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The US Marine Corps needs a portable, hydroelectric generator to provide electrical energy to recharge batteries and power equipment. Electrical energy used in the field today is primarily generated using diesel generators. Having the option to use an energy source present in the environment, such as a river or stream, reduces the need to transport and store fuel. In order to meet the Marine Corps ...

Boston Fusion Corp. and the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at Rutgers University propose Autonomous Swarming Hierarchies (ASH), a platform-agnostic multi-robot system (MRS) design software suite with three components: 1) a coordination module (CASH) that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to automatically generate control policies for the robots comprising the system, 2) a networking ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop a high-temperature antenna array for hypersonic projectiles. SI2’s proposed array will be conformal to the geometry of the projectile.  It will be constructed using high temperature conductors and dielectrics.  SI2 offers its unique combination of RF design expertise, manufacturing expertise, and high-temperature RF testing infrastructure.  SI2 ...

The Navy seeks to develop compact and energy efficient technologies to reduce the latent loads of outside air entering the ship during the summer while providing heat during the winter. This is similar to needs in building technology that are often addressed by using rotary desiccant wheels for dehumidification and by enthalpy wheels for preheating fresh makeup air in the winter. Removing water va ...

As US Naval operations in the deep Artic North increase, gaskets and seals used in the battleships will be increasingly exposed to extremely low temperatures up to -40°F. Existing neoprene gaskets used DDG-51 destroyer are not designed for this extreme cold weather conditions. Therefore, new gasket materials are needed that have good resistance (low swelling) to a wide range of oils, hydrocarbons ...

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 ...

Sentenai's commercial solution is a data fusion and decision support system that automates the data engineering processes required to unify operational data under a single, optimized virtual context, ready to be used for interactive analysis by end-users to make real-time decisions based on analyses performed across thousands of data sources simultaneously. In complex operational environments with ...

NAVSEA 04, through the National Center for Manufacturing Services (NCMS), has issued a Phase III SBIR contract to Boston Engineering to advance a commercial above water hull vacuum-hold traversing technology (Vacuum Crawler) developed by International Climbing Machines (ICM). Boston Engineering is under contract to redesign a commercial robotic system with components appropriate for defense applic ...

In response to N231-032, Launchable Mini Glider for Variable Payloads, Triton Ocean Systems will provide an open architecture subsea sensor platform based on Triton’s proven low-cost ocean tools: (1) the expendable subDART glider, (2) the LIMBIC inertial navigation system, (3) the openORB surface buoy, (4) the PBOF rotary actuator, (5) the BEM extreme-low-cost buoyancy engine module. Triton has ...

The Jet Blast Deflectors (JBDs) used on CVN 78 Ford class aircraft carriers are raised and lowered by Electro-Mechanical Actuators (EMAs). Each JMB consists of six large, water-cooled plates located immediately behind planes running up their engines prior to catapult launch. On occasion, either due to loss of power or other mechanical issue, the JBD plates are stuck in the raised position. This si ...