Award Data

The continuing terrorist attacks on U.S. forces deployed in Iraq have created an urgent need for lightweight transparent armor with improved ballistic protection capabilities against emerging threats. However, current transparent armor systems for eye and facial protection use polycarbonate, which do not provide sufficient protections to our soldiers. The goal of this Phase II project is to devel ...

The proposed work will extend the studies conducted during Phase I to an actual demonstration of weapons typing assessment using data available at the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) X-Lab at the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC). The SciTec and JHU/APL team will develop a weapons typing assessment module for the Hit assessment, Weapons typing, and Kill A ...

Current geo-technical measurement systems are low resolution and generally require significant research vessel support. In this SBIR, the OASIS/WHOI team proposes to build a system that will remotely, autonomously and rapidly estimate and map shear strength parameters using state-of-the art Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) technology. The AUV-based Acoustic Sediment Classifier (ASC) is an inno ...

Dindl Firearms Manufacturing, Inc. will demonstrate the use of an expanding 40mm high explosive warhead to produce the desired blast characteristics at the target. A low risk design is being used where the explosive payload weight is similar to the existing M100 GREM. The blast characteristics will be accomplished by expanding annd reshaping the explosive payload at the target. Modeling and sim ...

The main objective of this proposal is to build on the efforts of the Army SBIR Phase I project to finalize the design and development of a superior lightweight and comfortable flame resistant garment made of nonwoven composite fabric. The goal is to significantly elevate the fire and thermal protection properties of these next generation composite fabrics over conventional Nomex® at lower cost. ...

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) materials present unique benefits to the control and stabilization of hypersonic projectiles. Midé and the University of Colorado at Boulder is concluded in Phase I that SMA materials offer distinct advantages for the control of hypersonic projectile through the development and analysis of concepts that could achieve the desired flight control characteristics within the ...

The objective of this Phase II program is to implement, demonstrate and validate the computational techniques that were developed in Phase I that can be used for materials-damage based prognosis of gas turbine engine components and component assemblies. This approach will consist of a probabilistic multi-axial three-dimensional non-linear structural analysis method to enable the implementation of ...

The Modular Software Architecture for Advanced Weather Radars project seeks to develop a modular weather processing software architecture and software algorithm blocks (modules) that can be applied to various commercial and military radar systems. This Phase II effort will build upon the architecture and data format defined in the Phase I report to develop a fully functional set of modular algori ...

This proposal presents the VAMAV system (Visual Awareness/Avoidance for a Micro Air Vehicle) for monocular visual collision detection and avoidance. Real time collision detection will be implemented using a time-to-collision approach based on area moment estimates of expansion from globally optimal image segmentation. This approach does not require explicit optical flow computations, and avoids n ...

The accumulation of ethylene in the transport and storage of fresh produce is an important problem for the US Army and for commercial agriculture. Certain fruits and vegetables generate ethylene as a natural part of their ripening cycle. Other fruits and vegetables are highly sensitive to the presence of ethylene, but may or may not produce the ethylene themselves. Small amounts of ethylene can in ...