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Advances in naval weapon and propulsion technology are requiring large increases in power production. New technologies to meet these greater power demands has lead to advanced high speed, high power density electrical generators on-board naval vessels, which require active cooling of generator components. A significant problem experienced in the use of new generator technology is the transport of ...

Imaging sensors, or focal plane arrays (FPAs), designed to detect the light signature of ballistic missiles, are a critical component of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) space sensor program known as the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS). The need to detect a missile at the greatest distance from its intended target, drives the advancement of sensor technology toward the increased ...

Many hardware trojans depend on (a) the ability of an attacker to have an accurate model of the target system and of key software used on that system and (b) identification of one or more deterministic trigger conditions with low observability (i.e., conditions that evade detection by traditional scan- or ATPG-based testing methodologies but that can be exercised on demand via external stimuli). ...

Fighting the ‘Long War’ requires a long memory as well as the ability to recognize and adapt to constant, rapid change. In accumulating knowledge about the Global War on Terror, the intelligence community seeks to keep track of potential or known terrorists, their organizations, their targets, and their tactics. Crucial nuggets of information are often embedded within free text reported by n ...

The military electrical systems have continually evolved into higher power, more compact architectures. This trend has generated the need for capacitors with high voltage breakdown strength and high insulation resistance to condition, insulate, and distribute power throughout the weapon system. Furthermore, there is a need to develop capacitors that can operate in a stable manner with continuous ...

ABSTRACT: SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) will design and develop a form and fit upgrade for the existing data link antennas on F-35. By leveraging a novel wideband low profile array architecture, significantly lower scan loss is achieved; this provides stronger links and longer ranges over a wider field-of-view. SI2"s array technology is inherently wideband enabling the extension of operational fre ...

Welkin Sciences proposes to design and build the Direct L-band Converter (DLBC), which not only includes the digital up-converter (DUC) function needed by the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program, but also provides two very important additional capabilities that go beyond the functionality solicited by the SBIR A10-016 topic description. First, the L-band 950 MHz to 1950 MHz fre ...

The goal of the proposed program is to combine the functionality of the TR-232, TR-233 and ITC-1007 transducers into a single high performance transducer that can meet all of the NavyÕs submarine acoustic communications requirements. All this needs to packaged into a form factor that fits within the current TR-233 footprint and include both transmit and receive response. Materials Systems Inc. (M ...

We propose developing a wide area situation awareness (WASA) application for android mobile phones.

WE PROPOSE TO COMBINE THE TOOLS OF IMAGE GENERATION, STATISTICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS AND TARGET RECOGNITION CUES TO PRODUCE AN AUTOMATIC IMAGE INTERPRETER WHICH CAN BE APPLICABLE TO REALISTIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WILL CALL ON THE SYNTHESIS MODULE TO SEARCH FOR INCONSISTENCIES IN GEOMETRY AND GREY LEVEL SHADING, IDENTIFY SHADOWS AND DECOYS. THE EXPERT SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE THE FINAL INTERPRETATION OF THE ...