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Job related hearing loss is a growing issue with active and retired military personnel. Ear protection is critical to prevent such injury, but personnel in variable pressure environments, such as pilots, often cannot use the best hearing protection due to pressure changes risking barotrauma. Current physiological monitoring systems can measure in-ear pressure levels, but require customized ear pie ...

Boston Engineerings proposed project significantly increases the Navys capabilities by providing a technology that performs superbly in tactically critical littoral and VSW applications currently unaddressed. We propose to advance the existing technology readiness level (TRL) by combining our GhostSwimmer AUV with actuation, sensing, payload, and processing technology as applicable. Our proposed p ...

The goal of the material identification reflectivity kernel (MIRK) MCM SBIR Phase II project is to demonstrate the capabilities of MIRK algorithms and software to improve the performance of existing MCM sonars by significantly reducing the number of false target calls that need to be investigated during the identification process. The Phase II efforts will focus on exploiting sonar returns to allo ...

Retractable mooring fixtures are a critical component on the flight deck of a DDG51 class Navy ship. The chocks and bitts must be recessed below the deck level for helicopter operations, while reliably and easily deployed for mooring situations. The current mooring fixtures do not stand up to the highly corrosive environment of the flight deck and the lack of maintenance reduces the reliability of ...

Composite materials, widely used in aircraft, reduce manufacturing cost, improve structural performance, and boost fuel efficiency. However, composites are susceptible to hidden heat damage, which may occur from fire, exhaust impingement, overheating, or during repairs. The earliest heat damage stage, referred to as incipient heat damage, may reduce upper use temperature, cause matrix mass loss, a ...

Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) has developed a nanoparticle chaff that yields an ultraviolet (UV) light absorbing cloud upon dissemination from a center burster cartridge. During the Phase I program we utilized UV extinction data, Mie Scattering calculations and cloud radiance models to optimize both the chemistry and particle size for the UV absorbing material. We have demonstrated chaff cloud for ...

Phase 2 contract will result in the development of a C-band PA and LNA with enhanced performance over existing products. The use of innovative topologies and lumped element layouts will result in a 50% reduction in die size. This reduction coupled with the use of yield enhancing current mirrors will drastically reduce the cost of the elements needed for these phased arrays.

In the proposed Phase II enhancement, SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to build on our Phase I and II efforts and continue to develop a wideband conformal antenna suite for incorporation into and employment on small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS) in support of various and selected radio payloads. The research, development, acquisition, and support of the conformal antenna suite will ...

Future high-speed heat seeking missiles require aerodynamic infrared dome shapes that reduce drag and provide a larger unvignetted field of view. These shapes require new fabrication methods and tools as well as new metrology techniques to accurately measure physical attributes and optical performance. Significant progress has been made in all aspects of producing an optical ogive dome from CeraNo ...

The proposed program will complete the final level of tooling scale up for a production machine dedicated to filler manufacturing. This scale up uses an approach that has been demonstrated previously and therefore has a low level of associated risk. Along with the tooling scale up, there will also be a finalization of the manufacturing process that will be used in conjunction with the large capaci ...