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With evolutionary acquisition the preferred DoD strategy for rapid acquisition of mature technology, an evolutionary approach to easily update requirements validation techniques is required to enable delivering functional capability in increments. This evolutionary validation approach needs to recognize, up front, the need for future capability improvements and the subsequent adaptation of test va ...

Lightweight silicon-based ceramics are leading candidates to replace heavier nickel-based superalloys for hot section components used in advanced gas turbine engines having increased specific power. Unfortunately, exposures of these materials to the high temperature combustion environments alter the effectiveness of thermally grown silica scales in providing protection from oxidation and component ...

As part of SBIR N101-101, Metron proposes to perform calibration and validation of the Naval Simulation System (NSS) in support of mission-level modeling and simulation (M & S) at various USN Centers of Excellence (COEs), beginning with the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command (NMAWC) in San Diego. Under this Phase II.5 effort, Metron shall perform NSS calibration and validation in the co ...

Mosaic ATM's Autonomous Systems Group is actively developing technologies to accelerate F2T2EA operations. In Phase I, Mosaic ATM designed and prototyped the Automated Geopositional Feature-on-Video Overlay Service (AFOS) as a candidate system for real-time Multi-Source Imagery and Geopositional Exploitation (MSIGE). We propose to further develop and evaluate AFOS technologies during Phase II ...

The objective of this project is to build a Hypo-Hyperbaric Chamber System for use with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). MRI has proven to be the method of choice for detecting disease in soft tissue. It has found a wide range of applications in most parts of the body and for many diseases. This new tool will allow us to extend the reach of fMRI studies to hyperbaric applications and hyperbaric m ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and MIT have been developing tools and techniques that, together with existing 3D environment decisionmaking and navigation tools developed by AMRDEC in the PALACE program, are well-suited to the problem of autonomous vertical landing on unprepared landing sites. In this program, Aurora will team with MIT researchers and UC Santa Cruz (UCSC licenses PALACE technologies for A ...

Towed arrays provide the potential for creating synthetic elements located a fraction of the distance between the actual elements, thus sampling the spatial field at a higher rate and allowing for operation at higher frequencies without grating lobes. Synthetic elements may also be used to fill in for failed sensors. The ability of a passive synthetic aperture sonar (PSAS) towed array system to ac ...

The Phase I effort of the SBIR program culminated in the development of algorithms, toolsets and interfaces to detect human activity from video and improve the operator"s wide area situational awareness of live feeds from multiple video sensors in the battlefield. In Phase II, we plan to extend this technology and achieve the following objectives: 1) utilization of scene context extraction algorit ...

Impact Technologies and Montana State University (MSU) are developing a Dynamic Prognostic and Health Management (PHM) modeling capability and related test, validation, and support toolsets that will enable standardized approaches to model representation, information exchange, and PHM system support, providing for improved integration, interoperability and reuse of developed and emerging capabilit ...

Modern software typically integrates a number of third-party commercial components. The indiscriminate use of such components poses significant security threats to software systems because the components may harbor unintentional vulnerabilities as well as intentionally malicious behaviors. Moreover, third-party components often come only in binary form preventing most existing security-analysis to ...