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NOAA is pursuing sustained, in-situ sensing technology to support improved atmospheric modeling of the upper ocean boundary environment, including the air-sea interface, during turbulent storms. Improved atmospheric modeling in this critical region will lead to better forecasting and support NOAA's mandate to protect property and save lives. Small, unmanned aircraft, equipped with atmospheric sens ...

Poor air quality represents a major public health risk, contributing to an estimated one of every eight deaths worldwide. Low-cost air quality sensors have developed rapidly over the last few years and offer the opportunity to make air quality monitoring widespread at an affordable price. However, low-cost sensors are currently unable to deliver accurate, reliable data due to a lack of understandi ...

The S‐100 specification is a new geospatial standard for hydrographic data, that is presently under development by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Once the S‐100 based products and services are fully developed by the IHO, current datasets will be scheduled for obsolescence, and the Hydrographic Offices (HOs) will no longer produce them. Companies offering e‐navigation solu ...

In this Phase II effort, PEMDAS Technologies and Innovations (PEMDAS), in collaboration with subcontractor Westover Studios, proposes to develop a functional prototype of the Weather “Action Chain” Enabler (ACE) application using the technologies identified, knowledge gained, and preliminary design conceived during the Phase I effort. As designed, the Weather ACE application will be a non-intr ...

Triton Systems, Inc. proposes development of the Open-Source Oceanographic Asset Recovery Beacon (OpenORB) that will allow the deployment of coastal instrumentation moorings with affordable protection against loss. This open-source kit would significantly reduce the purchase price of a commercial location beacon by allowing the end-user to assemble a customized system with minimal time and effort. ...

OSD solicits vendors for a ‘High Acceleration and Hypervelocity Inertial Measurement Unit System’ for use in 155mm projectiles. Development of a gun-hardened and highly miniaturized IMU would revolutionize the way in which 155mm gun systems are employed. A 155mm projectile with guidance, navigation and control would enable the development of new systems such as precision gun launched missile d ...

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 ...

Few-shot Object detection via Reinforcement Control of Image Simulation (FORCIS) will combine deep reinforcement learning with additional training data augmentations and strategies to develop robust few shot detectors leveraging available simulations.

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 ...