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"Accurate Automation Corporation (AAC) proposes to develop a Precision Molded Foam(PMF) method that combines features of precision molding, foam injection and vacuumbagging. This method promises to be low cost, to be scalable to high production rate,to require very little touch labor for finished parts and to provide a high degree ofdimensional precision. With this method, small (

"The objective of this proposal is to develop low noise propellers for application in a UAV concept called SWARM. We propose a combined effort of theoretical and experimental studies to be fully responsive to the need of the SWARM program. AccurateAutomation Corporation (AAC) offers a comprehensive approach to design and manufacture a propeller that reduces the noise by 12dBA with respect to the ...

"Traditional Oil Water Separators (OWS) on ships have beenunreliable in processing emulsified oils in bilgewater.Oil/Water separation has become more difficult in recent years,with the newer generation of ships with drier bilges, and thus ahigher concentration of oil, detergents, and chemical wastes inthe bilgewater. The proposed biomechanical OWS must meet theU.S. Navy's requirements for dischar ...

"Traditional Oil Water Separators (OWS) on ships have beenunreliable in processing emulsified oils in bilgewater.Oil/Water separation has become more difficult in recent years,with the newer generation of ships with drier bilges, and thus ahigher concentration of oil, detergents, and chemical wastes inthe bilgewater. The proposed biomechanical OWS must meet theU.S. Navy's requirements for dischar ...

"We propose a new active broadband electromagnetic (EM) sensor to detect and classify naval mines buried in the littoral. The sensor will work like an underwater metal detector, but it will operate at multiple programmable frequencies suitable to a givenlittoral environment. Once it detects a potential target, the sensor will interrogate the target and measure its spectral responses (inphase and q ...

"The objective of this research is to further develop, optimize and scale up a halogen free nanocomposite vinyl ester system that will provide low flammability composites. The nanocomposite system proposed will be based on commercially available vinylester resins and thus should not result in a significant increase to raw material costs. Layered silicate based nanocomposites are a relatively new ...

"The US Navy is seeking improved capabilities to generate automatically digital elevation models (DEMs) from digital stereoscopic imagery in support of targeting and navigation. Currently, DEMs are derived primarily from orbiting systems, yet these sourceshave historically not provided the spatial resolutions needed for extremely high resolution and accurate DEMs. The goal is to develop a feasibil ...

"Mature, efficient propellers still produce noise that can reduce the stealth of the Navy's unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and compromise sensitive missions. In the interests of national security, it is essential that UUVs operate as quietly aspossible. We propose to increase UUV stealth with a practical biomimetic device, the Oscillation OverThruster, that substantially reduces a propeller' ...

"A new Sea Water Activated Power System (SWAPS ¿ trademark pending) for marine buoys has been demonstrated in the laboratory during a Phase I SBIR program. The passive system, without electronics or moving parts, is based on a commercially availablehydrogen/air, proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. Hydrogen is generated by a chemical reaction ...

"The innovation of this SBIR Phase I project is the development of a reliable high-bandwidth Autonomic Ad hoc Wireless Networking (AWN) technology that automatically creates dynamic configurations to form networks on an ad hoc basis, thereby enablingplatform and facility wireless networks to automatically self configure without requiring hubs or other infrastructure. Current methods try to build a ...