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The S-351 mini-sub is a prototype of the Dry Combat Submersible (DCS). This prototype was established as a means of risk reduction prior to a full commitment to the DCS program. Both of these platforms have an operational need to transit with minimum operator fatigue safely to a pre-defined point and covertly deploy and retrieve SEALS. To meet these operational needs, these platforms require upgra ...

ABSTRACT: DZYNE Technologies, Inc., proposes a Phase II SBIR effort to continue development of MONARCH, a Mobile Onboard Nexus for Autonomy and Radical Computation Handling. MONARCH shall provide an elastic, embedded computing capability for hosting operationally-relevant classes of software applications onboard manned and unmanned systems through the interoperation of distributed, networked compu ...

US Navy vessels and their components and equipment experience severe environmental conditions, leading to a level of unacceptable corrosion through a combination of sea water exposure, heat, humidity, UV exposure, and general inaccessibility for continual maintenance. Copper brush electroplating is the standard repair technique for many Navy corrosion repair applications, however this process is p ...

Future all-electric warships demand improved electrical power density, conversion efficiency and system reliability. High Power converters are required for applications such as electromagnetic rail gun, EMALS, sensors and propulsion on comparable displacement, future ship platforms (see Figure 1). Development of 6500 V/100 A SiC MOSFET based modules, with a cost structure of < $45/Ampere are requi ...

The objective of this Phase II technical effort is to extend the software technologies developed in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) N05-53 through improving and maturing Informedb Enterprise with enhanced roadmap capabilities to provide a dynamic engineering, planning, graphing, visualization, and decision making assessment tool and to demonstrate its applicability to a variety of Progra ...

The proposed DTIM effort develops new methods for communications management in specific distributed settings. It is focused on managing uncertainty under constrained communications links.

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) has the potential to significantly reduce operating costs through improved equipment management and more informed scheduling of maintenance activities. Sensing hardware can monitor equipment health, apply diagnostic algorithms to evaluate an asset’s current state, and make projections for how the system will perform if damage is detected and tracked. For maintai ...

Parabon’s Snapshot DNA Phenotyping System, which stems from an SBIR Phase II project, predicts ancestry, pigmentation, and face shape from forensic DNA samples, giving investigators information about suspects or unidentified remains they could not have obtained previously. In December 2014, Snapshot was made commercially available, and since that time has been used in over 100 criminal cases. It ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards a more integrated design approach that efficiently utilizes all available space. In fact, to accommodate limited space constraints many commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems will need to be replaced by custom designed and fabricated components. For radiofrequency (RF) electronic systems, this will requ ...

Under the proposed effort, PSI will continue to develop a novel pmmW imaging technology developed under a prior Navy program to realize dense form factor arrays. This technology is based on an optical upconverted distributed aperture technology that can make large effective apertures in low SWaP form factors thereby maximizing achievable resolution. This sensor technology has already reached TRL 6 ...