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Arsenic contamination in water supplies poses a severe health risk to world-wide populations. The US EPA has recently lowered As water standards from 50 ppb to 10 ppb to address this risk. Many states, including California, either have passed or are soon to pass even stricter regulations. Currently available As detection methods suffer from numerous drawbacks including non-real-time, costly, bu ...

This project is the development of a single crystal underwater acoustic modem transducer for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) which is compact in size, operates at low to moderately low center frequencies, in a broad band frequency range to accommodate state-of-the-art binary, FSK and spread spectrum signaling schemes that promote covertness. The device exploits the high coupling coefficient an ...

At the present state of the art it is not feasible to generate a signal directly at the microwave operating frequency having the required short-term or long-term stability The best is a high-performance crystal oscillator, usually realized as an ovenized crystal oscillator (OCXO). The OCXO forms the master oscillator for the system; from it, all required system frequencies are derived coherently ...

Reliable System Services Corporation (RSS Corp.) proposes an 18-month program, with a 6-month option, to analyze, design, develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a low cost, low power, high capacity, robust RF communications network using UAV relays in an ocean environment. The developed architecture and design will be suitable for the Navy tactical environment and consistent with FORCEnet. A s ...

A high degree of electrical signal level interoperability has been achieved between aircraft and stores through the application of interface standards such as MIL-STD-1760. This has significantly reduced the need for hardware modifications to integrate stores on platforms, but software level integration remains a costly and lengthy process. Emerging technologies such as a common application prog ...

The United States faces the risk of losing a technology vital to national security. Coatings of Titanium Carbide (TiC) applied by a novel Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Process are applied to the balls used in ball bearings in several important strategic and tactical missile defense systems. A Swiss company was the sole source of these coatings and their production capability has now been phase ...

The objective of this Phase II investigation is to optimize the coating process to apply a Nickel Boron coating on small barrel bores and develop pre-production prototypes of MK46 5.56mm Machine Gun Barrels using Ni-B coatings. The innovation proposes to address the shortcomings of the current Electroplated Hard Chrome bore coating, and is an advancement in surface finishing technology that provi ...

Methods for direct manufacturing of advanced gas turbine diffuser cases from high strength alloys such as Inconel 718 will be demonstrated using a proprietary precision metal deposition and finishing process. High Energy Beam metal deposition processing with significant reductions in product manufacturing cycle time and cost on the order of 50% and 50% respectively, are anticipated. Unique diffuse ...

This project evaluated the feasibility of developing software to address the following problems: (1) analysis, simulation, design and planning of insulation, surface preparation, and coating of ships, and (2) integration of automatic planning and design tools with the popular Ship Constructor CAD package. Tools to support estimating and planning of shipboard surface preparation and coating have ...

Thermal batteries are mission-critical components utilized in virtually every weapon system. Thermal batteries require four types of pellets that comprise the energy-producing portion of the battery. These include: (1) anode pellets, composed of Li(Si) alloy and electrolyte salt, (2) cathode pellets, consisting of either FeS2 or CoS2 and electrolyte salt, (3) separator pellets, consisting of MgO ...