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Warfighters train and work in dangerous environments with extreme levels of impulse noise, continuous noise, cold, heat, humidity, altitude, and acceleration, while under stress and during strenuous activity. Continuous monitoring of potentially harmful exposure will enable the military to take action to protect warfighters’ health and improve their readiness by evaluating the effectiveness of p ...

SBIR Phase I I proposal to develop a light-weight composite run flat insert using materials and designs that yeilded >60% weight savings in SBIR Phase I.  Base effort is a Model Based Systems Engineering program to finalized design, configuration and materials selection and validate performance through a combination of dynamic modeling and simulation and full-scale test.  Wheel integration and f ...

Whole-body vibration is one of the factors causing military aircrew discomfort and pain during and after flight operations. Health risks are a concern after only a few hours of continuous flight at the seating positions on some aircraft.  Safe is proposing to develop a passive vibration isolator that isolates an entire helicopter crew seat at its floor attachments.  The isolator adjusts automati ...

"The Aerielle SONAR UAS Phase II proposal is in response to Topic 9.4.01, “Unmanned Aircraft System: Rapid Response for Natural Disaster” and proposes to improve and further develop the “Aerielle” with a Humminbird underwater sonar imaging commonly used by emergency responders. The goal of the Aerielle SONAR UAS was to perform SONAR scanning of underwater structures for hazardous debris id ...

Most infrared lasers emit light that is strongly polarized and require polarization-maintaining fibers to preserve the as-launched polarization state as it propagates through the fiber. While polarization maintaining fibers are commercially available in the visible, near infrared and short wavelength infrared, the silica glasses used for these fibers have extremely high optical loss in the mid inf ...

Volatilities in global weather and geo-political climate are increasing the frequency and magnitude of natural and manmade disasters. Providing rapid response to affected areas is critical to saving lives, as the immediate aftermath of a disaster presents the greatest risks to survivors and to first responders. The highly dynamic environments resulting from debris and infrastructure destruction cr ...

As the need for rapid response continues to rise, the Department of the Navy is seeking to automate many of its assets through the SBIR Unmanned Surface Vessel initiative to assist with HADR operations. In late May of 2020, Kairos Autonomi began work on Phase I of the HADR SBIR program. With the Kairos USV system, any standard Jon boat or small surface vessel that carries any standard outboard mar ...

The submarine communitys critical need for advanced payload and expanded flight-envelop capable small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is stalled by current tube launched UAS which have low endurance with low performance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) packages. Additionally, todays market tube-launched UAS are generally deployed from specific tube launching systems to collect ...

This Navy Phase I SBIR Program main objective was to scale up MER"s window technology to make large, strong, monolithic windows from spinel polycrystalline ceramic up to 18"x22"during Phase I and up to 21.5"x37"during Phase II. The window manufacturing concept pursued in this project presents a solution to the Navy"s need for durable, monolithic, infrared-transmitting sensor windows with target ar ...

The objective of this SBIR research project is to develop a treatment for interlaminar reinforcement that maintains the composite"s in-plane properties. Because the interlaminar region is a critical component of the composite and no current technology adequately addresses its weaknesses, this research has the potential for major commercial and technological impacts. The current technology gap to a ...