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Throughout their history, Marines have been targeted, or hunted, by snipers, terrorists, and other adversaries. The USMC has implemented the Combat Hunter Program to better counter these threats by teaching Marines to be the hunter, rather than the hunted. Combat Hunter skills include establishing baselines, or schemas, that identify what shouldand should notbe expected in combat settings. Existin ...

Phase II.5 proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00014-09-C-0079: Aircraft carrier landings are one of the most difficult and safety critical tasks Naval Aviators must master in the course of their training. In light of continuing training resource and budgetary constraints, there has been interest on the part of the USN to investigate the potential for increased flight simulator utilization f ...

XAgiltron, Inc., The Boeing Company, and Raytheon Company propose novel hydrodynamic flow energy harvesting systems with autonomous deployment in coastal and riverine environments, based upon our extensive R & D experience with fluid dynamics, electromagnetic generators, power management, and field deployment. The hydrodynamic energy harvester system will have a 1.4m height and 0.6 by 0.6m footpri ...

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a critical part of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, but limitations in platform size, weight, and power (SWAP) and communication bandwidth prevent the potentially game-changing combination of high-resolution ISR and tactical-edge availability. Our solution to this problem is the Compact Aerial Video Exploitation (CAVE) ...

Phase I demonstrated the feasibility of fabricating cost-competitive intermediate band light-harvesting solar cells with high conversion efficiency, through a combination of intermediate band physics and the unique structure of our proposed material. Phase II will continue the research, produce prototype intermediate band solar cells, and develop a manufacturing plan for high efficiency, low cost ...

Current and future non-kinetic operations require United States and coalition forces to understand the complex human, social, cultural, and behavioral dimensions of the battlespace. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Human, Social, Culture, Behavior Modeling Program (HSCB) was designed to help warfighters more effectively navigate operational environments in which we need an increasing a ...

Navy mine-hunting assets such as the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) depend on the penetration of laser light into seawater for detection and classification of sea mines. Their performance depends upon local water properties which may be highly variable, especially in littoral waters. During this Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project Physical Sciences Inc. will develop a ...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are being transformed from stand-alone assets to nodes in a network of interconnected knowledgeable entities in the operating environment working to enhance decision-making and collaboration in intelligence collection and precision strike missions. There is a well-established need for dynamic re-planning during a plan execution in response to environmental changes, ...

The Mayflower Waveform Agile Radio Paradigm (WARP) technology addresses frequency opportunism in a tactical MANET by developing and demonstrating a cross-layer frequency spectrum fragmentation and recovery solution for networking waveforms with distributed network control in response to spectrum availability concerns. The WARP Phase II program will further develop, design, implement, demonstrate ...

PSI proposes to develop a Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) system for missile radomes based on time-domain THz technology. The proposed NDE system will identify defects that can lead to failure during flight through signatures in the time-domain THz waveform. Furthermore, the spatially localized THz measurement will provide a map of the THz dielectric properties of the radome. This map will be ext ...