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The goal of this project was to help reduce or eliminate the potentially catastrophic effects of a failed hose/drogue system during aerial refueling. Failures can arise in certain situations when the receiver aircraft engages the hose at too high of a speed cause a wave to be generated in the hose. This wave reflects off the reel and creates a whipping motion at the drogue with the potential to br ...

Autonomous landing of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle (VTUAV), such as Fire Scout, on the deck of a moving ship requires a precise and accurate ship-relative navigation solution. The existing automated landing system, consisting of ship-based radar equipment and airborne transponder equipment that utilizes round-trip Radio Frequency (RF) characteristics to determine relative po ...

IR transparent windows and domes on aircrafts and missiles often provide other functionality, such as conductivity, through the use of coatings or metallic grids. For visible applications, conductive coatings like indium tin oxide are available; however, these coatings become highly absorbing at longer wavelengths. For MWIR applications, conductivity is generally provided by metal grids. Unfortuna ...

Efficient, effective team communication is a force multiplier in operations and an accelerant to training. It is the foundation upon which leaders build situational awareness to support timely decision making, and the mechanism through which leaders train and assess their teams. Team communication training is particularly important as the Marine Corps transitions from a culture in which small unit ...

Image processing methods have been studied and implemented for the vehicle classification over the past decades. The most dominant approach is the use of vehicle dimension, which requires complex processes of sensor calibration as the vehicle dimensions shown in the imagery are heavily dependent on the camera’s field of view. In general, video systems have physical disadvantages related to the ...

In Phase I we have developed an integrated software and hardware solution to identify personnel who have a natural aptitude for a cognitive skill. The goal of Phase II is to develop a screening tool by expanding previous multi-dimensional approach developed in Phase I and predict vigilance skill performance and aptitude for enlisted classification and officer career path aptitude assessments. The ...

Triton Systems, Inc., in partnership with the National Aerospace Leadership Initiative (NALI) funded Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), is developing the concurrent use of multiple sensor types and methods to collect laser drilling process data. This data is then processed by a specially designed integrated control system to generate a real-time, bi-modal breakthrough detection (BB ...

The overarching objective is to provide a deployable hybrid renewable energy system that reduces fuel consumption and Warfighter vulnerability in theater. Fielded systems suffer from inefficiency, weight, bulkiness, high cost and inadequate autonomous control capabilities. HDMs team, including partners ZeroBase Energy and Raytheon, proposes the Adaptive Hybrid Power System (AHPS), featuring high p ...

Our Phase II effort has these major thrusts: * Implementing the U2VIS architecture and UI framework designed in Phase I, with third-party UXV software integration. * Designing interfaces and data models for planning, executing, and assessing *multivariant missions*, that is, missions that include primary and contingency components * Implementing the multivariant mission designs in the U2VIS protot ...

This SBIR aims to develop an efficient approach for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of submersible Navy composites. This research leverages hardware previously developed by Metis Design Corporation (MDC), including distributed digitization hardware, piezoelectric-based damage-localization sensors, and a data accumulation hub. Collaborating with Goodrich EPP (now UTC Aerospace), during Phase I M ...