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Ingestion of silicate particles into aircraft gas turbine (GT) engines remains a serious hazard to both commercial and military aircraft. Helicopters and low-flying fixed-wing aircraft in desert environments are exposed to airborne sand particulate. Both commercial and military aircraft can be exposed to runway dust as well as high-altitude volcanic ash. These silicate particulates present a hazar ...

It is well known that gas-turbine powered aircraft operating in brown-out conditions can ingest a significant amount of particles leading to reduced engine performance, a reduction in time between maintenance and increased safety concerns. As such, it is critical to be able to accurately model the impact of ingested particles in engines for both maintenance purposes and in the design of new, more ...

High temperature jet plumes emanating from aircraft engines and missiles produce effects that are of interest for threat detection, environmental noise, and engine development purposes. Optical and infrared emissions from plumes are sources of light and heat signatures, respectively, that can potentially be used for tracking or targeting vehicles in flight.  Acoustic noise from jet plumes can pot ...

Attollo Engineering will develop a zoom capable ultra-compact lightweight MWIR camera based off its commercial MWIR Griffin-HD8 camera with a zoom capable Metalens optic. The imager format is 1280 x 720 on an 8 micron pitch, among the smallest size in industry weighing just 240 grams without the optical lens, and was designed for small battery-operated Group 1 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The ...

Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

Marine fouling has always been a significant problem to manage. All the solutions have associated costs and additional maintenance. If the fouling is left untreated, fuel costs increase, and maneuverability is reduced. Eventually the ship must be docked and cleaned leading to availability and cleaning costs. Alternatively, the hull and other components below the water line can be coated or imbued ...

In response to Navy STTR topic N23A-T010, Interphase Materials (IPM) in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, propose the development of INTELLIPHASE, a sensor fusion and data analysis and software package, for the monitoring and prediction of the antifouling lifespan of TBTO in sonar radar domes. Sonar domes are necessary for optimal sonar performance, but require Tri ...

Areté and its teaming partner the University of Arizona (UofA) will develop a software tool that transforms sensor and metadata from a given sensor system into realistic synthetic data as if it were collected by a different sensor system. The exponential rise in available data from a multitude of sensor systems has driven commercial and academic entities to achieve significant innovations in arti ...

Undersea target recognition from sensor systems onboard unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) play a critical role in the US Naval strategies and mission capabilities. Machine Learning provides a game-changing opportunity for improved Automated Target Recognition (ATR), but current attempts remain limited due to a lack of adequate training data. ML-based ATR algorithms are statistics-based systems; ...

Effective tools for evaluating the proficiency of warfighters at employing complex systems in an operational setting are essential to ensure operational capability within the Navy and other branches of the DoD. Generating exams with answer keys is a time-consuming process, made more difficult by the complexity of both the systems and the operational employment of those systems.  The burden is fur ...