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Future hypersonic vehicles will be required to fly extended, long term trajectories where the bodies must exhibit high lift-to-drag (L/D) ratios. The need for reduced drag means that the nosetips and leading edges must have small radii, shallow wedge angles, and be erosion resistant. Desirable dimensions include a nose radius on the order of 0.040 inch and a wedge half angle of about 3. This radiu ...

Piasecki Aircraft (PiAC) proposes to continue development and testing efforts of the Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel USA has been developed to support the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer mission requirements and contains sensors an ...

Typical Avionics Networks Requirements include; Many Different I/O Types,- RF, Analog, Digital, Discrete & Timing Strobes,- EMI Problems in Mixed Signal Environment, Many Different Network Media / Connectors Coaxial, TSP, Copper Cable, F/O, Backplane Traces/Vias, Many High Bandwidth/High Frequency Channels Avionics Modules are Connector Bound, Still Desire 2-Level Line-Replaceable Modules, Sensors ...

Sea mines are a serious threat to U.S. strategic interests in key regions of the world. Increasingly sophisticated, relatively inexpensive, and widely proliferated sea mines present difficult challenges for the Navy to guarantee access to critical regions. Airborne LIDAR systems counter these asymmetric threats, but these early LIDAR sensor systems have availability, cost, reliably, and performanc ...

The proposed Phase 2 technical effort will leverage the success of the Phase 1 effort and develop and extensively test robust signal processing techniques that consistently extract target features over a large range of operating conditions using recently collected radar data from a Navy field test. The measurement of target length, number of masts, and mast position are among the most basic and de ...

The proposed Phase 2 technical effort will leverage the success of the Phase 1 effort and develop adaptive clutter equalization CFAR (ACE-CFAR) techniques that are mode adaptive at the PRI level and handle multiple range resolutions. Conventional CFAR detection processing has difficulty in heterogeneous clutter (i.e., maritime clutter) because the fixed data size windowing is not likely to be well ...

In this Phase II SBIR project, Daniel H. Wagner Associates (DHWA), with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Spatial Integrated Systems (SIS) as our subcontractors, will develop a high definition Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) modeling and simulation (M&S) system, initially focused on the DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Ves ...

Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00014-11-C-0332Expansion of the Advanced Breakwater and Causeway Ultramarine System (ABACUS) research and development work accomplished under the Phase II Basic and Options 1 & 2 programs to full scale prototype systems and large scale demonstration models for both Seabasing and ship-to-shore logistics support operations. The ABACUS fam ...

The Quantum Engineering Design, Inc. (QED) ‘Mission Module Handling Device’ (MMHD) is designed to meet the Navy’s requirements of minimizing the deck point loading while lifting and omni-directionally maneuvering ISO containers and ‘Twenty foot Equivalent Units’ (TEUs) aboard both the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) ‘Freedom’ and ‘Independence’ class of vessel. Special attention is pa ...

The U.S. Navy requires a new Environmental Wideband Acoustic Receiver and Source (EWARS) sensor to facilitate the gathering of environmental data from Navy ASW platforms. The newly developed EWARS sensor will deployable in shallow and deep environments, and be capable of operating over a broad spectrum of frequencies. EWARS will also provide calibration accuracy, digital uplink format/precision, a ...