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The total defense related corrosion costs are estimated at $20 billion of the total annual U.S. cost estimates of greater than $300 billion. Much of the costs are associated with the maintenance of metal materials; 20% of the estimated corrosion-related costs involve scraping and repainting steel structures. Because of the staggering costs stemming from corrosion of steel infrastructure, there i ...

Generators play a key role in a wide range of military and commercial applications. Especially for aerospace applications, increased power generation with reduced size and weight is a continuous design objective that taxes life limiting components such as bearings, windings, diode assembles, and rectifiers in already harsh operating environments. Both time and money are lost as generator failures ...

The Metron team, consisting of Metron, Inc., Mr. John Kettelle and Ketron Optimization, proposes to develop a secure, web-based system, which we call the Computerized Third Party (CTP) system, that would enable multiple government, military and commercial parties to negotiate a set of issues by providing value functions and constraints on those issues privately to a centralized server. The CTP alg ...

JRM proposes a novel context-dependent, signature-based approach to improve the automation and quality of material-classification of imagery and arbitrary n-channel remote-sensed data. In the Phase I, JRM will design three key components: (1) an automated N-channel signature-predictive material classification algorithm, (2) a pixel-material spatial-correlation refinement algorithm and (3) an itera ...

AFRL/RWGI seeks algorithms to maximally exploit the capabilities of emerging multi-resolution foveal sensors that can flexibly allocate their resolution to focus on multiple targets of interest without sacrificing overall situational awareness. SET is pleased to offer extensible solutions based on our proven capabilities to automatically detect, acquire, and track multiple targets and decades of ...

The objective of the proposed BMDO Phase II SBIR Program is to develop processing methodologies for the fabrication and development of photonic crystal (PC) devices and electro-optic (EO) materials for use in the near ultaviolet (UV) to far infrared (IR) optical wavelength regime, for both next generation DoD systems and commercial use. Photonic crystals (PCs) are a class of periodic metallic, di ...

Tao Systems proposes to develop an adaptive accelerometer for obtaining high-resolution measurements for an extreme dynamic range. Specifically, the accelerometer will provide 60dB resolution from 0.001 g to 100,000 g through through the integration of tailored MEMS accelerometer devices in an Active Sensor Circuit (ASC) configuration. The effort will require optimization of each accelerometer dev ...

The objective of this program is to develop a wide field of view spectral imaging sensor to support theater surveillance and intelligence. The AHS operates in the Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) band and provides day/night spectral target cueing, geolocation and identification of hot battlefield threats. Currently deployed EO sensors can measure broadband MWIR signals, but are incapable of providing adva ...

SCOPE PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING CONCEPT FOR THE REALTIME DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF HF EMITTERS AND THEIR PLATFORMS. THIS INVESTIGATION WILL SPECIFICALLY EVALUATE HF EMITTER CHARACTERISTICS AND PHENOMENA OF POTENTIAL INTEREST FOR IDENTIFICATION. SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS WILL BE DEFINED TO EXPLOIT EMITTER AND PLATFORM IDENTIFIABLE SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS ...

The U.S. Navy has experienced numerous technical challenges with the current fastener system for the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft’s insulation blankets. The most common type of attachment device is a bonded-stud, which is permanently attached to the composite airframe structure. These studs are prone to breakage from the stress and shear loads created by blanket attachment and misalignment, ...