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Advanced Materials Technology, Inc responds to the Navy need to develop novel explosive resistant materials. These materials can be applied to ship structures to provide blast protection and mitigate damages from fragmentation. The proposed lightweight technology can also be used in advanced blast packaging systems to contain or mitigate blast effects of an accidentally detonated weapon. These m ...

A new material, based on a thermally-stable amorphous aluminophosphate composition (Cerablak™), was investigated in Phase I, and demonstrated highly desirable dielectric properties suitable for next-generation hypersonic radomes. Cerablak™ is a low cost, solution derived material which has a unique glass structure that is resistant to crystallization even at elevated temperatures. Building o ...

The US Navy is seeking improved fire protection systems with the primary goal to reduce the areal density based on the current 1 lb/sq ft baseline value. Recent tests with intumescent coatings were largely unsuccessful. Passive fire protection systems are preferable due to their relatively inert nature during a fire event. New thermal concepts are needed to lower areal density of passive fire p ...

Barrier coatings to prevent moisture ingress into radome structures of advanced missile systems are a critical need for the Navy. Ingress of moisture during missile storage can degrade the critical sensor and guidance electronic components housed within the missile radome. The US Navy is developing missiles targeted for varying flight conditions which utilize many radome materials. A versatile ...

Avionica's proposed design solution is a compact solid state wireless data transfer system that functions as a passive aircraft device and employs Mil Spec accepted triple DES secure encryption schemes to transfer the on-board aircraft data rapidly to ground centers for analyses and training with no additional line service personnel workload. Avionica's innovation lies in a non-intrusive and low i ...

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 ...

As noted in a Congressional Budget Cost Report in 1999, each flight hour for an H-60 helicopter costs approximately $12,000 per hour of flight. A properly-designed training device for LSE Students could supplement or replace live helicopter flight hours, and has the potential to provide LSE’s that are better trained to handle Emergency Conditions as well saving a great deal of money. This Phas ...

This project will develop and demonstrate energy scavenging technology to be applied in the open ocean for a low cost, Autonomous Sea Surface Vehicle (ASSV) that obtains power for propulsion, communications, navigation and sensors from the environment. By scavenging energy from the wind, solar power, wave energy or other means, and providing a storage medium such as ultra-cap storage capacitors a ...

Digital Authentication Technologies, Inc. (“DAT”) proposes to begin design, build, debug and testing of its innovative physics-based system that has been developed in its NAVAIR Phase I contract. As the Phase I work describes, the DAT system introduces physics-based strong authentication and location awareness to defeat hacker tools and add additional layers of protection to currently exposed ...

This proposal addresses the development of an improved algorithm for estimating the time-varying impulse response of the ocean in rapidly fluctuating environments, and the development of the means to exploit the temporal diversity of acoustic channels. The short-term objective is the initial design and testing of this technique using direct-sequence spread-spectrum modulation, high-resolution dec ...