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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 ...

Navy needs UVA laser modules with three wavelengths with >3W fiber coupled power output. Princeton Optronics proposes a frequency doubling approach which they use for high efficiency frequency doubling of VCSEL output. This would work at UVA wavelengths with PPLN and LBO materials as frequency doublers. In phase I, Princeton Optronics wants to demonstrate frequency doubling at 400nm wavelength and ...

The proposed system comprises a turnkey magnetic anomaly detection system consisting of a high performance total field magnetometer, a vector magnetometer, an accelerometer, inputs for other sensors, plus software for heading error correction, noise suppression, dipole localization, and target tracking with low size, weight, power and cost.

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 ...

The Navy has developed an Advanced Flight Deck Lighting (AFDL) solution for DDG-1000. The AFDL is comprised of a suite of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lights powered and controlled from lighting device drivers called "FLEXDRIVERS." The control panel communicates commands to the FLEXDRIVERS over a network. The FLEXDRIVERS are in a centralized location away from the lights. Each FLEXDRIVER must be ind ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to empower farmers to capture a greater share of revenue from the marketing of their crops. Agriculture is a significant engine to the U.S. economy, and farming itself is vital to creating economically vibrant rural areas. Farmers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to capturing ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is in the development of a more efficient wind energy production technology. This technology will make wind energy more economically attractive, improve the energy security of the U.S., create hundreds of jobs and help to reduce coal and natural gas emissions by providing an alternative renewable energy source. An expected reduction in the le ...

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 ...