic partner, who used their expertise and state of the art technology to design the electric ...

Advancements in electronic warfare driven by sophisticated sensors and weapons are pushing shipboard power distribution systems to higher voltage, more power dense solutions. Reduced cost and increased flexibility necessitate solutions that are rapidly scalable and are characterized by longer life and lower maintenance. These objectives are in conflict, as increased power density reduces life and ...

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 project focuses on the development of high-Q tunable bandpass filters based upon magnetically tuned thin film YIG resonators. Both printed circuit board integrated and all thin film-based devices will be developed.  The filters will be integrated into GPS and SATCOM systems to demonstrate system resiliency in the presence of RF interference. The Phase II Base effort will focus on the deposit ...

5G mobile networks are poised to dramatically enhance communication capabilities for DoD missions, such as those that require high mobility, and/or seamless connectivity between Navy vessels and UAV/USV/UUV/UGVs, each with rapidly changing positions. The network slicing enhancements of 5G will enable increasingly sophisticated network tunneling scenarios, such as allowing a battlefield partner (of ...

Through existing STTR N16A-T012, Continuous Solutions (CS) and Purdue University are developing a product line which consists of Common Mode (CM) current-mitigating Bus-Bar Based Common Mode Inductors (B3CMI) and AC Common Mode Shorting Networks (ACSN). These products are installed on the DC (B3CMI) or AC (ACSN) interfaces of power converters. The DC-rail-inline B3CMI adds significant CM impedance ...

During the Authenticity Ledger for Auditable Military Enclaved Data Access (ALAMEDA) Phase 1 effort, SIMBA Chain worked with USMC Depot Albany stakeholders to define the use case for a blockchain-based prototype to monitor the inventory and movement of physical assets at the Depot. SIMBA Chain and USMC Albany stakeholders selected the M2A1 .50 Caliber use case to integrate Bill of Materials (BOM) ...