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We will integrate the Phase I demonstrated physics, modeling, simulations, nondestructive evaluation and Materials Identification Reflectivity Kernel (MIRK) discrimination technologies into a prototype for detecting Special Hull Treatment (SHT) delamination in water for significant cost savings and risk mitigation for the Navy. The resultant technology transition will focus on VIRGINIA and COLUMBI ...

The primary goal of our Phase II effort will be to develop, deliver, and install one fully functional, 1.2 MW prototype capacitor charging converter to ONR, capable of continuously charging eighteen 325 kJ capacitor loads at up to ten charges per minute. In addition, aspects related to the manufacturing, costing and environmental qualification of future production converters must be understood and ...

Training simulations that currently support Small Unit Decision-Making (SUDM) training are laborious to configure and expensive to manage with live personnel, which results in training that is limited in scope. Current simulations require numerous “pucksters” to control simulated entities, driving up the manpower costs of conducting simulation-based training. To fulfill the roles of pucksters ...

Spatial perception in the cockpit remains paramount for safe and effective flight. Unfortunately, transitioning from aided to unaided flight has profound effects on pilots’ accuracy of spatial perception, increasing the cost of effective attention switching and reorientation to key environmental information, particularly an issue with limited visual cues in degraded conditions. Improved displays ...

Modern aviation platforms and systems must be able to provide sustained operations in a wide variety of environments. These systems must be able to operate for extended periods in severe weather and marine environments, undergo large temperature extremes (desert to arctic conditions) and dust environments, and are subject to high vibration and shock environments. The systems are often required to ...

FreEnt Technologies, Inc., A2Z Innovations, Inc., and the University of Alabama Aerospace Research Center (UAH/ARC) have teamed together to design, develop, and perform ground-based-demonstrations of a High-Speed Simultaneous Multiple Object Detection (HS-SMOD) System for MDA. The HS­SMOD system uses a simple but innovative technique of a passive fiber-optic grid and high-speed COTS opto-electr ...

As the United States makes strides in developing, testing, and deploying missile defense technology, the human element remains core to the integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) architecture. Human operators oversee the command and control at the system, component, and element level across a vast array of networked ground-, sea-, and space-based sensors and interceptors to eff ...

The current state of the art thermal battery technologies will not be able to meet future requirements that call for higher power and capacity with a smaller footprint. The principal avenue for increasing the capacity of thermal battery is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to ...

The Distributed Analysis Tool for Enterprise Monitoring (DATEM) is a distributed monitoring and alerting system that sets tripwires to detect deviations in system or operator behaviors that are important to mission success. During the first Phase II, Charles River Analytics developed and demonstrated the feasibility of a full-scope DATEM prototype. Our work culminated with a live demonstration in ...

Physical Sciences Inc. has successfully demonstrated the operational capability of a filament wound composite case designed to mitigate against slow cook-off, fast cook-off, bullet and fragment impact threats for solid rocket motor (SRM) systems. The implemented manufacturing, quality control and assurance processes enable production of small and large diameter motors to satisfy strategic and tact ...