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The current steam based sterilizers of US military has a number of shortcomings including lack of portability and high use of water. It is highly desirable to develop a high portable, efficient and water independent sterilizer for Navy applications. The proposing team will develop a field-ruggedized medical device for providing field sterilization of surgical instruments, tools, trays, and other r ...

Sequent Logic is proposing a fiber-optic condition-based management platform that addresses the Navy’s need for an intelligent, adaptable, reconfigurable, scalable, expandable, reliable, compact, and affordable means of passively and actively monitoring temperature, strain, vibration, and acoustic emissions, and that is capable of characterizing material anomalies and fatigue to predict time-to- ...

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 ...

Rigid Wall Shelters (RWS) are an integral building block for Marine Corp operations and support a multitude of operational needs from maintenance and repair operations to command posts and medical operations. There are several critical operational deficiencies with metal RWS. The weight of legacy systems and lack of insulation result in a high cost to transport and difficulty heating and cooling i ...

Develop innovative methods and associated tools to support the definition of Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) capabilities and their individual instruments using an Open Architecture (OA) approach, to allow for precise understanding of the ATE, interoperability across Navy and DoD electronics maintenance, and improved utilization of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tools to support ATE operations. Th ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOME CERAMICS HAVE VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE STABILITY AND STRENGTH COMPARED TO STRUCTURAL METALS AND HAVE POTENTIAL TO BE USED UNCOOLED IN ADVANCED GAS TURBINE ENGINES. ONE CANDIDATE FAMILY OF CERAMICS WITH AN ESPECIALLY GOOD COMBINATION OF THERMAL PROPERTIES AND POTENTIAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IS SILICON NITRIDE. RECENTLY DEVELOPED ALLOYS OF SILICON NITRIDE LOOK PARTICULARLY PROMISING, BUT REQUIRE F ...