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Fog and smog reduce visibility at sea, greatly impacting ship navigation and safety. Low visibility marine conditions decrease speed and safety of commercial fleets and increase costs through poor fuel load planning. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of maritime operations to the supply chain; therefore, decreasing associated cost and risk are of the utmost importance. Applied Ocean ...

"Metron proposes to develop user-friendly software to promote understanding of impacts due to cascading climate hazards and extreme weather events, in collaboration with George Mason University (GMU). Climate and extreme weather (CEW) hazards pose significant risks to life and property. As extreme events become more prevalent, risks associated with cascading, compound events come to the fore, such ...

Advancements in optical transport and signal processing for digital and Microwave Photonics (MWP) technology have enabled higher bandwidth, throughput, Dynamic Range (DR), and communication link budgets. Optical transport eliminates heavy shielded twisted pair or coaxial cables, reducing Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) and provides Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) immunity compared to traditional ...

It is well known that gas-turbine powered aircraft operating in brown-out conditions can ingest a significant amount of particles leading to reduced engine performance, a reduction in time between maintenance and increased safety concerns. As such, it is critical to be able to accurately model the impact of ingested particles in engines for both maintenance purposes and in the design of new, more ...

The Navy requires a low-cost, industrial microwave system for curing aerospace composite materials. In this Phase I STTR proposal, Physical Sciences Inc outlines the development of a microwave applicator that uses low-cost RF sources and can be installed in heritage autoclaves for curing large aerospace composite parts. This technology has the potential to improve cured mechanical properties, and ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Stanford University, will develop an electromagnetic simulation package used for the development and optimization of large-scale meta-optics, and demonstrate the functionality of the package in the long-wave infrared (LWIR). Our team will combine recent progress in physics-augmented deep learning neural networks with rigorous far-field diffractio ...

Marine fouling has always been a significant problem to manage. All the solutions have associated costs and additional maintenance. If the fouling is left untreated, fuel costs increase, and maneuverability is reduced. Eventually the ship must be docked and cleaned leading to availability and cleaning costs. Alternatively, the hull and other components below the water line can be coated or imbued ...

Physical Sciences Inc. partnered with Alfred University will develop an F/1, 90 degree full field of view MWIR/SWIR gradient index (GRIN) compound lens for reduced size and lens integration cost. The element-by-element achromatization and athermalization of GRIN provide useful performance improvements to GRIN systems. Element count is reduced (= 2), diversity of optical material needed is fixed, a ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, proposes to develop an advanced algorithm suite for data translation across sensing modalities to support the development of automated target recognition and classification algorithms for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. The proposed Deep Diffusion Sensor Translation (DDST) leverages recent advancements in generative ...

Effective tools for evaluating the proficiency of warfighters at employing complex systems in an operational setting are essential to ensure operational capability within the Navy and other branches of the DoD. Generating exams with answer keys is a time-consuming process, made more difficult by the complexity of both the systems and the operational employment of those systems.  The burden is fur ...