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Over 300 HF RADARs worldwide are producing ocean surface data that is used in oil spill response, search & rescue, vessel traffic management, and research. In the U.S. there are 100+ systems supplying real-time data to the Coast Guard, NOAA IOOS, OR&R and other operational groups. To provide the highest quality data to stakeholders, systems should be calibrated by measuring the receive antenna p ...

Oscilla Power, Inc. (OPI) is developing a utility-scale wave energy harvester that is enabled by low cost and readily-available magnetostrictive alloys. T his device, which utilizes no moving parts, has the potential to deliver predictable quantities of electric power to coastal utilities, industrial users, and remote facilities at costs competitive with coal or gas. The Phase I project demonstra ...

Report developed under SBIR contract for topic OSD09-C05. SCC of aluminum is of particular concern in the chloride containing environments that are typical for naval operations and is increasingly investigated as part of the system design process for naval aircraft structures and subsystems. However, modern test methods that determine KIscc of aluminum require expensive long duration testing (10,0 ...

The vast and ever-increasing amount of networked information available creates a growing need for information processing systems that distribute decision making rather than centralize data. Under this program, Prism Informatix is developing a novel processing framework based on a rigorous theory of distributed cooperative (team) decision making under uncertainty called Distributed Hypothesis Test ...

Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) in Iraq and Afghanistan has often been conducted remotely from the point of injury (POI) due to vulnerability of ambulances to attack. To improve this situation, the Heavy Armored Ground Ambulance (HAGA) has recently been deployed. However, no HAGAs have been available for stateside training. To remedy this, STI proposes the Combat Medic Simulator (CMS), employing STI ...

Sand flies are carriers of Leishmania infection (leishmaniasis), a disease common to tropical and subtropical countries. Millions of people are infected every year, and thousands of fatalities are attributed to this disease. American military personnel and their allies currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan are being infected with leishmaniasis. An effective strategy to prevent the spread of ...

The primary objective of the MUOS Modeling and Evaluation Environment (M2E2) tool-kit is to develop the capability that allows for accurate technical and operational insights into end-to-end performance of DoD"s Mobile User Object System (MUOS) and its interoperability with other JTRS networks. M2E2 will support the performance evaluation of MUOS networks as well as performance of supported applic ...

The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) integration activities held during the summer of 2010 at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama and at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico demonstrated the need for tools to support JTRS radios and the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) network. DataSoft and SecureComm, two JTRS HMS subcontractors, have partnered to develop tools to support ta ...

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 ...

As stated in the SBIR call for this topic, the need to improve communication links with airborne platforms is of paramount importance. The Link-16 waveform is currently the dominant waveform for the airborne link, and thus it stands to reason that improving the performance of the Link-16 waveform (in terms of both hardware and receiver processing) is vital and urgent. As such, TrellisWare proposes ...