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Naval Special Warfare (NSW) teams often use underwater vehicles (UVs) for clandestine transport into highly sensitive littoral areas. The current sonar suites on the existing vehicles do not include a system for detecting and identifying active sonar transmissions, making the vehicle and the SEALs susceptible to detection by active sonar systems on manned and unmanned surface and subsurface surve ...

Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) propose to develop and test a system that uses existing signal processing algorithms coupled with innovative construction technology developed ISL under our E-Field sensor programs and FAU under UUV programs. The Challenge is to develop a small system package with the capability to intercept active threat emissions early ...

In Phase I of this program, Redondo Optics Inc. (ROI), proposes to design, build, and demonstrate to the Navy a next generation, stand-alone and fully integrated, dynamically reconfigurable, adaptive fiber optic acoustic emission sensor (FAESense™) system for the in-situ unattended detection and localization of shock events, impact damage, cracks, voids, and delaminations in new and aging DoD cr ...

As the Navy continues to reduce personnel to perform in multiple roles in at-sea environments, traditional training approaches that rely on extensive “on-the-job” training no longer suffice. The need today is to maximize cognitive readiness on the part of shipboard personnel while compressing the learning cycle. Achieving the latter requires optimally tailoring experiences in realtime to the p ...

We shall develop state-of-the-art algorithms and software to rapidly restore degraded videos and images where the nature of the degradation is not well detailed. We shall use revolutionary new mathematical techniques involving total variation and nonlocal total variation blind restoration and oversampling, compressive sensing, Bregman iteration, graph cuts and fast nonlocal filtering.

When flight testing missiles and other high performance vehicles, flight instrumentation antennas are required to support telemetry, data link, flight termination systems (flight safety), and tracking beacons. Integration of these antennas onto the test missiles creates challenges with respect to modifying their aerodynamic characteristics (drag) and radar cross section (RCS). Rock West Solution p ...

The utility of precision strike weapon flight testing is critically dependent on the use of fleet-representative test articles. The Navy has a need for a suite of flight test antennas that allow communication with the weapon under test without impacting the weapon’s aerodynamic or observability characteristics. Toyon proposes to design a suite of antennas for operation of flight termination, Lin ...

To address the Navy’s need for smart, configurable, aircraft electrical monitoring, management, and protection, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Advanced Avionics Electrical Load Manager (AVALON). It is based on a new combination of COTS SoC FPGAs, power monitoring and control electronics, and surge protection hardware. Specifically, the innovation is a first of its ki ...