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Resilience to evolving cybersecurity threats continues to be a high priority across Navy tactical and nontactical systems. Protecting these systems is a complex, daunting, technology challenge. Presently, a multilayered, defense-in-depth strategy is used to identify cyber-attacks and protect the core assets of a system, namely its data, from being compromised. Existing security tools and practices ...

Sonalysts proposes to develop PING!, a fun and engaging browser-based serious game for team Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) at sea and on shore training that targets AN/SQQ-89A(V) sonar operators with progressively challenging tactical scenarios. As teams compete for the best scores, they can focus on proficiencies in which they need the most work, based on integration with the Moodle Learning Managem ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) proposes a Cyber-Resiliency Modeling and Assessment Framework leveraging its expertise in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches, which facilitates cross-system risk-assessment of cyber-vulnerabilities, and analysis-of-options (AoA) studies in an ICS (Industrial Control System) architecture. An MBSE approach coupled with Risk Engineering would yield a compre ...

The current cost of implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is well above practical levels, more than tripling the cost of power generation, without carbon credit offsets. Therefore, for US coal plants to be able to implement CCS without significant negative economic impact, there is a critical need for new CCS technologies that can change this economic picture dramatically. One way to ...

The declining cost of solar technology for electricity generation has led to a dramatic increase in its deployment. However, the intermittent nature of solar photovoltaic generation presents a significant challenge for grid operators, and it is widely recognized that co-located, inexpensive and reliable energy storage is required to promote the stability and operational flexibility of the grid. Id ...

Public awareness of energy saving and environmental concerns raises the demand for better fuel efficiency and weight reduction of vehicles. Weight reduction must also be cost effective for consumers, meet or exceed current and planned safety requirements, meet consumer expectations for vehicle performance and durability. The current brake systems consisting of rotors and calipers made of cast iron ...

Currently spark ignition (SI) engines dominate the light vehicle market, and over 80 million light vehicle engines are made worldwide. However, such SI engines experience exceptionally poor efficiency at low to medium loads and speeds, and this makes it difficult to meet new fuel efficiency standards expected to be imposed in many locations around the world. Furthermore, the insufficient wall temp ...

Si has been considered as a potential candidate to replace the current anode material, graphite (372 mAh/g, LiC6), because of its high capacity (3579 mAh/g, Li15Si4), low environmental impacts, and potentially low cost. However, the utilization of Si in LIBs has been hindered by two major issues: 1) Si particles experience huge volume expansion up to 300%, which causes mechanical disintegration of ...

Radiological monitoring of nuclear power plants is a constant expense for commercial nuclear facilities. It is necessary to understand chemical processes within the plant, to minimize dose to works, and to minimize outage time, all of which have important economic impacts on nuclear power production. The current tools that are available for radiological monitoring are based on radiation detection ...

The significance of the problem to be addressed by this DOE SBIR project involves excessive use of electricity in consumer residential housing and commercial and industrial buildings in the United States including the negative effects the excessive and unnecessary energy has on the United States economy. The DOE’s Office of Building Technologies has determined that few emerging technologies repr ...