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Toyon Research Corporation proposes research and development of advanced algorithms and efficient software for performing high-resolution georegistered 3D reconstruction with associated error models. The technology will be capable of processing sequences of 2D images to automatically generate and georegister 3D models, with no user intervention required. Rapid processing will be achieved by levera ...

Deployment of Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) on rotorcraft has resulted in significant improvements in maintenance action efficiency, increases in safety, and reductions in cost. Current HUMS provide diagnostic/prognostic information to maintenance crews through Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), which allows parts to be replaced on an as-needed basis. This marks an improvement over le ...

Acellent Technologies, Inc. (Acellent) proposes to develop a Real time Auto Responsive System for Rotorcraft"s Fatigue Damage Alleviation, using Structural Health Monitoring and Component Usage Data. The proposed technology is primarily based on three strong expertises that the team (Acellent and Advanced Rotorcraft Technologies (ART)) brought in to this proposal. A) Acellent"s SMART Layer technol ...

The Navy is interested in innovative ways to detect and track corrosion between metallic surfaces in magnesium housings. Many of the corrosion inspection methods currently employed in the field to inspect magnesium housings involve disassembling the components and performing a visual inspection. Apart from being time-consuming, labor intensive, cumbersome and unreliable these inspections often lea ...

Electromagnetic Systems, Inc. (EMSI) proposes to apply the TRL 6 moving ground vehicle radar imaging technology that it developed under Air Force SBIR funding to the classification of moving ground targets from Navy ISR and strike platforms. Our moving vehicle imaging technology reliably produces high-quality, wide dynamic range moving vehicle imagery with minimal impact on sensor area coverage ra ...

To address the Navy"s need for frequency-agile laser eye protection technology, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Hybrid Universal Laser Eye Protection (HULEP) system based on multilayer stacks of nanostructure semiconductor thin film (NSTF) and cholesteric liquid crystal (CHLC). In the HULEP design, the NSTF specifically provides broadband passive limiting with optical d ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a vibration suppression technology tailored for crystal oscillator applications called the integrated vibration isolator for Quartz (IVIQ). Vibration is an important factor for Quartz timing applications since vibration causes significant phase noise which reduces the bandwidth in communications systems, compromises slow speed det ...

An accurate, automated assessment of helicopter Gross Weight (GW) and Center of Gravity (CG) is critical for the determination of aircraft fatigue and life estimates since GW/CG affect static and dynamic characteristics of helicopters. Therefore GW and CG of a helicopter are valuable information in calculating reliable loads and remaining fatigue life. These in turn will assist the condition based ...

This program develops high resolution optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) equipment for measuring fiber cable within installations having numerous short spans of fibers. This situation occurs within military aircraft and shipboard systems, which have fiber cable spans from board-to-board, within electronics boxes and from box-to-box. This technology will leverage a recently developed 2 cm res ...

We propose to develop a reflectometer, leveraging our existing tunable transceiver technology at the core, both as a standalone product and also as an added capability that can be incorporated into transceiver modules. The development of a full design for the tunable, high-power, low phase noise laser for stable optical sources for high performance atom sensing applications is ideal for the next g ...