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The proposed effort is based on the exploitation of several concepts studied and evaluated under Phase I contract for improving the use of Red Phosphorus (RP) by retarding flame size and temperature as well as reducing incendiary properties of RP pots/devices and phosphine generation in storage without reducing obscuration efficiency. The proposed concepts have included burning RP under fuel rich ...

This project aims to develop a low-cost millimeter-wave (mmW) imaging system for ground vehicles, to operate in combination with a long-wave infrared (LWIR)camera. Such a system will mitigate the challenges of driving in degraded visual environments (DVE) including night time, fog, dust, or smoke by providing real-time image of the vehicle surrounding independent from the presence of naturally occ ...

Design and develop a handheld robotics and armament controller component that can receive information from multiple manned and unmanned platforms/sensors, develop multi-platform coordinated mission plans, develop real-time dynamic platform plan/updates for each of the platforms utilizing a single integrated OCU to coordinate multiple platforms. Our OCU component will take advantage of state-of-the ...

MaxPower believes that the introduction and successful development of a liquid ammonia-based battery system utilizing a lithium metal anode would be able to meet the power requirements for medium caliber fuze applications, especially the IRAP grenade application. During Phase I development, we have demonstrated 3 V load voltages through the use of a lithium metal anode and superconcentrated electr ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

The objectives of the proposed effort include propellant enhancement demonstrated by higher thrust, impulse and higher projectile velocity and range as well as HE enhancement resulting into higher lethality based on blast and impulse enhancement. The effort will eventually develop data demonstrating promise and delivery of 1kg material samples for further evaluation by the Army. The proposed effor ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is confounded by noise and damage in real world documents. Preprocessing documents to remove noise will improve the performance of current OCR software. Nokomis has demonstrated technology that improves Word Error Rate (WER) by performing image denoising and preprocessing prior to OCR. Nokomis will mature this technology and integrate it with the Army’s Machin ...

Army defense technologies for high speed threat intercept increasingly rely on vehicle maneuverability through both aerodynamic and thrust augmentation. Similarly, threats have relied on equally maneuvering defenses to avoid intercept. Thus, it is in the interest of any defense system to target the threat at any point in the battlespace where it is most vulnerable, potentially resulting in interce ...

There is a critical need for replacement of viscose processed rayon-based carbon fibers for use in Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) nozzle designs. Rayon based fibers have unique thermal-structural properties which makes them an excellent ablative material in nozzle liners; but, due to undesirable processing conditions, there is no longer a domestic commercial supplier of these fibers. This program presen ...

The primary objective of the A-WUPC Phase II Sequential program is to enhance warfighter lethality by leveraging innovative technology to decrease the size and weight of mission critical power electronics carried by the Soldier. The proposed system aims to provide more power, in smaller/lighter packages, with improved ruggedness and reliability. By continuing the evolution of the Warfighter Univer ...