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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this Phase II contract, Interphase Materials will further validate the efficacy of its antibiofouling surface treatment (AST) in preventing biofouling on OHIO-class submarine seawater cooled heat exchangers (HX). The AST is a molecularly thin surface treatment that binds to the substrate, protecting the surface from organism attachment. An intensive field study will be conducted, incorporating ...

Survivability of military rotorcraft is a critical mission objective requiring extensive testing and analysis for various hover and flight modes of transport. Typical analysis requires Electro-Optic/Infra-red (EO/IR) and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensing at a wide variety of environments, flight configurations, and sensor types and orientations using high-fidelity EO/IR and LIDAR modelin ...

This project will design and develop concepts to incorporate deep learning and natural language processing into mission and strike planning and re-planning. First, we will determine which functions in the current Joint Mission Planning System Maritime (JMPS-M) can be productively performed in a near-autonomous manner using (a) current JMPS-M methods, (b) methods from other Navy tactical decision a ...

QorTek/USSI’s proposal for Navy SBIR Topic N181-020 High Power, Low Frequency Textured PMN-PT Underwater Projector will focus is a new Hybrid Cymbal Transducer (HCT) design functioning in a new large form factor that is form-fit capable of being air-deployed in an A-Size Sonobuoy size. The central objective of the program is to demonstrate the underwater performance of the new optimized HCT desi ...