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Marine Corps Commanders are responsible for consuming, understanding, and acting upon vast amounts of operational data. However, current Command and Control (C2) systems overwhelm Commanders by presenting this data in too much detail, and they lack intuitive interfaces for exploring and querying the data. The resulting cognitive overload and inefficiency increases the risk that Commanders will ove ...

We suggest developing a miniaturized survey system which can meet the current IPADS requirements with significant reductions in size/weight. The current weight/volume is 135 lb./6300 inch-cube. The core is Navigational Module (INS) that weighs >50 lb. and volume of 1200 inch-cube, based on Ring Laser Gyro technology. The main goal of the study is a replacement of the above sensor cluster with a ne ...

Sealed suppressors are routinely used by the U.S. Marines, both in the field and on practice ranges. Suppressors are critical not only to help obscure the location of a sniper, but also to protect the shooter from hearing damage. Sealed suppressors are susceptible to significant fouling that degrades their accuracy and that can lead to failure of the suppressor, particularly when they are used at ...

Triton Systems and its team members propose to develop an innovative, energy efficient, small human transportable field refrigeration unit for field medical operations. The unit will be used to keep temperature sensitive human blood products, vaccines, and reagents within an optimum temperature range to ensure long term viability.

Under this SBIR, Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) will build on its proven EMRG Compact Power Converter design (N113-181), incorporating advanced power devices to take advantage of their improved wide bandgap performance, and allowing continuous duty-cycle operation. Front-end conditioning and switching arrangements will be developed to accommodate various input voltages including 650-1100 VDC ...

In this Phase I project, we will define and develop a concept for a multi-analyte sensor system to detect explosive threat compounds of interest at operationally relevant concentrations in seawater. Explosives trace detection and classification will be performed by Emitechs novel technology, which involves smart nanocomposites and multi-parametric electro-optical sensing. We will conduct a fea ...

The Navy uses intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) coupled with training simulations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of training for a wide variety of operational tasks. These training simulations require significant cost and effort to develop. Unfortunately, the lack of evidence-based design guidelines for critical decisions such as fidelity leads to simulations that are developed in a ...

A critical capability of simulation-based training environments is the degree to which they present a faithful representation of reality. However, there is a scarcity of scientifically-sound tools and methodologies to assess when increased fidelity will lead to better mission effective performance, and thus substantiate associated high costs that often accompany the development of certain simulato ...

Advanced supervisory control tools are needed for managing large teams of swarms. To address this need, we will design and demonstrate Advanced Swarm System Interface Software Toolkit (ASSIST) for efficient and effective multi-level awareness and proactive management of swarm systems. ASSISTs rich decision-support interfaces will convey key critical information to enable awareness, projection, and ...

The Navy must train and deploy effective teams in a variety of complex domains, from intelligence analysis to field medicine. For example, intelligence analysts preparing the battlespace need a team of experts to interpret a variety of multi-INT sources and incorporate local socio-cultural context, and field medicine often requires a team of doctors skilled in a variety of disciplines. Training in ...