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With the need for learning objects to be shared, reused, referenced, and repurposed by a variety of geographically-dispersed stakeholders, it is imperative to provide access control, authentication and identify management services within Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS). In particular, these requirements need to be satisfied by the Navy's Integrated ...

The purpose of this SBIR is to validate the utility of, and design, a Mission Package Infrastructure (MPI) that will enable modular development, rapid integration, and migration across multiple platforms, of USW components and capabilities. A framework providing such benefits would increase the effectiveness and utility of USW capabilities built using the Peer Review Process (PRP) and Advanced Pro ...

The complex structural and assembly design of the F-35 requires precision hole drilling in areas with limited human access. Current drilling methods are limited to small, handheld, right-angle power-feed drill motors and manual, non-power-feed drill motors, which may compromise operator safety and hole quality. Metis Design Corporation (MDC) has developed an initial concept for a right-angle powe ...

A powerful and rugged 1-inch diameter drilling machine includes independently controlled drill and feed motors. Electrostatic motor technology is employed for creating high torque in a compact size. Commercial ion implantation techniques are used to create highly charged regions on disk rotors. The controller is an attached module that employs a variable frequency control algorithm. The algori ...

The Navy requires development of enabling technologies that can significantly extend the range of 802.11 Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) for the maritime environment. By adapting high sensitivity cryogenically cooled electronics, the superior interference rejection of high temperature superconducting (HTS) band-pass and notch filters, along with the significant gain of standard ship-fit INMARSAT parabo ...

DoD is moving quickly toward Network Centric Warfare and distributed enterprise services provided via Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) as a means of providing Net-Centric capabilities and front end sensor networking. Some early candidates have already emerged that are capable of providing many of the required services and performance. Numerous requirements and directives are forcing this evolu ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop and demonstrate a sensor technology for non-contact thickness measurements of freshly applied wet marine paint. This sensor is intended for eventual integration into APACTS (Automated Paint, Application, Containment, and Treatment System), which has been developed by Oceaneering Marine Systems. The sensor will use recent advances in ultrashort puls ...

Sealants are currently applied manually to aircraft which is a time-consuming process that results in unwanted variation in sealant thickness and quality, making a controlled and reliable automated application method extremely advantageous. We propose novel technology for spraying to deliver a controlled high-speed jet of sealant droplets, which will impact and adhere to the surface to be coated. ...

Proposed is the use of breakthrough technique to develop a TeraByte solid state mass memory (SSMM)for network-centric avionic applications. The memory portion will be implemented with 16 high multiple die stacks. Transfer rates of 250MBytes/S are achieved by a novel scheme for interleaving banks of NAND flash chips. The proposed SSMM is a dual port unit, supporting PCI Express and legacy 1553 port ...

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) paradigm has become a key component of the Navy Open Systems Architecture (OA) initiative. The finalization of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification by the Object Management Group has solidified a common approach for performing data centric distributed computing for real-time applications. However, there are potential latencies induced in the data exch ...