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ASI will leverage its recent work in small form factor HF, VHF and UHF RF direction finding to accelerate and risk reduce Navys Spectrum Monitoring payload. In this Phase I SBIR, ASI will deliver analysis and system descriptions for the antenna subsystem and its calibration, the RF and digital processing subsystems and ScanEagle integration. For the antenna subsystem, ASI will leverage its RF prop ...

The Tonpilz design for SONAR transducers is widely used in large arrays in acoustic systems for undersea threat detection, weapons guidance, communication and the like. Exploiting single crystal piezoelectrics in Tonpilz transducers has led to single transducer elements with enhanced bandwidth, sensitivity, and source level in a smaller, lighter package when compared with legacy piezoceramic eleme ...

n this SBIR project, Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) defines and develops a concept by which high fidelity knowledge of the shipboard electromagnetic wave propagation environment can be predicted. This system is used to measure signals of opportunity such as broadcast TV/radio, aircraft transponders, maritime radars, GPS and other signals that have known transmitter locations (via databases, informa ...

Military and open-source data contain a wealth of information about entities of interest to US and coalition forces. This information is in the form of unstructured text, audio, imagery, video, SIGINT, and structured data. Intelligence analysts have access to these distributed, disparate data sources but are severely limited in exploiting the information. The success of military and security opera ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and the Lockheed Martin Sippican propose to develop a new propulsion system to increase the top speed of an EMATT (Expendable Mobile ASW Training Target) vehicle to 14 knots. Aurora and Lockheed will leverage the vehicle concepts developed in Phase I to downselect critical propulsion components and generate a preliminary design to integrate the high-speed propulsion system i ...

Advancements in submarine quieting technologies have made the threats faced by the U.S. Navy increasingly difficult to localize using traditional passive acoustic sonar. This difficulty has renewed interest in optimizing the performance of active sonars such the Low Frequency Active (LFA) and Compact Low Frequency Active (CLFA) systems for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System. LFA and CLFA w ...

The US Navy requires a Reliable Acoustic Path A-sized sonobuoy system. Major technical challenges include long distance data telemetry from near the deep ocean floor, sensor design to reduce electronic noise to exploit the environment, flow and vertical motion induced noise mitigation, and deployment and packaging given A-size buoy constraints.The Phase I effort demonstrated the practicality of a ...

Prognostics and health management (PHM) technology is critical for monitoring, detecting, and managing impending faults and enabling proactive maintenance of electronic systems before actual failures occur. This is essential to enhancing weapons system availability and maintaining a high level of mission readiness and system affordability. Current PHM advancements have focused on developing physic ...

Progeny Systems has performed analysis and preliminary design of an Expendable Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (ExCTD) sensor that can be launched from the 3 launcher on the submarine during the SBIR Phase I effort. The ExCTD can launch, ascend toward the surface, flood (change buoyancy) and then descend to sample the water column every 10 feet during ascent and every 5 feet during descent at ...

The introduction of new sensors into the Navy combat systems is risk prone due to the lack of complex simulation of the sensors. The ability to simulate predicted faults with data from a complex ocean simulation can reduce integration issues and cost. The simulation would also reduce the time it takes to introduce new sensors into the fleet by allowing the tactical system to update, test, and tune ...