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In this SBIR program, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) will develop infrared (IR) antireflection (AR) coatings, which can be applied conformally to the interior of ogive shaped missile domes. SMI will develop the coating materials, the coating process, and the commercial coating equipment for implementation in Phase III. The proposed coatings will provide optimum antireflection properti ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes a simple, lightweight and regenerable system to detect and filter out contaminants in-situ via a concept originally developed and validated for NASA spacecraft life-support. It will be designed to permit drop-in integration with the OBOGS pilot breathing system and complement its operation. It will clean up pilot breathing air, protect OBOGS sorbent impair ...

Functional and information gaps have emerged in the systems that provide logistics support for U.S. Navy Food Service operations aboard ships and at shore galleys. These shortfalls have manifested themselves as inefficient workflows, extensive rework, unsatisfactory financial audit readiness, and can often result in a lack of available menu items on fleet mess decks. The Sonalysts Team proposes th ...

We propose a novel and secure solution for an advanced battlefield communication system. The proposed headset communication system provides improved communication, localization, and auditory preservation for combat and training scenarios. The system leverages advanced digital signal processing technologies developed at our company. During Phase I, we will demonstrate a real headset prototype with ...

High voltage, high efficiency current conducting switches are needed for future high power naval applications. Current commercial Si devices do not meet this need. High quality thick film GaN is a promising alternative with the theoretical capability of providing the needed performance; however, it is presently very difficult to produce such thick films reasonably in existing GaN film growth tools ...

OPT proposes to develop an innovative optical-mooring (OM) system for small communications buoys that uses a variable-buoyancy cable over-sheath that shapes the OM cable to provide compliance.

To realize the full potential of autonomous systems, it is imperative that they behave safely, correctly, ethically, and legally. Providing these assurances through offline verification alone is insufficient, due to the complex and changing nature of autonomous systems. Online monitoring and corrective actions are necessary to account for uncertainties, and to increase trust between a human superv ...

Lidar operates as a pair of synchronized photon emitter and receiver, where the receiver detects the emitted photons reflected from the target. The photon emission is temporally modulated into pulses, and the receiver detects the temporal modulation in the reflected photons and derives target range information, similar to the radar. The most common temporal modulation in lidars is by laser pulses ...

Sonalysts proposes to develop COA Battle Rehearsal and visualization Aid in 5-Dimensions (COBRA 5D), an innovative enhanced situational awareness and continuous maritime COA analysis and planning tool that extends surface Navy Battle Management Aids (BMAs) currently in development. COBRA 5D will enable rapid prototyping and demonstrate the feasibility of innovative dynamic and colorimetric tactica ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) proposes a Cyber-Resiliency Modeling and Assessment Framework leveraging its expertise in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches, which facilitates cross-system risk-assessment of cyber-vulnerabilities, and analysis-of-options (AoA) studies in an ICS (Industrial Control System) architecture. An MBSE approach coupled with Risk Engineering would yield a compre ...