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Capco proposes using materials developed in previous SBIR obscurant research efforts to prepare UVCM devices for test and evaluation. UV absorption will be optimized through particle geometry and processing parameters.

The objectives of the Phase II effort are to demonstrate the safety of the developed obscurant device for use in US Navy aircraft as an airborne expendable countermeasure, to optimize performance and to make the obscurant device fully compatible with existing Navy countermeasure dispensing systems.

Sporian Microsystems Inc. has spent the last several years developing polymer derived SiCN sensor and associated packaging technology for application temperatures up to 1350 & #176;C, and demonstrated them in the combustion environments of a range of commercial burner rigs and aerospace turbine engines. Based on our expertise in high-temperature materials and packaging processes, we propose to dev ...

The extension of classical frequency domain and wavelet transformation adaptive subband decompositions result in arbitrary time frequency til. The use of a time-varying tree-structured filterbank is proposed to provide a signal dependent transform which is capable of tracking non-stationarities via local reconfigurations. Under stationary assemptions, the filterbank converges to a unitary operat ...

Effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Command, Control and Communication have long been a high priority need for the Navy and DoD. Communication is essential for enabling UAV applications. A major challenge in a rapidly growing UAV secure command, control, and communications area is ensuring the transmission of critical information in Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) bandwidth-limited environments ...

Kinetic Resolve, Inc. (KR; Stillwater, MN), a service disabled veteran-owned small business, and The Protective Group (TPG; Miami Lakes, FL), a developer of lightweight armor solutions for the Department of Defense, have agreed to work together by forming Kinetic Protection (KP), a limited partnership, to rapidly develop and integrate a system of lightweight, reconfigurable and non-reconfigurable ...

We aim to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that is generalized across entity-level simulation systems and can be used to generate behaviors in training simulations that are both contextually and tactically realistic. The near-term goal for Phase I is to define and develop a concept for improving simulation training using AI in VBS2 and JSAF, focusing on improving the behavioral realis ...

Airborne Expendable Infrared Countermeasures (AEIRCMs) are deployed to alter the trajectory of infrared guided missiles that pose a threat to aircraft. Many AEIRCMs utilized by the Navy are ignited using a Safe-and-Arm (S&A) igniter assembly that ignites a Magnesium/Teflon?/Viton? (MTV) pellet, which in turn transfers energy to the countermeasure?s first fire/main grain. MTV, however, degrades qui ...

Aircraft equipped with On-Board Oxygen Generating Systems (OBOGS) selectively filter nitrogen and other gaseous contaminants in air from the aircraft's engine to provide the aircrew with an oxygen enriched breathing gas. Under suboptimal operating conditions, toxic byproducts can breach the OBOGS and enter the aircrew's oxygen supply. Current contaminant sensor technologies tend to lack ...

The objective of the proposed program is to determine the feasibility of a high efficiency, modular Permanent Magnet (PM) Variable Speed Drive (VSD) system intended for use in auxiliary shipboard applications. The proposed system provides the functionality and performance benefits of PM VSDs at a low overall cost. The system is designed to be modular and fully integrated, with a flexibility ...