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Light absorption by aerosols is a key component to atmospheric extinction, and affects a number of processes relevant to the Navy. Satellite and other remotely sensed measurements can be strongly impacted by aerosols, obscuring targets and/or confounding interpretation of data products. Directed energy applications, including weapon and communication systems, are also impacted by absorption, which ...

NanoSonic is a small, advanced materials company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of state-of-the-art structural composites that are not commercially available.  Here, NanoSonic shall produce aircraft composites using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques with a commercial scalable method for revitalizing carbon fiber reclaimed from end-of-life and aircraft composite scraps. ...

As complexity and performance requirements increases for RF sensors and systems for electronic warfare applications, the need for innovative and low-power compressive sensing (CS) technologies will become urgent in power constrained mobile platforms. There are several DOD and government application areas where this holds true and the high-performance CS technology to be developed in this program c ...

Hemp-based clothing are excellent for outdoor active wear, due to high strength, UV-protective qualities, mold resistance, and excellent moisture absorption and desorption. While academic research on hemp-based textiles in the US is increasing, it has naturally also become an area of interest to competing countries. Specifically, China is outperforming the US in hemp fiber technological advanceme ...

Hepburn and Sons LLC teamed with North Carolina State University (NCSU) proposes an analysis of alternatives (AoA) to design and optimize a megawatt class, solid state transformer rectifier (SSTR) supporting maintainability of U.S. Navy shipboard power infrastructure. The design will convert 13.8kV AC to +-850V DC with modular, line-replaceable units (LRUs) that are compact and lightweight such th ...

Detecting and Avoiding (DAA) manned aircraft from small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) remains the unsolved problem for safe integration of sUAS into civil airspaces where Navy UAS must pay Due Regard to the laws of civil aviation. The difficulties are manifold. The solution requires both ultra-low SWaP sensors that track aircraft over long ranges, providing 360o field-of-regard (FOR), and often ...

High power semiconductor devices suffer from difficulty in dissipating heat and thermal stresses. Silicon carbide-based power modules, in particular, have increasingly challenging heat loads despite their high efficiencies. In general terms, the module packaging methods used to improve cooling (moving metal heatsinks closer to the die) also increase thermal stresses, and the methods used to reduce ...

Both acoustic and electromagnetic waves exert forces of radiation on targets in their path of propagation. The radiation force (pressure) results from the change in wave momentum due to scattering by the target, averaged over one period of oscillation.  Modulated radiation pressure (MRP) utilizes the acoustic radiation force by using a double-sided suppressed carrier modulated (DSB-SCM) incident ...

MARi, LLC and Carnegie Mellon University are partnering to combine state of the art multimedia content tagging algorithms together with granular levels of task and Sailor analytics to ensure that knowledge objects can quickly move through a semi-automated, custom approval pathway - getting the latest and best information to the right person at the right time.  Knowledge sharing systems designed f ...

Hepburn and Sons LLC proposes to design a ground fault detection system for 440VAC three phase radial Navy shipboard power distribution, while teaming with their partner Florida State University, Center for Advanced Power Systems (FSU CAPS). Existing Navy ground fault detection systems can detect and locate single line to ground faults on a given phase, but a second ground fault on a separate phas ...