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The outer cable strands used to tow the AQS-20A from the RMMV are made from Nitronic 50, an austenitic stainless steel that, under normal circumstances, exhibits excellent corrosion resistance and strength over a wide temperature range. Unfortunately, the cables are experiencing early life corrosion problems due to salt water deposit buildup that occurs over repeated operations and subsequent syst ...

MATSYS proposes to develop and scale-up a processing technology to maximize the combustion efficiency of metal powders and enhance warhead blast performance. Metal powder particles are typically prepared by inert gas atomization and have very clean surfaces. These particles are then exposed to a controlled amount of oxygen to pacify the surface and enable safe handling. In some applications, these ...

Recent studies by the PI and the Co-PI of this STTR effort have shown that aluminum alloys and stainless steel in Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) fail upon reaching a critical entropy; claimed to be an intrinsic material property. The critical entropy has been used as damage metric for prediction of remaining useful life (RUL). Also, similar entropic concept has previously been applied to LCF of composite ...

Through its NAVSEA SBIR program, NanoSonic has designed, synthesized, and empirically validated an innovative low-cost, easily applied VOC-free HybridSil CRES pipe leak repairing resin that readily seals pressurized CRES pipes, withstands continuous pipe pressures beyond 350 psi within JP-5 fuel, and prevents crevice corrosion during ASTM B117 salt fog corrosion testing. To meet this challenge, Na ...

Progeny Systems has performed analysis and preliminary design of an Expendable Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (ExCTD) sensor that can be launched from the 3 launcher on the submarine during the SBIR Phase I effort. The ExCTD can launch, ascend toward the surface, flood (change buoyancy) and then descend to sample the water column every 10 feet during ascent and every 5 feet during descent at ...

Rapid response missions to remote, unknown areas are becoming a primary focus for U.S. military forces. These missions require time-sensitive development of intelligence from all available sources including open source data, historic imagery, and live collections. Capabilities currently exist to extract low-level information (i.e. entities, relationships, and actions) from these large scale data s ...

To keep abreast of groups and individuals operating in a particular area, US forces gather vast amounts of intelligence. Extracted from this sea of information are the entities that exist in the data. We have made great leaps in entity extraction technology. The next challenge is to overcome entity ambiguity that remains at the end of this processing pipeline. These entities are typically stored a ...

This effort is advancing the development of a nondestructive evaluation (NDE) tool for quantitative assessment of highway bridge coatings, the Infrared Coating Inspection System (IR‐CIS). The IR‐CIS can be used to improve decision‐making regarding over‐coating or recoating of bridges, by better and more fully quantifying the current condition of coatings in ways not possible using only vis ...

comingIn combating terrorism, Warfighters must monitor at risk individuals and groups. The data sources needed to monitor such entities can consist of military sensors as well as open source literature. Key data types include unstructured text, audio, imagery, and biometric data. Currently, there does not exist a way to run specific searches in response to a tactical information need against large ...

Military and intelligence operations are gathering imagery from a variety of sources including ground-based sensors, aerial platforms, and satellites at rates far exceeding our ability to analyze or even transmit and archive this data. This imagery comprises not only still images but increasingly full-motion video (FMV); high-definition (HD), wide-area imagery (WAMI), and other high-resolution for ...