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Noisy cockpits lead to higher workload during flight, compromised radio communications and excessive fatigue in pilots post flight. Excessive noise in cockpit also results in a temporary shift of the auditory threshold known as a Temporary Threshold Shift(TTS). At low frequencies, the helmet itself starts resonating at the characteristic frequency of the helmet close to the excitation source frequ ...

For Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) programs to help the Strike Group (SG) Operational availability (Ao) and logistics efficiency, the Navy needs an effective decision support system (DSS). Visualization of the PHM data will enable the decision makers to easily interpret the results of the DSS and make decisions that are more consistent with maxi ...

In the Phase I Base, the TSC/UMD team proposes to develop a 2D risk-based path planning method that employs an open-architecture database of population density and ground structures for rapid UAS mission planning. Optimization techniques developed by UMD for unmanned aircraft flight planning will be integrated with TSC's SafeFlight mission path planning software tool to demonstrate this new capabi ...

The overall and principal objective in the Phase I effort will be determining the feasibility of an algorithmic approach to yield reliable and reduced target AOUs in an air deployed multi-static active sonar field. The feasibility will be based on the realized accuracy gains; achieving real-time data turn-around; and the computer information processing (IP) resources needed for estimating AOUs in ...

Signal Systems Corporation will develop Buoy Localization and Uncertainty Estimation (BLUE) which will accurately estimate areas of uncertainty for selected target echoes. The area of uncertainty will be significantly reduced by incorporating advanced buoy localization methods and by retrospective multiple hypothesis tracking on selected receivers with lower detection thresholds. The buoy localiza ...

The integration of data from numerous, disparate sources makes the transformation of those data into actionable information extremely difficult. Applying analysis, synthesis, and predictive modeling techniques using human interaction is impractical, especially for converting data to information in situations which are rapidly changing and in which human life might be at risk, e.g. battlefield. Com ...

We propose an all-fiber approach to heat removal from devices such as IR and LWIR detectors and sensors. In our approach, the cooling fibersegment, the pump fiber laser, and the optical fiber used for photon waste removal are all integrated into a single fiber configuration. NPPhotonics' high efficiency fiber lasers are used to pump high purity doped glass fibers, which provide the cooling action ...

The United States Navy (and Armed forces in general) currently uses radios such as AN/PRC-150 and AN/PRC-117G to provide beyond line of sight (BLOS) communications capabilities to the ships and other vehicles. These radios use high frequency communications and satellite communications to provide beyond line of sight communications. These essential links supplement line of sight communication radio ...

For a successful mission, the planning of the route based on communication link availability is important. The communication links are used to support functions of command and control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The RF link performance depends on distance between transmitter and receiver, frequency, antenna, propagation channel and also the communication s ...

Advances in semiconductor technologies, including Gallium nitride (GaN) and Silicon carbide (SiC), are allowing for the wider use of solid-state devices in modern radar systems. These devices include direct digital synthesizers and their associated memories, i.e. numerical look up tables for reprogrammable radar parameters, as well as solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). Since solid-state systems ...