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Protocols used for communication suffer bloat from a variety of sources, such as support for legacy features or rarely used (and unnecessary) functionality. Traditionally, the Navy subscribes to a blanket adoption of a standard protocol "as is". Unnecessary features are active and can be accessed by both internal and external systems creating security vulnerabilities. PJR Corporation's (PJR's) Pha ...

The research objective of the proposed work is to demonstrate a prototype of a feed-forward control (FFC) system for the laser powder bed process to produce higher quality AM builds. The FFC will compensate for the systemic variability arising from the statistics of the additive layer, powder bed, and thermal phenomena. The compensation will be performed in near-real time on a full set of laser pr ...

This SBIR delivers two optical ground stations, based on commercial design, to support experimentation and laser communication with AFRL spacecraft.  These assets facilitate research in flexible space operations, secure low probability of intercept (LPI) communications, and management of shared resources with disparate commercial networks.  The standards based design supports day and night opera ...

ATA Engineering, Inc., in collaboration with IERUS Technologies, Inc., proposes the continued development of the Rotorcraft Advanced Signature Prediction (RASP) toolkit. This will involve extension of existing widely used, well-validated EO/IR toolsets to rotorcraft through a modular, variable-fidelity, hierarchical approach to signature analysis. To achieve this capability, the project team will ...

To address the Navy’s need for cross-domain transition goggles with an integrated, illuminated display, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes, in Phase II, to advance the development of the new Transition Wide-Angle Goggles with Integrated Illuminated Display (TWIGIID), which were proven feasible in Phase I for use by the Navy’s special operations skydivers and underwater divers. The novel ...

This proposal presents a new way of testing airborne radar systems that employ adaptive signal processing techniques for ground clutter mitigation. The proposed approach is based on ISL’s Real-time Electromagnetic Environment Simulator RTEMES(TM) technology that presents a radar system with a highly realistic virtual clutter environment. The new approach provides highly robust testing of adaptiv ...

In Phase II, Mainstream will continue development efforts for several lenses used in the stabilized glide slope indicator (SGSI) system and Fresnel lens optical landing system (FLOLS). Mainstream produced prototype clear acrylic lenticular lenses prototypes that passed optical tests performed by the engineering support activity (ESA) at NAWCADLKE in Phase I. Mainstream will develop conformal color ...

Today’s combat environment is a complex orchestration of multiple systems operated by people requiring a high degree of training to be effective. Training is both difficult and time consuming, with high demand on a small number of skilled instructors. There is a need to improve the quality of training, provide objective performance assessments, reduce the instructor workload, and increase the ef ...

Unbalanced loading of electrical generators can increase system losses, reduce generator lifetime, and increase the frequency of spurious circuit breaker tripping. Current technology to balance loads include EVRs and UPSs, which are must too large and heavy for application in navy submarines. Therefore, the Navy is in need of more flexible and power dense solutions such that timely equipment chang ...

One important challenge for the reliable prediction of liquid fuel effects on the combustion in aviation combustors and augmentors is the accurate modeling of underlying physical processes, involving the evaporation of fuels, preferential vaporization, scalar mixing and ignition. LES methodologies are required to accurately capture these transient and inherently unsteady combustion processes. In t ...