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The goal of this STTR (Phase I and II) is to develop a miniature, low power system to detect chemical and biological warfare agents and related industrial chemicals in seawater and the air immediately above the water surface. The system is to be deployed in the Navy's Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Ionfinity, together with its partners, the NA ...

General Vortex Energy, Inc.(GVE)has demonstrated the feasibility of a highly efficient, compact microturbine for Navy shipboard to couple with PEM, MCFC and SOFC hybrid fuel cell systems. The JVT/fuel cell hybrid system's flexibility allows the system to operate under all shipboard conditions while enhancing the benefits given by fuel cells. GVE Inc. has designed a hybrid fuel cell power generati ...

The objective of the Phase II program is to design, build and test a prototype ISR Sensor Package through proof-of-concept demonstrations, to support littoral-zone warfare mission products; detection and characterization of low-contrast targets; and provide accurate geo-location of the products. The ISC team's ISR concept is based upon a set of requirements to completely satisfy this objective. ...

Bulk fuel desulfurization is required to apply fuel cells to a new class of naval vessels. Altex, a small business entity, and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), a research organization, have teamed up under a Phase I STTR program and have shown the feasibility of the innovative Logistic Fuel Sulfur Removal (LFSR) system. The LFSR removes the fuel sulfur from Navy fuels without detrimental impac ...

A multi-channel time series imaging system is being designed, constructed and evaluated for providing unique spectral polarimetric imaging data for ONR programs that are developing advanced algorithms for littoral warfare ISR. Twelve channels of data are collected simultaneously from an aircraft in a temporal imaging mode. The design is based on the success of the Airborne Remote Optical Spotlig ...

purpose of this project was to design a gripping system that would minimize the time required to load cargo on an LCAC, without a significant weight penalty. We designed and prototyped a system that is fast to attach: Each grip requires less than 30 second to install. The grip is self tightening: The crew simply installs the grip onto the load, presses a button and goes on to the next task. The gr ...

This project will demonstrate 3D sensor capability to identify and track maritime targets, collect target characteristics that enable quick development of identification (ID) templates for ID and tracking of new targets, apply the technology to currently deployed naval passive sensor suites, and extend the technology to airborne platforms.

This program adds built-in-test (BIT) functionality within multi-Gbps multimode fiber optic transceivers. The end goal is to develop transceivers capable of detecting and isolating fiber faults along the cable plant in a military environment. This Phase II effort will investigate a solution that integrates the BIT functionality into the transceiver IC so that the overall optical subassembly and ...

This SBIR Phase II proposal describes the development of a breadboard Advanced Optically-driven Spin Precession Magnetometer (AOSPM), an ultra high-sensitivity scalar laser magnetometer for airborne ASW. The AOSPM is an innovative high-sensitivity instrument capable of measuring scalar DC and ELF magnetic fields with a sensitivity better than 10.0 fT/root-Hz. Since the high sensitivity AOSPM is a ...

The problem is to improve airborne maritime radar detection of small moving targets in clutter, where the clutter varies with time, range, azimuth, sea state, grazing angle, wind speed, and the look direction of the radar relative to the wind direction. A new version of space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is applied to the problem. The new technique provides improved covariance estimation for ...