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SeaLandAire (SLA) will build on the work done in the Phase I effort to address the Navy’s need for a strengthened, full-duplex communications datalink between the surface unit of a sonobuoy and its suspended payload, as described in Navy SBIR Topic N221-023. SLA, along with our partner AFFOA, will develop, build and test prototype tethers.  We will design a fiber optic based tether which will a ...

Commercial industry has begun to integrate flexible robotic material handling solutions to improve the efficiency and reliability of operations. This has been particularly true for manufacturing facilities and warehouses, which have begun to integrate a range of autonomous vehicles for retrieving and moving supplies as well as robotic manipulators for retrieving components. However, military susta ...

Analysis of Social Media Intelligence (SOCINT) is a growing priority within the Department of Defense (DoD) in support of information operations (IO). While there have been many programs to develop social media analytics, less attention has been put to developing post-analytic tools that incorporate SOCINT into intelligence analyst sensemaking and report generation workflows. This leaves analysts ...

Our goal for this Navy SBIR project is to develop a TRL-7 prototype of the BRG with excellent long-term bias stability and shock and vibration insensitivity that can operate in a military temperature range (-50–80 °C) and optionally can operate at very high temperature (200 °C) (i.e. bias drift < 0.01 deg/hr, angle random walk < 0.005 deg/sqrt(hr), and scale factor stability < 100 ppm).  We ...

The Aggregated Data Evaluation & Prediction Tool is a data analyst software that processes aggregated Navy data streams and enables predictive analysis and experimentation through ML modeling.

This effort will extend the RL-ICE capability for low-shot object detection to operate with zero real data within the MWIR band (zero-shot learning). Our goal is to 1.) mature our software, 2.) maximize the performance benefit of synthetic data in training an object detector and, 3.) assess the trade-space of real vs synthetic data by comparing performance to a detector trained on fully real data. ...

Composite materials have become ubiquitous over the past two decades with greater use in naval structures due to the high specific strength, stiffness, and toughness offered with respect to other engineering materials. While fiber reinforced polymers have found wide use in commercial applications, currently used materials are costly and require extended cure times which greatly increases manufactu ...

Commercial off-the-shelf acoustic hailing devices use high sensitivity horn and driver combinations that are capable of producing sound in the range of 109 dB in an anechoic environment.  These devices are not as loud as desired, and are significantly heavier (>350 lbs.), and more expensive (>$100k) than the proposed solution.  An array of 8 custom driver and horn pairs is proposed to be integra ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR is to extract latent or unexploited information from existing submarine acoustic sensors through a highly innovative inter- and intra-sensor correlation algorithm, in order to provide U.S. submarines with increased acoustic superiority over increasingly quiet adversaries.  U.S. adversaries are continuously improving their acoustic quieting technologies through effor ...

SoarTech proposes to develop a speech communication trainer, ROGER (Radio Operations Guidance and Educational Resource), that provides a web-based communication rehearsal capability to Co-Tactical Coordinator (COTAC) students satisfying P-8A FRS and post-FRS communication requirements. SoarTech proposes to develop technology to support performance assessment without instructor involvement, develop ...