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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 ...

Nuclear batteries have enormous potential as power sources and have many benefits over other types of portable power sources. Nuclear batteries can provide power for at least as long as the isotope half-life and the energetic nature of nuclear radiation means that only a small mass of radioisotope material is required to achieve a high power output and therefore they can have power densities that ...

An Interactive Structural Analysis Environment and Management System (iSAMS), designed to support the practice of simulation governance of engineered repairs of metallic and composite aircraft structures, is enhanced, certified and deployed for production deployment. Repairs to modern military aircraft require certified engineering analysis methods. Methods have evolved with the history of airfram ...

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 ...

The computational framework designed to meet the technical requirements of Simulation Governance with the goal of enabling reliable predictions of damage accumulation caused by cyclic loading in metallic airframe components that have small initial flaws, will be validated at the component level. The predictive performance of the model to determine the remaining fatigue life of mechanical component ...

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 ...

Throughout the SBIR Phase I, it was shown that it is possible to develop a solution which was capable of procedurally identifying and generating the support structures necessary for powder bed additive manufacturing (AM). In addition, it was shown that this new combination of support structures greatly increases the likelihood of a quality build. Upon this body of knowledge, the Phase II base will ...

The purpose of this agreement is to expand OpenDDS to be usable by all FACE application developers.OpenDDS is an open source native C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG)Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems Specification. It is also available wrapped for Java use. DDS defines a strongly typed publish-subscribe service for efficiently distributing application data betwee ...

In this STTR effort nGimat will partner with the University of Kentucky to develop a new process for manufacturing scandia-doped tungsten powder for use in vacuum tube cathode devices. While a significant amount of research over the last several decades has shown promise for scandate cathode materials, reliable manufacturing processes that enable commercialization of this technology have remained ...

ATI will develop new nanocomposite aluminum alloys that are castable, weldable, and have properties comparable to Al 7050 T-74. ATI will develop and characterize the master alloys and provide the alloys in the form weld wire and billets to the Applied Research Lab of the Pennsylvania State University for processing. The billets will be melted and atomized to produce powder. The powder will be char ...