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There is constrained domestic availability of strategic metals, superalloys or titanium for example, unacceptably exposing the US military to dependency on foreign sources. A near-term solution is found in the nation’s boneyards, MRO facilities, and machine shops. End of life parts, machine shop scrap, or used powders, represent an untapped source of strategic metals that can provide the US mili ...

CAMX Power proposes to develop a high power, long life lithium-ion (Li-ion) 6T vehicle battery that can be completely de-energized for logistical transportation and storage purposes, giving it exceptional shelf life and making it intrinsically safe under conditions of relaxed environmental controls and with no or minimal state-of-health monitoring. This novel battery, based on CAMX Power’s propr ...

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) believes there may be advantages to using Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, including the associated benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, for improving procurement, logistics and distribution processes in its operations today. Commercial businesses around the world are proving gains in reliability, repeatability, and reduced process costs in all ...

Since World War II, normal aircraft braking is achieved through a system of hydraulically activated carbon brakes located on the main wheels of the aircraft. These friction-based systems offer limited performance and reduced braking capabilities due to brake fade, overheating, thermal loading issues, and generally higher operational, maintenance, repair and overhaul costs over the life cycle of th ...

There is a lack of in-situ, non-contact, non-destructive techniques to detect the presence of particulates contaminating bulk liquid samples in clean room environment during semiconductor processing.  Leveraging our extensive experience building optical sensor systems, we will design and build an innovative handheld particle counter using diffusive wave spectroscopy. Our handheld system can be u ...

Execution of long-range weapons capabilities reduces risk and affords greater warfighter protection. Core enabling technologies for hypersonic projectiles include high-strength lightweight materials, precision avionics, and novel designs. System demands include the ability to withstand both high accelerations (up to 50,000 Gs) and aerothermal shock. Detailed structural engineering and shock modeli ...

SI2 proposes to leverage prior Government funded efforts to develop a transmit (TX) only, wideband (6:1 bandwidth), low-cost, scalable active electronically scanned array (AESA) that will utilize phase-only nulling to enable radar, Electronic Warfare / Electronic Attack (EW/EA), Information Operations (IO) and other capabilities on multiple platforms across DOD agencies. The array will employ digi ...

Airborne radars operating over open water must classify maritime vessels by measuring and exploiting highly-variable radar signatures. Sources of signature variability include within-class ship construction and equipment differences, complex in-situ 6-DoF ship motion caused by ocean waves across a range of sea state conditions, acquisition geometry including grazing angle and maritime-specific RF ...

R-DEX Systems proposes to adapt its commercial discrimination technology used in industrial automation to develop Deep Automatic Target Recognition (DATR) Technology. DATR utilizes revolutionary deep learning processing (deep belief networks or DBNs, restricted Boltzmann machines RBMs, and convolutional neural networks or CNNs) to automatically identify hidden, nonlinear features that are not iden ...

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming widely used in the DoD for image classification, but recent research has shown DNNs are vulnerable to adversary attacks. Adversaries can monitor the DNN training and classification processes to learn attributes of the training data and the DNN. With this information, an adversary can gain valuable insight into the potentially sensitive data used to train th ...