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In order to maintain acoustic advantage, submarine crews need to assess acoustic vulnerability for historical and planned tracks and own ship noisy evolutions. A TDA or TDAs that produce acoustic advantage and vulnerability overlays for the geographic plot are essential to this. Our Phase I effort will develop a MATLAB-based TDA tool engine that when provided with the required inputs (own ship, en ...

The QED team proposes to study an active motion compensation platform supported by a self-contained air cushion system. The Phase II study will evaluate the ability of the 'Ramp Motion Control Platform' (RMCP) to support and control the LMSR stern ramp through a range of elevated sea state conditions while maintaining its structural integrity within safe limits. The study will focus on the sensing ...

Phase II of this project will focus on developing, constructing and demonstrating the operation of an prototype Active Quiet Pillow for reducing interior noise in helicopter medical evacuation scenarios. The innovation is based on a strategic combination of active noise reduction (ANR) and passive treatment elements in a pillow style arrangement. Two performance objectives to be demonstrated inclu ...

In order to better protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, perimeter and passive defenses must be complemented with an active defense mechanism which elevates the risks, or costs, a potential attacker will face. The effectiveness of an active defense mechanism, however, is ultimately limited by its ability to detect threats fast, accurately, and reliably. For this Phase II project, we ...

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) acoustic mission planning is a very complex problem that needs to take into account many factors to achieve overall mission objectives. Blue Force capabilities and vulnerabilities, Red Force capabilities and vulnerabilities, ASW mission posture and priority, search time allocation, area size, and environmental factors all play a significant role in determining the best ...

ABSTRACT: Metron, Inc. (Metron) proposes a unique cyber security training environment which will be overlaid on training networks as a set of distributed host and network-based agents. These agents will communicate with an automated cyber war gaming engine to conduct mock cyber attack and defense in real-time on the training network in pursuit of instructor-configurable mission objectives. Soft ...

SBIR Topic A14-077 highlights a well-known issue that, to some degree, haunts all multi-cylinder internal combustion engines: imbalance in power output between cylinders. The underlying reasons range from geometrical differences that impact the airflow entering each cylinder to manufacturing differences between fuel injectors to an array of aging effects in fuel/air delivery systems and the cyli ...

Effective communications and data sharing between the platforms in a Carrier Strike Group (CSG) are critical for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), force protection, and situational awareness. The data links to convey this information must have low latency and high reliability. An effective communications architecture should employ multiple paths for critical ASW data to mitigate against limitations in ...

ITAC and its partners propose to develop and demonstrate a computational technology and methodology tool for the concurrent automated shaping of aft airframe and nozzle geometries to reduce tactical aircraft jet noise without any performance penalties. The proposed technologies will lead to an integrated tool which inherently maintains critical aerodynamic performance while reducing the noise gene ...

Metron and Next Century propose to design, to develop, and to demonstrate a proof-of-concept pattern recognition capability using open source data types ported to a spatial grid structure. The capability would identify areas of interest from the data and display the results as heat maps showing both current and future (predicted) states. Metron brings to the Phase I effort extensive experience in ...