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The Navy has challenged the Small Business community to develop an improved skirt system for air cushion vehicles which reduces total ownership cost by increasing product life, decreasing manufacturing costs as well as installation and maintenance time, and improving reparability. The current system is primarily comprised of vulcanized polychloroprene rubber bonded to chemically coated nylon fabri ...

Modern DoD applications are benefiting from the proliferation of EO/IR sensor technology. As imagers become cheaper and smaller, they are being more widely deployed for a variety of scenarios. This trend is exemplified by the Navys Future Targeting System (FTS), which will provide laser designation, laser spot imaging, and some target location functions in a single 5.5-pound unit, replacing discre ...

Vadum will develop and simulate a new beamforming protocol for Distributed Communications and Electronic Warfare (DCEW) that will implement distributed TX and RX beamforming algorithms between a cluster of nodes, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and cooperative or uncooperative receivers. The Vadum approach uses an innovative Master-Slave architecture employing multiple input multiple outpu ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop low-cost high-speed manufacturing process to produce high performance capacitor film with high dielectric breakdown strength, high thermal conductivity, low leakage current, and high operation temperature.

In this SBIR project, Polymics proposes to develop high temperature high energy density film capacitors using Polymics proprietary class of advanced high temperature polymers and their nanocomposites with dielectric constant (K) higher than 3, thermal stability above 200 C, and dielectric loss less than 1%, to meet the targets of a 95% or higher charge/discharge efficiency to 400 volts/micron at 1 ...

This effort will leverage commercial wearable sensors to tailor physical fitness training to increase Marines physical fitness and readiness. Marines are not often given a clear set of protocols for exercises, nor given adequate tools to monitor their fitness levels. Part of this work is to align infantry task demands against physiological measures, then identify a set of devices suitable for main ...

The Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) family of terminals are utilized by the US armed forces and their allies for command, control, communications, computation, and intelligence (C4I) operations. The US Navy is currently transitioning from the MIDS-Low Volume Terminal (LVT) to the MIDS-Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). MIDS-JTRS allows for increased capabilities, however, t ...

Vigilant Cyber Systems, Inc. (VCS) has designed a Cyber Battle Damage Assessment Tool (CyBDAT) to quantify the probabilities associated with Computer Network Attack (CNA), Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) and Electronic Attack (EA) and allow for the direct comparison of cyber-attacks and kinetic attacks in mission planning. In Phase I VCS completed the high level design of CyBDAT, completed the ...

The Windlift Man Portable Wind Energy System (MPWES) will produce 6 kW of renewable energy while weighing only 440 lbs. The renewable energy density (W/lb.) will be approximately seven times greater than a state of the art solar system, as represented by the GREENS system which is currently deployed by the USMC. Significant optimizations are possible in future design spirals that will allow the sy ...

Aerial refueling is a mission-critical component of Navy operations. Refueling is made difficult by the interference between the tanker and receiver aircraft. The receiver aircraft may experience various forms of disturbances during approach, stressing the skills of a pilot or the control system of an autonomous vehicle. Current flight simulation capabilities are unable to reproduce the impact of ...