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The advancement of systems requiring high power (megawatt level) in a short amount of time (seconds to minutes) is increasing, and there is currently no reliable energy storage and release system to complement these technologies on the Navys ships. Traditional flywheels are heavy with low tip speeds and often have to be built in place. Creare proposes an advanced carbon nanotube (CNT) flywheel for ...

Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) threats in a harbor environment present a complex, and in certain ways contradictory, set of detection and classification issues. The threats may come in the form of highly aggressive behaviors with associated kinematics and classification signatures, as well as passive loitering with different kinematics and classification opportunities. One obvious modality to c ...

Voice communication with military divers is challenged by their extreme operating environment and limited by inadequate performance from their legacy communications equipment. Bottomside, the divers are subject to extreme pressures, mixed breathing gases, and high ambient noise. Clean pickup and delivery of voice would be challenging under these conditions even with ideal communications equipment. ...

The LED Lighting Fixture Control Module (LFCM) will be the next generation of LED lighting control capability replacing the current C3I LED Flex Driver Control Module (LFDM). C3Is Configurable Distributed LED Driver (CD-LD) technology will meet the LFCM requirements, providing performance enhancements and resulting in significantly reduced installation, operating, maintenance, and configuration co ...

As U.S. military emphasizes Information Dominance and advanced Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence capabilities in its operation, smart lighting control for specific applications and environments, including lighting for surface aviation and amphibious assault ships launch and recover aircraft whose pilots typically use Night Vision Devices for night operations, becomes increasingly imp ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to accelerate the adoption of data intensive precision agriculture, increasing yields while decreasing farm inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. This projects removes the software bottleneck (time and labor) in processing large aerial surveys taken by Unmanned Aerial Systems, ena ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project has several facets. From the standpoint of scientific understanding, using a reverberation chamber with time-varying and non-homogeneous reflection from the walls is a new concept, and successful understanding of this technology may impact a variety of applications. More specifically for wireless device testing, the fact that the most accurat ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is (1) the significant improvement in fertility rates among infertile couples and especially for patients suffering from non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), which is found in 1% of the male population and in up to 20% of male infertility cases and is associated with non-measurable levels of sperm in the ejaculate. Automated systems to collect ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is in the development of a transformative carbon dioxide sequestration technology that can convert carbon dioxide and water directly into gasoline fuels with unprecedented efficiency, with sunlight as the only energy input. The technology is based on earth abundant metals as photo-catalysts, is environment- friendly, and potentially can be us ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project lies in an ability to provide information regarding human movement in a way that is less expensive, more robust, and more accurate than existing methods, in order to improve human health and performance. The project advances several technology areas including ?smart? wearable sensors, mobile assistive technology, and multi-sensor networked de ...