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Highway-rail grade crossings, at which there is an abrupt change in the level of the road surface as it crosses the tracks, present a severe hang-up risk to vehicles with low ground clearance. In Phase I and II, ATR developed a conceptual design for a Low Ground Clearance Vehicle Detection System (LGCVDS) to actively prevent such accidents. The LGCVDS is able to use a priori crossing profile data ...

The proposed effort will convert and existing air-dropped GARC hull and its mission elements from gasoline waterjet propulsion (Mercury Optimax) to unmanned diesel outdrive propulsion. This conversion will require: incorporation of a diesel engine and outdrive, hull internal structural changes to enable mounting of the engine and outdrive, exhaust and cooling system changes to accommodate the dies ...

JEM Engineering will expand on development from Phase II development of our compact Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) technology and integrate with a Low Observable Radome in a low-profile size limited cavity. By targeting state of the art tuning methods, we can create a circularly polarized antenna with low axial ratio and integrating the benefit of the aperiodic AMC antenna cell matching.

Intrusion detection and warning remains a high importance topic to OSD, Navy and Marine Corps. The Phase I and Phase II work focused on the operational concept of long-term unattended security for containers, cargo, and other assets. Under this program, IAI built a security-sensing system called Cognitive Ultra-low Power Sensor System (CUPSS). CUPSS had a wide variety of sensing modalities, includ ...

The use of infrared images to evaluate thermal stress of clothing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is by now commonplace. However current methods rely on a qualitative assessment of these images and are subjective, prone to errors, and restricted to stationary human subjects or manikins. The main objective of this program is to develop a methodology for objective comparison of PPE performan ...

The goal of this SBIR proposal is to develop and demonstrate an innovative software design tool that will automate the techniques used in shock qualification by extension in a way that designers and engineers can use throughout the design process.The envisioned tool will be referred to throughout this proposal as the Comparative Design Assessment Tool (CDAT).The CDAT tool will present a Graphical ...

A process is proposed for manufacturing low-cost, high-quality, GaN-on-Diamond wafers, so as to enable production of high-power RFICs at costs that substantially outperform their equivalent circuits manufactured on GaN-on-SiC. The process utilizes an epitaxial transfer approach in which gallium nitride is grown epitaxially on silicon carbide handle wafers, removed from the handles, and bonded to d ...

US Navy vessels and their components and equipment experience severe environmental conditions, leading to a level of unacceptable corrosion through a combination of sea water exposure, heat, humidity, UV exposure, and general inaccessibility for continual maintenance. Copper brush electroplating is the standard repair technique for many Navy corrosion repair applications, however this process is p ...

An SBIR Phase II program is proposed to continue the development of an innovative system called In-Water Container Lifting System (IWCLS).The IWCLS is to lift ISO shipping containers floating in the open ocean to the decks of Afloat Forward Staging Base and other vessels of opportunity.It fills a gap in enabling technology for lift-on/lift-off heavy container transfer in high sea conditions up to ...

In Phase II of this research and development effort, we will leverage our existing REDHAWK-enabled SDR product line to build a prototype tactical manpack REDHAWK-enabled Cognitive Radio (CR) device. This CR platform will be the foundation for the implementation of our Phase I algorithms and the extension of these algorithms to include spatial processing (e.g. Direction Finding (DF), spatial filter ...