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Rotorcraft landing and takeoff is dangerous in environments where obstacles, particularly wires or power lines, exist, and pilot vision is degraded by obscurants such as dust, smoke, fog, rain and snow. This SBIR would focus on a radar solution to detecting wires and power cables when landing in a visually degraded environment. Existing data for wires and power lines with millimeter wave radars pr ...

Haptic feedback provides an alternative or additional path to convey geospatially referenced information from tablets and other portable devices. This benefits persons with disabilities and also enhances servicemen responsiveness in high work-load situations.Lynntech proposes to develop geospatial haptic feedback on COTS tablets or smart-phones using a new technology that provide a very natural fe ...

The superior strength-to-weight ratio of composites has prompted expanded usage in tactical missiles. However, increasing mission demands are driving the need for higher performance from lower cost composite materials. Matrix resins used for production of tactical missile composites evolved from strategic missile applications, where cost and production rates are less critical. In response to this ...

Lynntech proposes to use classical phage genetics to construct bacteriophages that are inherently stable over extended periods of time and are capable of interacting with biological threat agents. We will genetically modify bacteriophages to display peptide ligands that specifically bind the biological threat agent, B. anthracis. These phages will be dried and stored under a number of environmenta ...

To provide a reduced-order computational tool for prediction of propeller-airframe interaction noise, the team of Techsburg and AVEC proposes to enhance and unify existing methods and tools for predicting inflow distortion noise currently in use by the team for design of low-noise propulsion systems. This streamlined and user-friendly inflow noise modeling tool will be called the Installed Propell ...

Composite structures are increasingly replacing traditional metallic materials in aerospace platforms due to their high strength to weight ratios, manipulative properties, and corrosion resistance.Unfortunately, these systems tend to be brittle and typically do not resist or tolerate damage as well.To combat this issue, composite components are often designed with increased thickness, component re ...

The Army desires a laser source with the ability to vary the pulse width from 2 ns to160 ns, while maintaining constant energy per pulse. A secondary desire is to vary output energy from 1 to 10 mJ, with a limit of 500kW. Fibertek has developed a novel approach to meet both of these goals. Fibertek will also develop a design for electronics control and cooling and a Graphical User Interface. Fiber ...

Army howitzer gun tubes made from high strength gun steel, which is affordable and strong but susceptible to corrosion.They are also susceptible to stress corrosion cracking because they are autofrettaged.Field usage causes pitting and cracking in bore evacuator holes.The Army needs an affordable method of detecting, typing (Pit Crack Cracked pit) and sizing corrosion damage in bore evacuator hole ...

The U.S. Army is need of anti-corrosive surface treatment technologies to be applied onto its current armament inventory. Specifically, the Army is in need of laser treatment technologies that will be able to treat large surfaces as well as difficult geometries in efforts to prevent corrosion and deterioration of its military arsenal and equipment. Current, anti-corrosion technologies are limited ...

MATSYS proposes to develop and demonstrate novel Ag-based alloy with nanocrystalline microstructure and a scalable manufacturing process that would preserve the microstructure of the starting material and can be used for cost-effective fabrication of shaped charge and explosively formed penetrator (EFP) liner applications. The current material of choice for shaped charges is either copper or molyb ...