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The current state of the art thermal battery technologies will not be able to meet future requirements that call for higher power and capacity with a smaller footprint. The principal avenue for increasing the capacity of thermal battery is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to ...

The modeling and simulation industry has long been plagued by errors in synthetic natural environment representations and services. Terrain correlation issues span a wide range of layers, including database generation, data content, run-time algorithms, and system functional effect. These issues are highly damaging in terms of cost and training impacts. Although multiple attempts have been made to ...

The accuracy and integrity of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) sources are critical components of modern military operations. These requirements must be met in all operational environments, including situations where GPS signals are degraded or denied. While selective availability anti-spoofing module (SAASM) enhanced GPS receivers provide greatly improved performance over civilian system ...

Advanced Optical Systems, Inc. (AOS) has developed and demonstrated the Cable Angle Measurement System, a low-cost, accurate system for measuring a helicopter’s load position and motion at the end of an external sling. By using a camera, an LED target, and custom electronics, the AOS system measures the load’s angle with better than 0.1° accuracy across a 150° field of view and with 0.1°/s ...

Missiles and munitions require, in the absence of gunner input, an autonomous capability to discriminate between hard targets such as Rolled Homogeneous Armor (RHA) and various other softer targets on impact in real-time. The proposed program will integrate multiple sensing techniques and devices into a single system to realize a robust target discrimination capability. The effort will quantify th ...

Phase I successfully developed novel plasma coating technologies and diamond-like carbon (DLCs) coatings for producing non-toxic hydrophobic coatings to improve the infrared obscurant performance of metal flakes and red phosphorous (RP) powder. The DLC coatings were shown to be highly hydrophobic, reduce agglomeration, prevent oxidation, reduce phosphine production, and not interfere with the burn ...

This U.S. Army sponsored SBIR project addresses the development of new, in-line sensors interfaced (via wireless communication protocols) with ruggedized, PDA-sized data logging devices that are able to provide tactical water purification operators (92W) with a real-time diagnostic tool for verifying treatment process operation, removal of contaminants and performance optimization. Key results fro ...

Team Dignitas’ overall objective for Phase II is to enhance the training capabilities of existing virtual simulations based upon advanced dynamic terrain functionality, while simulataneously looking toward next generation capabilities. Throughout our Phase II work, we will coordinate with existing programs to minimize duplicate effort and assure we are addressing unique tasks. In addition, Tea ...

Modus Operandi proposes the development of JC3-TIME, an innovative software module for representing, extracting and reasoning over temporal information, which supports intelligence analysis through event correlation and all source fusion in operational (large-scale) settings. Identification of patterns in the enemy’s behavior is critical to disrupting his activities. Intelligence analysts a ...

Aqwest proposes to develop a novel edge-pumped composite disk laser amplifier for ultra-short pulse (USP) lasers offering operation at high-average power (HAP) at near-diffraction limited beam quality (BQ). The project will produce an amplifier for USP laser with the following major benefits to the Army and the DOD: 1) Transverse absorbed pump distribution uniformity >90% 2) Less than 1/20 of wave ...