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The goal of the project is to develop a handheld instrument that detects, identifies, and categorizes radioactive sources based on gamma, thermal-, and fast-neutron signatures. Existing radioisotope identification devices (RIIDs) are typically biased toward gamma spectroscopy; some instruments may use an additional inefficient neutron counter in form of a He-3 tube. The recent development of mat ...

The proposed Phase II.5 ViPER USMC large mission planning mission planning expansion effort seeks to add capabilities to ViPER-CVW that will provide an initial large force air planning capability to USMC aviation planners. Development will focus on providing route and airspace deconfliction tools which link airspace, flight routing, and planned aircraft movements, as well as automated checks to en ...

Triton Systems is working to expand the materials available for additive manufacturing. We will address shipboard FST concerns by incorporating unique flame retardants into the feedstock of standard additive manufacturing tools. We propose to reformulate polymeric materials to meet the FST requirements, while ensuring that the resultant polymers meet the physical/mechanical requirements for applic ...

BlueRISC’s proposed solution provides a generic binary-level toolkit for inserting new functionality into embedded system executables/firmware. It performs this without making any assumptions as to the level of information (i.e. symbolic information) contained in the binary image. The solution will take the form of a toolkit with automated support for binary image disambiguation, code reverse en ...

Improved head and hearing protection is required for aircraft maintainers working on a carrier flight deck during launch and recovery operations. Legacy Flight Deck Cranials are inadequate in many aspects including hearing protection and impact protection. In previous work, Creare has developed a Flight Deck Cranial (FDC) that offers unparalleled hearing protection and industrial standard head pro ...

This SBIR Phase II.5 program is aimed at reducing the vulnerability and enhancing the survivability of multiple aircraft platforms with specific interest in detecting second layer corrosion/material loss and second layer fatigue cracking in relatively thin structures. Large area scanning of metallic structure for fatigue crack detection in first and second layers is of general interest, including ...

SDI Engineering Inc. (SDI) will develop validated software tools for hose and drogue aerial refueling operations. This will result in a modeling, simulation and analysis capability that can be used to address issues related to aerial refueling operations. SDI has working software that was previously developed for the analysis of the refueling hose, reeling mechanism and probe. SDI’s software wil ...

Triton Systems proposes to provide for the Navy the Improved Air Deployable Acoustic Receiver (ADAR) Sonobuoy Structure, which will expand the acoustic range of the AN/SSQ-101 sonobuoy into low frequencies and will provide improved capability to detect, classify, locate, and track submarines and other sonar contacts.

The objective of this study is to define and architect a subsea optical mesh network to enhance the resilience and availability of data flow.

The main objective is to design, build and test a low-profile, high-power, low-frequency broadband, d36 shear-mode piezoelectric single crystal transducer capable of operating at submarine depths. Because of Phase I program constraints, we designed an initial modified shear mode transducer with a nylon cylinder head-suspension, that would be used in a d36 design capable of operating at submarine d ...