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A novel non-acoustic shallow-water tracking concept for underwater vehicles currently under development is further refined to the point where system performance capabilities and limitations can be reasonably predicted and system design tradeoffs quantified. The method consists of unique polymer composite micro particles that are activated by the vehicle's wake and mark it's track on the water sur ...

Because of their restricted placement and imperfect design, existing overhead floodlights create uneven illumination across the flight decks of Air Capable Ships (ACS). To address the U.S. Navy need for improved deck light distribution, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Remote Source Lighting Overhead Flood Light (RESLOF) system, in which the luminaire is switchable betw ...

Current Naval microwave power amplifiers operate at power densities around 200-500 W/cm2. Amplifiers under development may operate at 2-4 times this power density. Despite the development of active cooling technologies, the principal technology for removing heat from a chip remains thermal conduction. In most power devices, solders, such as AuSn, are used for die attach bonding. Solder is not adap ...

The Remote Minehunting System (RMS) AN/WLD-1(V)1 vehicle (RMV) currently does not have a forward-looking sonar (FLS), or any other underwater obstacle avoidance sensor. This means that the RMV itself, while towing a sonar array, will be "flying blind" in littoral environments that are expected to have mines and other obstacles. Operating without an FLS poses a significant risk to the vehicle, an ...

The US Navy's new DD(X) destroyer currently under design features amongst its extensive sensor suite an innovative dual (high frequency and mid-frequency) frequency, active bow sonar. One of the primary missions of the high frequency (HF) component of the bow-sonar will be in-stride mine avoidance. Advanced signal processing algorithms, developed for predecessor sonars aboard modern US submarine ...

We propose to develop a method and tool that will formalize and streamline error handling already at the very earliest stages of software design. We propose to tackle this problem at the level of object oriented design in a commonly used modeling language, the Unified Modeling Language, UML. Our scheme includes the development of formal error handling notation as an extension to UML (Robust UML) ...

We will study the feasibility to build a tool, called HandlErr, which automatically enhances readable but non-robust programs with code to handle unhandled errors, according to user-specified error handling policies, thus making the programs robust. HandlErr performs a static analysis of the given program via data flow analysis, complemented by automated reasoning tools, to detect potentially ...

Work on reengineering existing software has largely consisted of parsing existing code (machine of assembly), reconstructing the control flow and data flow, and providing hopefully equivalent behavior in a modern language. We propose a development complementing current approaches by focusing on the high-level picture: the *contracts* behind software elements, expressing their specifications, accor ...

Military and civilian medicine currently lack a capability to develop and deploy realistic, mission-oriented training to personnel. Non-physician medical personnel are at increased risk of unpreparedness due to abbreviated training for similar mission-oriented responsibilities as physicians. In this Phase I effort MDInformatics (MDI) proposes to design a Disaster Medicine Core Curriculum (DMCC), ...

Mobilization of physicians and other medical personnel for military missions and operations creates a substantial training challenge. Large numbers of medical personnel with varying specialties are rapidly mobilized. These personnel often encounter medical problems outside their area of expertise with which they have little experience. This gap in existing knowledge and skills and the knowledge ...