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KaZaK Composites proposes to design and demonstrate innovative, low cost pultrusion technology that meets DD(X) structural requirements, and could significantly reduce the finished cost of composite ship structures compared to VARTM. A database of design information is required to confidently commit to the use of a material in ship structures. It has been KCI's assertion that the pultrusion proce ...

Sensitive site exploitation activities are focused on collecting forensic evidence left behind by persons involved in terrorist or other illegal activity, and the biological evidence recovered is often referred to as"touch DNA samples". Touch samples include fingerprints, skin cells found on clothing (e.g. a shirt collar), and oral epithelial cells found on the opening of a soda can or the rim of ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to design, fabricate, and deliver two fully operational prototype total field scalar magnetometers with size, weight, and power specifications consistent with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) applications. The Phase II development program will extend the successful Phase I laboratory proof of concept to combine optical pumping of alkali atoms with sensitive absorp ...

The Naval Air Command performs a wide variety of sophisticated and time-consuming calculations in the service of repairing fighter jets and other high-end equipment. These calculations are developed by specialists at some expense and time. This SBIR concerns an effort to extract more value from the intellectual capital contained in these calculations, deploy them to a broader spectrum of users, an ...

MANEUVER is a focused, applied research effort that combines cutting edge biological and engineering techniques to provide a basis for advanced hydrodynamic control surfaces design for unsteady conditions and includes quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the technology as related to Navy Submarines, UUVs, and surface vessels. Empirical testing on a free-swimming vehicle is necessary for maki ...

Omni-directional imaging systems can provide 360° views in each frame of video providing a full sweep of surveillance many times per second. Software can be applied to detect and qualify moving contacts and provide alarm actions accordingly. Combination of this capability with human identification software provides powerful tool for force protection. The software can provide information on many m ...

GVD Corporation (GVD) proposes to develop low-cost, conformal, board-level environmental coatings for phased array radar T/R module boards. These boards must survive harsh environmental conditions for long periods, such as humidity, bias, temperature cycling, and ionic contamination. Such conditions can cause delamination and migration of the boards metallic interconnects. Water absorption by the ...

This proposed work is to advance the Electric Sparker Impulsive Source (ESIS) sonobuoy and its specialized parts technology into a sonobuoy. This includes developing a new low cost high voltage switch and converting the packaging to meet A-size sonobuoy air-droppable form factor requirements. ESIS buoys will be developed and delivered, to support PMA-264 testing and to obtain in-situ environmental ...

Military and commercial aircraft operators are moving toward predictive maintenance to minimize costs while maximizing asset availability and safety. Key technological prerequisites for this new approach are the ability to monitor the condition of critical components, and the ability to accurately forecast their remaining useful life. Phase I of this project clearly demonstrated the feasibility of ...

Modern real-time systems have become evolved to complex systems comprised of an complex orchestra of distributed applications. Access to data from members of dissimilar and distributed applications is difficult but required to understand state, manage, and dynamically adapt. These modern systems expand capabilities but add burden to operate, maintain, and analyzecounter to the need to reduce costs ...