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The US Navy in this Topic identified the need to develop and demonstrate innovative technologies that leverage existing and emerging commercial real-time wireless circuitry by upconversion of frequency to 60 GHz (V-band) for short range, high security applications. This topic was originated by the NavAir F/A-18 Program Office to research the possibility of using a millimeter wave wireless local a ...

The advanced structural watertight door system being developed by Juniper Industries, in conjunction with Walz & Krenzer, Inc., promises to help achieve the overall weight savings, improved performance, reduced maintenance time, and life cycle cost reductions that are currently being sought by new naval ship designs. Having demonstrated the economic and technical feasibility of the Juniper door sy ...

The objective is to develop an electromagnetic modeling software code that can simultaneously handle analysis of the target, its environment and the sensors used to sense the environment along with the platform effects on which they are mounted. Our approach will be to generate the true impulse response of the targets thereby making identification much easier as it will strip off the various envir ...

The US Navy and other Department of Defense agencies are facing an urgent need for new and improved radome materials for advanced missile systems. High temperature sealants on radome structures of advanced missile systems is a critical need, since ingress of moisture during missile storage can degrade the electronic components housed within the missile radome. Inorganic coatings are preferred for ...

Continued development of compact, high-reduction ratio gearboxes, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lift Fan Gearbox, relies on the use of advanced steel alloys and high-temperature fracture-tough coatings to create gear configurations with low noise and vibration characteristics. All gearbox materials, including the housing, must be sufficiently lightweight, affordable, and have the durabil ...

Impact Technologies propose to further develop and test a shipboard and shore-based maintenance decision tool that can autonomously and optimally select and schedule maintenance actions for Naval Ship Systems from a readiness and cost/benefit perspective. The proposed strategies will include the capability to account for risk across critical shipboard systems, integration with CBM systems, and pr ...

The US Navy is working towards providing more reliable estimates of fatigue life to reduce the risk of component failure during flight and to improve repair schedules while reducing costs. Fretting fatigue is seen as one of the controlling factors in the life of aircraft engine components where cyclic loading leads to contact and slip between mating parts. For instance, the disk/blade assemblies ...

Current infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems are limited by the size and weight of their jamming transmitter. Laser systems based on nonlinear conversion are intrinsically large and inefficient compared to diode lasers. For current, as well as future, countermeasure systems, mid-infrared diode lasers need to be produced which can satisfy the power needs for IRCM while minimizing the system siz ...

Conventional network visualization systems are primarily focused on showing networks with fixed topologies and do not scale well for the types of dynamic ad-hoc mobile networks that are increasingly prevalent in the net-centric military. Visualytics is developing a suite of next-generation visualization techniques that are specialized for showing this type of network with constantly evolving topo ...

Impact Technologies, LLC proposes to further develop the use of an automated reasoner to provide decision support for fleet management of military aircraft. The proposed tool will consist of four tightly integrated components: data mining, availability assessment and maintenance optimization, mission planning, and interactive data visualization. The data mining module will operate on the operati ...