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Leveraging our experience and expertise in robot development and system integration (hardware and software) as well as deep learning for agricultural applications, Hitron Technologies Inc. (HTI) proposes to develop an Intelligent Remote Egg Oiling System (IREOS), with the collaboration of University of South Carolina (USC). The IREOS allows for effective nuisance bird management by performing auto ...

KaZaK Technologies team members are proposing several concepts to meet Navy requirements for development of innovative approaches to meet the solicitation’s primary objective for a low parasitic flywheel energy system (FES). Our team will work to design a FES to minimize purchase and operating costs. KaZaK efforts to design, fabricate and test a shipboard FES will meet Navy requirements. To acco ...

As submarine threats from adversary countries continue to rise, the U.S. Navy must maintain and expand its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Warfighter readiness is the linchpin of the Navy’s ASW strategy, but the complexity of the ASW domain necessitates time-consuming training, and practical experiences to transfer those skills to the operational environment. Innovative training appro ...

As the nature of Naval warfare changes due to increasing technological innovations and adversarial capabilities, the US Navy must maintain its edge by continuing to invest in and develop sailor training. One technology area that is integral to the Navy’s future success regards the capability to enhance its distributed lethality by aggregating disparate sensor networks to create a common situatio ...

Simply encrypted data storage is unable to prevent data loss or compromise if the storage device is damaged or compromised by an adversary. Distributed data storage is the alternative that divides the original data into fragments and secretly stored them on distributed devices with certain redundancy. The original data can be fully recovered by a user from a subset of storage nodes and the adversa ...

CEPEDA's Shipboard Cardboard Preprocessing System utilizes modular sensing and stripping sections that ensure all tape and plastic labels are removed from the input cardboard. An innovative sensor has been conceived and tested on the bench top that can accurately distinguish tape and labels on cardboard from the bare cardboard. Testing has also demonstrated the ability to distinguish both tap ...

We investigate a problem of significant practical importance, namely, the recovery of the data matrix from a partial set of its entries that are collected in a noisy environment (i.e., a noisy partial matrix). Our proposed Near-Optimal Matrix Completion (NOMC) target to provide a leading approach that can improve the matrix completion accuracy. Two types of data matrix are considered. The first ty ...

In traditional GMAW and modifications, the current melting the wire is the same as the current heating the base metal. To maintain a minimally acceptable productivity, the base metal heat input is typically much greater than the required to control the distortion at an acceptable or desirable level. In the modified GMAW proposed, a bypass torch is added to an existing GMAW system to bypass part of ...

Two different approaches will be investigated for producing aluminum alloys with a layer structure that have mechanical properties similar to Al 7050-T7 and Al 7075-T6 and greatly improved corrosion resistance. Layered aluminum alloys will be produced using the Novelis-Fusion™ casting process. This process is very cost effective and has been demonstrate on commercial products. The other appro ...

The objective of this program is develop high strength aluminum alloys ( as high strength as that of 7075-T6) that would not require anodization to achieve corrosion resistance. Among the Al alloy systems, only 7xxx and Al-Cu-Li alloy systems are capable of such a high strength level of 7075-T6 properties ( design minimum tensile yield stress of 75 ksi). Therefore, only these two alloy systems ...