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The Department of Defense (DoD) is supported by a vast global network of computers, sensors, and equipment that is continually at risk of being breached by adversaries. Such cyber elements comprise an important part of the DoDs military readiness and the loss or degradation of such elements would reduce key advantages in communication, intelligence, and organization. Despite heavy investments in s ...

There is a strong movement to add Non-Kinetic Fire COAs, such as Electronic Warfare attack and Computer Network Attack to the military planners toolbox. Because this new approach, called Integrated Fires (IF), integrates attack types from across traditionally separate planning disciplines it requires the creation of new planning methodologies and technologies. One key technology gap is in the Navy ...

Manufacturers of aerospace propulsion systems are well aware of the positive effects of compressive residual stress (RS) fields on turbo-machinery components in terms of improved fatigue life and durability. Tensile RS, however, can cause unfavorable conditions which may lead to premature failure during operational usage. Thus, the industry objective is to capitalize on compressive RS and prevent ...

Performance improvements and cost reduction efforts are perpetually underway to shipboard wireless technology device batteries to meet and exceed the safety, energy and lifecycle targets set forth by the Navy. All-solid-state batteries are being investigated to meet these target metrics as they offer ultimate safety, higher packing efficiency, and longer cycle life of high voltage batteries over s ...

Heureka and Lockheed Martin will develop an AI-based approach to replicate human change request analysis. The approach utilizes state-of-the-art knowledge engineering to elicit expert tacit rules from past CRs. To replicate current processes, we will build and train models which replicate each product area's reasoning. This has several benefits. First, it emulates current human based processes (pr ...

Drawing on its experiences with a variety of radar system designs, both as the sole designer and as a team member, Colorado Engineering, Inc. (CEI) with teammate Saab Defense and Security USA LLC, proposes to research the state-of-the-market, model, simulate, and analyze the trade-space of five alternative radar front-end designs, which all utilize band pass filters: Direct RF Sampling (DRFS) util ...

Gougeon Brothers Inc. is submitting a proposal to address the need for a temporary repair procedure for 5xxx series aluminum U.S. Navy ship structures that have stress corrosion cracking issues. The proposal explains how an innovative toughened thixotropic epoxy adhesive can be used to wet out reinforcing fabrics to a surface with simple surface preparation. This concept takes advantage of the wor ...

The Navy and USMC desire innovative technology solutions to upgrade its electrical energy conversion capabilities in order to reduce volume, weight, and cost for efficiently executing land- and sea-based operations. Global Technology Connection, Inc. (GTC) in collaboration with its university and industrial partners, established the feasibility of developing a high power density, high efficiency u ...

We propose an intelligent assessment concept that will discover and reason about KSAs in multiple instruc-tional domains and settings. SoarTech will team with world-class researchers from the University of Califor-nia, Davis and the University of Memphis to research and develop TARGET: Transfer via Active Requests to Generalize Effective Training. TARGET will enhance SoarTechs assessment system DA ...

The Navy is interested in developing hybrid superconducting power transmission cables that would carry at least 5 kA of current and have a current density of at least 35 MA/m2. The cable should be able to carry 30 % of the rated current even when the superconducting cable fails. We propose to develop a hybrid superconducting cable, based on CORC cables, which potentially have a current density of ...