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The goal of this Phase I STTR proposal is to quantify the necessary hardware and processing requirements to enable a ship-based radar system to automatically detect and track whales on the ocean surface at distances of 5 kilometers or more for the purposeof collision avoidance. Long standoff detection and tracking is crucial to collision avoidance since large ships, such as commercial oil tankers, ...

Undersea sensors require means of transporting data to an end-user. Acoustic modem networks are being developed for this purpose, but they are limited by battery power, network priorities, and requirements for clandestine operations. We propose a systemsapproach to reducing the impact on the network of moving large volumes of data, using both low rate and high rate acoustic telemetry, combined w ...

Cermet, in collaboration with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, proposes to implement a lattice matched III-Nitride technology using existing substrates. The implementation of a lattice matched substrate promises to produce near dislocationfree III-Nitrides for the first time while the use of an existing substrate technology dramatically lowers development cost and reduces the devel ...

Animal waste is a potentially valuable energy resource, but it cannot be shipped economically. If the waste could be converted to hydrogen, the hydrogen could be used in fuel cells to provide electricity and space heating to farms and other rural facilities. Unfortunately, the only presently available technology for doing this conversion, steam reforming, is not economical for small installatio ...

Wet biomass is a potentially valuable energy resource but it cannot be shipped economically. If wet biomass could be converted to hydrogen, the hydrogen could be used in fuel cells to provide electricity and space heating to farms and other rural facilities. However, the only presently available technology for this conversion, steam reforming, is not economical for small installations. This pro ...

Inorganic/organic (hybrid) nanoreinforcements based upon Nanostructured Chemicals and POSS-modified nano/macrofillers offer alternate mechanisms to fire retarding conventional hydrocarbon-based polymers. The two primary mechanisms provided bynanoreinforcements are (i) reduced volatilization of fuel (organic monomer/polymer) and (ii) the formation of oxidatively stable, nonpermeable surface chars ...

The development of microfluidics devices for use in micro-fabricated chemical sensors would improve the capability for detecting weapons of mass destruction. Although a myriad of microfluidics transport devices have been demonstrated, full commercialization has not yet been realized due to an absence of design standards that would enable variable interconnects and flow paths. In addition, these ...

KaZaK Composites and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell will conduct an analytical and experimental investigation of technology alternatives for mounting hardware to composite sandwich panels used in shipboard structures. The KCI/UML team will workwith Bath Iron Works to ensure that attachment system solutions developed during the program are compatible with demanding and diverse needs associa ...

KaZaK Composites and Stanford University propose to design, develop and demonstrate a prototype bending-twisting-coupled composite rudder for the DDG 51. The Phase I design and process development effort will include classical laminated plate theory,finite element analysis and VARTM mold flow analysis. Test structures will be fabricated by two different methods during Phase I. First, an approximat ...

We shall use recently developed numerical technology to compute detonation phenomena accurately,deal with mixed phase flow, high strain rate solid mechanics and complex geometry. These new techniques, developed largely by the personnel involved, includethe level set method, ghost fluid method, ENO and WENO shock capturing schemes, solid fluid interaction methodology and the fast closest point tran ...