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The nature and requirements of military operations lead to high noise levels, exposing military and civilian personnel to the possibility of noise-induced hearing loss. Otoacoustic emission (OAE) probes can assess the health of the inner ear by testing the response of the cochlea to various types of stimuli. The measurement of emissions at high frequency has the potential to detect noise-induced d ...

In recent years, the need for highly reliable, durable and non-intrusive systems for monitoring the health condition of naval structures becomes more and more recognized. Of particular importance is the condition based maintenance of Navy rotating machinery (motors, generators, pumps, gear systems, etc.). Such Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems should be able to detect failures in their ea ...

Optonicus proposes development of the WALAM-ABS (Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping) laser additive manufacturing (LAM) system. The WALAM-ABS metal additive manufacturing system will solve long-standing drawbacks imposed by current single-point selective laser melting LAM technology through the use of wide-area processing based on proprietary multi-beam fib ...

Optonicus proposes development of the Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS) laser additive manufacturing (LAM) system. The WALAM-ABS metal additive manufacturing system will solve long-standing drawbacks imposed by current single-point selective laser melting LAM technology through the use of wide-area processing based on proprietary multi-beam fib ...

An integrated program of fundamental research, software development and technology transition to Navy target platforms for computationally efficient yet accurate prediction of turbulence interactions involving disparate length scales has been proposed and is underway. The fundamental research will be conducted at Purdue University and provide a critical modeling component for turbulence resolving ...

The Navys atmospheric modeling capabilities do not accurately predict the atmosphere at the sea-air marine boundary layer, creating anomalous visual/electro-optical/infrared propagation conditions, which can be deceiving. The Navys observational capabilities rely on locally-collected point measurements at the sea surface. However, single point collections cannot accurately estimate the atmospheric ...

Military and open-source videos contain a wealth of information about entities, concepts, and events of interest to US and coalition forces. Intelligence analysts have access to these video data sources but are severely limited in exploiting the information contained within due to manpower and technical limitations. Unlike most data sources, video data is actually multi-modal. Relevant information ...

Military and open-source videos contain a wealth of information about entities, concepts, and events of interest to U.S. and coalition forces. Analysts have access to these video sources but are severely limited in exploiting the information contained within due to manpower and technical limitations. To fully understand the relevance of a video to mission objectives, analysts must watch each video ...

Detonation-based combustion devices have recently gained significant research interest because they can significantly improve cycle efficiency in propulsion and power generation systems. A high-sensitivity, high-bandwidth sensor for in-situ measurements of temperature and combustion products is needed to assist the development of accurate models for predicting combustor performance. Here we propos ...

The Navy seeks technology based on statistical or computational methods to assist in the continued tracking of training performance and proficiency trends as underlying tactical data changes. OASYS, INC. and the ITCS at UAH proposes to exploit the benefits of modeling the underlying cause-effect structure of Navy data, rather than the data itself. This approach makes the model and analytical metho ...