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Searching for street parking, a behavior known as cruising for parking, leads to excess congestion and pollution. Many recent smart parking interventions have attempted to address this issue, but the problem of effectively detecting and measuring cruising remains largely unsolved. The goal of this work is to develop methods to detect and measure cruising for parking and its effects on congestion u ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation completed a Phase I SBIR contract for the United States Army during the work period June 1November 30th, 2015. During the Phase I effort, ETC began development of a SO modeling tool referred to as OBSERVER. OBSERVER is designed to predict what a pilot would feel or perceive in response to a given set of sensory inputs. This tool can aid the Army during accident ...

There is a critical need for replacement of viscose processed rayon-based carbon fibers for use in Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) nozzle designs. Rayon based fibers have unique thermal-structural properties which makes them an excellent ablative material in nozzle liners; but, due to undesirable processing conditions, there is no longer a domestic commercial supplier of these fibers. This proposal prese ...

Nokomis will develop the prototype for a radio technology which will substantially enhance the ability of warfighters operating under the canopy to establish and maintain reliable communications. The approach will enhance Nokomis existing receiver sensitivity technologies with a novel integrated front end module and optimized software algorithms specifically designed to mitigate the conditions ass ...

Degraded visual environment (DVI) presents a challenge for helicopter pilotage, particularly in close proximity to potential hazards such as vegetation, poles, wires, buildings, vehicles, personnel, equipment, nearby terrain, other aircraft, or ship superstructures. To safely negotiate these hazards, the aircrew must maintain a continuous awareness of the environment that can include both static a ...

PiAC is developing the Aerial Embedded Reconfigurable System (ARES) flight demonstrator Combat Medic UAC platform for Phase III flight demonstration. The ARES is an innovative modular multi-mission vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) comprised of a common Flight Module and interchangeable Mission Payload Modules. The ARES provides unprecedented military utility because ...

In this Phase II project, we will develop longer and higher quality crystalline cladding and crystalline core optical fibers by modifying, improving, and optimizing the unique crystalline cladding and crystalline core fiber growing system and process developed in the Phase I stage. The longer and higher quality crystalline cladding and crystalline core optical fiber offers the capabilities of a hi ...

Under the proposed effort, PSI will continue to develop a novel pmmW imaging technology developed under a prior Navy program to realize dense form factor arrays. This technology is based on an optical upconverted distributed aperture technology that can make large effective apertures in low SWaP form factors thereby maximizing achievable resolution. This sensor technology has already reached TRL 6 ...

The primary goal of this SBIR Phase II proposal is to provide the Army with a dramatically enhanced ability to accurately predict IR emissions and radiant heat transfer for missile plume and missile base heating applications. Radiant heat transfer to the missile base environment from afterburning plume flow will have a large impact on the design of thermal shielding to ensure survivability over th ...

Advanced composite material systems are vital to the development of lightweight, multi-functional Army missile systems. In addition to reducing the weight of the structure, composite materials provide the ability to expand the function of the structure by tailoring stiffness and strength characteristics for numerous applications such as solid rocket motor cases, missile airframes, missile guidance ...