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The US Army, as well as other national military services, requires new and innovative reactive materials to produce next generation munitions. There exists a need for scalable and adaptable warheads that provide user-selectable energy output, as well as selectable modes of operation, such as fragmentation, penetration and blast. General Sciences, Inc. (GSI) is demonstrating the feasibility of appl ...

Workload and stress are variable and unpredictably changing due to the dynamics of the military environment where the large amount of information available may overwhelm human operators thus leading to poor quality decisions. Phase II of the ANTICO project will develop techniques to support the operator in cognitively compliant ways. In particular, the project extends the development of a general ...

As robots become more widely employed in tactical operations and gain greater autonomy for doing simple tasks, they must become more integrated into the processes of mission planning and management. This integration will come by means of standardized command and control interfaces mandated by the DoD and developed by the SAE AS-4 JAUS standards activity and proposed and upcoming SAE AS-4 standards ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop an innovative thin-multilayer setback piezoelectric generator (TM-SPG) to provide inertial harvested power for spin stabilized small-and-medium-caliber fuzing. The novel device introduces the key benefit of the thin-multilayer piezoelectric technology to meet the current needs of fuze electronics (i.e. high capacitance, low output voltage and high energ ...

Our proposal involves the formulation and development of innovative technical approaches for accurately simulating the transient power-on separation event for a multi stage, supersonic/hypersonic missile. As part of this Phase II effort we will undertake the development and validation of a time dependent, self adaptive, overset mesh approach for handling the complex grids needed for missile stage ...

Our Phase II program will provide for the design, fabrication, and testing of skin friction gauges and force measurement modules that will operate in a hypersonic scramjet propulsive flowpath with hydrogen/air combustion. Gauges will be installed in the CUBRC Combustion Duct and a test matrix performed to demonstrate operability as well as to provide detailed data for the validation of CFD codes. ...

This SBIR Phase II proposal to the Department of Defense, Army, requests funding for Innova Dynamics to optimize and scale up the Innlay-based IonArmour Next Generation technology for deployment, providing the highest levels of safe, cost-effective, continuous antimicrobial protection for military personnel and materials. IonArmour NG is initially targeting application to US Army Deployable Medica ...

The Modular Intelligent Manipulation system with Intuitive Control (MIMIC) will significantly increases the effectiveness of robotic manipulators by giving the operator of a robotic arm the sensation that it is his or her arm actually manipulating an object. As the operator moves his hand, the robot arm will mimic the operators arm/hand movements. As resistance is experienced at the end-effector, ...

The use of multi-functional composite laminates, including lightweight composite panels, is increasing on U.S. Army tactical vehicles. These advanced polymer matrix composite materials offer the potential to reduce the weight of next generation Army tactical platforms, as well as provide increased ballistic protection along with structural performance. However, weight savings can only be realized ...

The military faces a challenge with regard to temporary bridge inspection, as most existing monitoring solutions are designed around the monitoring of permanent bridge structures. These temporary structures are now being used in semi-permanent installations and are experiencing loads and cycles far above their originally designed limits. There is a need to provide a system for these bridges to aut ...