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The proposed low-SWaP PAPR technology improves the convenience, comfort, and protection level for respirators used in low-threat hazardous environments. Creare’s PAPR technology will be applicable to a variety of respiratory protection needs, including emergency escape, laboratory and field work in low-hazard conditions, and some combat and combat support activities. The PAPR will improve user f ...

Department of Defense personnel must wear respiratory protection continuously when deployed in regions with the danger of chemical or biological attack. Manufacturing respirators/masks using conventional molding methods limits the features that can be designed into the protection. Additive manufacturing provides an ideal approach for manufacturing respirators. Additive Manufacturing enables the ab ...

Hearing is critical to the warfighter: threats must be heard, identified, and localized, ideally while wearing a hearing protection device (HPD). Modern HPDs include technology to preserve the user’s auditory situational awareness (ASA), removing one of the largest barriers to HPD adoption. However, HPDs distort the acoustic cues used by the brain to localize the source of a sound. Warfighters m ...

Survivability of military rotorcraft is a critical mission objective requiring extensive testing and analysis for various hover and flight modes of transport. Typical analysis requires Electro-Optic/Infra-red (EO/IR) and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensing at a wide variety of environments, flight configurations, and sensor types and orientations using high-fidelity EO/IR and LIDAR modelin ...

The Department of the Navy (DON) is seeking ways to more rapidly deliver timely, relevant information to Sailor and Marine Warfighters. Problem Solutions (PS) proposed and was awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) by the Office of Naval Research to provide a task analysis, user needs and modeling, proof-of-concept design, technology demonstration and requirements analysis for ...

The Phase I program demonstrated improved acoustic performance (increased TVR +5dB) of Class V Cymbal Transducers constructed with QorTek TX101 textured piezoceramic material as compared to the same design built with traditional PZT4 piezoceramic. The Phase II program objectives are to continue scale up of QorTek TX101 textured ceramics and to further optimize the Cymbal Transducer design and fabr ...

Corvid Technologies, Inc. is pleased to offer the development of post intercept debris (PID) modeling software through a unique high-fidelity, physics-based process. Corvid’s unique predictive high-fidelity computational physics (HFCP) simulations tools, supercomputing facilities, and PID analysis experience will be leveraged to successfully model surface-to-air missile interceptor debris includ ...

There is a stated need by the Navy to develop and test practical autonomy systems for unmanned air vehicles operating onboard ship decks that leverage recent advances in miniaturization of computing, sensing, perception, and motion planning. The Navy-funded programs "Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System," SBIR Phase II "A System and Testing Methodology for Autonomous Ship-Based Resupply VTOL Air ...

The Repeatable Release Holdback Bar (RRHB) is critical to the safe and effective launch of carrier-based aircraft. The current RRHB is a purely mechanical device with no health-monitoring capabilities, and all RRHB usage records must be maintained manually to guide normal maintenance and calibration. RRHB maintenance is therefore schedule based, where verification, calibration, and end of life are ...

Creare is developing a heater utilizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that have high temperature uniformity and high optical transmission with low glare. We are creating a system capable of varying the effective sheet resistance across the windshield. The system produces a robust heater layer that can be flexed and easily scaled up to a production environment. In Phase I, we fabricated and tested optica ...