Award Data

Project OAR (Oceanographic Augmented Reality) is a software-based tool that leverages embodied cognition with augmented and virtual reality to create highly engaging and impactful oceanographic training. With OAR, trainees will see oceanographic animated behaviors up close and from several angles to help ensure learning. The project brings together education researchers, software developers, and o ...

Global Technology Connection, Inc., in collaboration with its academic and industrial partners, proposes to develop a software tool that will incorporate systematic wavelet-analysis-based approach for addressing fatigue in a rotary H-60 helicopter (and aerospace applications in general). This fatigue spectrum editing tool will preserve fatigue damage and minimize testing times and costs as well as ...

R-DEX Systems proposes to team with the University of Southern California to develop the Spatial-Diversity Communication Link (SD-Link), a free-space optical (FSO) communications system for reliable and high-capacity wireless communications. The proposed SD-Link will build on the team's previous published work in FSO communications using spatial diversity and the team's previous STTR collaboration ...

The Central Atmospheric Monitoring System (CAMS) IIA used in U.S. Navy submarines has been a reliable and crucial component for the operational safety of submarine crew for 40 years. While the CAMS has been updated slightly, there are lingering unresolvable issues. The proposed sensor is based on two different methods that will be incorporated into a single instrument. The first uses an optical pa ...

Industrial control systems (ICS) are the nervous systems of modern day ships, controlling the engines, power generation and distribution, ballasts, and other key systems. Unfortunately these ICS networks are all too often insecure by design and completely ignored by network monitoring and intrusion detection systems. Current ICS network security products offer little more than basic monitoring and ...

MSI has over twenty years experience in design and delivery of crash-hardened health monitoring systems (HMS) for DoD agencies. MSI proposes to produce cybersecure HMS for real time collection and processing of data with cybersecure offload capable of receiving inputs in various data formats from onboard sensors for processing and/or storage on removable or uploadable media for future analysis. Th ...

The current exponential growth of energy consumption in supercomputers and data centers has become an ecological and economical problem for simple reasons of power delivery, power dissipation and heat removal. To go on with the exponential growth in the use of information we need to continue reducing the energy required to handle each bit. This reduction, however, becomes an increasingly harder pr ...

Future battlefields employing directed energy technologies will require an electronic Battle Damage Indicator (eBDI) tool that can measure the radiated Radio Frequency (RF) emissions from a target before and after a High Power RF (HPRF) attack and determine if target electronics have been significantly disrupted. We propose an innovative eBDI using a system so compact, lightweight and inexpensive ...

For MIDS JTRS designers who face increasing heat loads with existing thermal designs that limit system performance, the LoadPath Advanced Solutions to Enable Next-generation Terminals (ASENT) is a conjugate thermal solution that enables simple integration of a collection of advanced thermal enhancements to overcome this challenge. Unlike traditional designs that rely on standard thermal technologi ...

Thermal batteries are single discharge reserve batteries that provide very long shelf life, minimal self-discharge, wide storage temperature range, fast activation under sudden power demand, and also wide range of temperature operating conditions. Such unique properties among electrochemical power systems are provided with application of molten salt electrolyte, which is in solid form under normal ...