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UUVs have become increasingly important tools in the collection of environmental data. Their unique ability to operate independent of surface vessel conditions allows oceanographic seawater measurements when traditional means is not possible. Historically sensor packages for UUVs have been based on adaptions of ship deployed equipment. Recent development in sensors, such as the Hybrid Flow Through ...

Active imaging systems are used to for imaging in degraded visual environments like that found in marine fog and other environments with a high level of attenuation and scattering from obscurants like fog, rain, smoke, and dust.These systems are still limited in range and resolution. SA Photonics is taking advantage of multiple image enhancement techniques, like wavelength tunability, pulse contro ...

Jamming and co-site Interference from high power, on-board emitters such as long-range radar present significant challenges to multi-mission capability and interoperability for airborne Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and ESM systems. Metamagnetics proposes a wide band, Auto-Tune Filter (AtF) based on its Frequency Selective Limiter technology to enhance the Navy’s ESM probability of intercept a ...

Marine physical fitness is a core element of force readiness: toward an end state of a healthy and fit force able to better answer the call in any clime and place (ALMARS 022/116). Marine physical training programs must be tailored to individuals in order to maximize the physical potential of every Marine. To meet this need, Charles River Analytics proposes to design and demonstrate a prototype sy ...

In the proposed SBIR project Akita Innovations and Adaptive 3D will develop feedstock materials and methods for the additive manufacture of soft elastomers that exhibit resistance to the permeation of chemical agents.The goal of the effort is to produce a fully functional Air Purifying Respirator (APR) and to demonstrate advantages of additive manufacturing to provide innovations such as custom si ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will develop novel feedstocks for 3D printing of lithium-ion batteries using existing additive manufacturing technologies. Lithium-ion batteries simultaneously offering high energy and power density energy will be demonstrated using the novel feedstock materials. PSI’s proprietary HA coating technology will be utilized in the feedstock formulations to maximize active ...

Storagenergy Technologies Inc. proposes to develop an all solid-state battery (ASSB) which can be made by a high-speed AMtechnology.

BaySpec Inc. proposes to develop a compact multi-gas analyzer to improve performance and reduce maintenance costs of current atmosphere monitoring systems in submarines. In the proposed system, a novel orthogonal sensor system will be used to detect, identify, and quantify in real time key volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and atmospheric compounds in submarine atmosphere. The Phase I research aim ...

The Navy requires an advanced analyzer to improve the performance and reduce the maintenance cost of current submarine atmosphere monitoring systems. To meet this need, we propose to develop an advanced Raman spectrographic system that will detect, identify and accurately measure much lower trace-level chemicals than current systems and provide measurements and readouts in real time. The system wi ...

We propose a two-prong machine learning approach that simultaneously uses two complementary techniques, deep learning CNN and manifold learning, to exploit the automatic feature and regularities discovery of deep learning to fuse the multiple sensor data and the sparsity representation of the data in manifold learning to fuse the raw sensor data as represented by their highly compressed lower dime ...