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Many currently fielded medical devices are adapted from civilian emergency medical operations and are not designed to function in the austere operating environments of the armed forces. Patient litter systems are incapable of meeting acceleration and crash requirements set forth in the Joint Enroute Care Equipment Test Standard (JECETS). In addition to these mechanical performance requirements tha ...

The Navy"s need to analyze data from aircraft platforms for Maintenance, Operations, Safety and Training purposes is expanding exponentially as a result of new platforms and sensor systems capable of producing and storing vast amounts of data. Data is currently recorded in unique formats preventing aggregate data analysis. Creation of a common data format across platforms has proven cost prohibiti ...

Thermal batteries are single discharge reserve batteries that provide very long shelf life, minimal self-discharge, wide storage temperature range, fast activation under sudden power demand, and also wide range of temperature operating conditions. Such unique properties among electrochemical power systems are provided with application of molten salt electrolyte, which is in solid form under normal ...

Yardney will design and develop a lightweight, safe, reliable, and cost-effective aircraft battery with improved thermal design and the use of active cooling techniques. As a novel part of the battery design, Yardney will investigate and implement high performance electrodes using three dimensional (3D) micro-porous current collectors, safer thin metal case cell design, a micro-channel heat pipe t ...

Carrier phase measurements in GPS are well known to enable precision performance. However, GPS is easily degraded or jammed. Carrier phase measurements in a local radio system, on the other hand, is much easier due to its much stronger signal level compared with GPS. In this proposal GIRD Systems will investigate feasibility of precise positioning techniques based on carrier phase measurements fr ...

Currently, difficulties in modeling non-linear behavior and damage modes of carbon-carbon (C/C) composites beyond simplified in-plane models prevent accurate assessment of bending load and thermal stress effects in interlaminar directions where the stress limits can be significantly lower than in-plane stress limits. To this end, the proposed Phase I SBIR program seeks to develop and refine a new ...

The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) work together to provide perimeter protection for the naval forces. Maintaining persistent connectivity with the UUVs/USVs is critical to the success of the operations. GIRD Systems proposes to develop a new waveform that can provide anti-jamming (AJ) protection while support high data rate li ...

The US Navy is seeking to reduce the man-hours, sampling errors, and time delays associated with oil monitoring by implementing real-time, in-line oil monitors. The primary concerns that should be addressed by an in-line sensor are particulate, water, and microbial contamination. However, there is also a desire for the sensor to monitor other physical properties like viscosity, specific gravity, a ...

Accelerated insertion of new high-performance materials, as envisioned by the Materials Genome Initiative and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering paradigm, necessitates a detailed understanding of the interrelated variability of microstructural features and resultant material performance. In this solicitation, MRL proposes to develop a process for incorporation of such mesoscale variab ...

Our team will investigate a multiscale modeling framework to predict the final microstructure of a dual phase Ti 6-4 component as a function of thermo-mechanical processing. The microstructure properties will vary locally throughout the part, and will include features such as grain size, phase volume fraction, morphology of grains and phases, and the data structure representations will be scalabl ...