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KaZaK Composites proposes to design and demonstrate innovative, low cost pultrusion technology that meets DD(X) structural requirements, and could significantly reduce the finished cost of composite ship structures compared to VARTM. A database of design information is required to confidently commit to the use of a material in ship structures. It has been KCI's assertion that the pultrusion proce ...

Basic Digital RF Memory (DRFM) theory is well understood, mature and low-risk, having been demonstrated and used in multiple applications over many years. DRFM practice and technology have stagnated over the last several years due to the lack of investment in the technology base and rapid digitization of the weapon systems with which DRFMs must interact. With the current Force Transformation obj ...

In this Phase II program Foster-Miller will design, build and install on Naval platforms a radically different type of oil condition monitor, the Lubricant Quality Sensor (LQS). This sensor will be designed to probe the fluid quality of a variety of synthetic and diesel lubricants applicable to both military and commercial platforms. The LQS builds on the successful Phase I demonstration of the ...

Candent Technologies is developing an innovative small gas turbine engine capable of improved fuel efficiency and low production and development costs. This engine system is applicable to the next generation of unmanned aircraft systems. The Phase II program will conduct a full scale demonstration of this innovative engine technology.

Foster-Miller will demonstrate an innovative, low cost and health hazard-free ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material to effectively substitute beryllium and its alloys in EKV optical structures. We previously demonstrated an affordable and scalable processing route to produce high performance and complex shaped CMC materials. During Phase I, mechanical and thermal properties of our low cost SiC m ...

MSI has developed a method of producing solid state converted (SSC) relaxor ferroelectrics that involved recrystallization through the addition of orientable seeds that act as nucleation sites in the ceramic matrix. MSI has explored both integrated seed and epitaxial approaches to SSC. SSC has been demonstrated to produce a highly textured material with property enhancements. One remaining obst ...

Energid Technologies proposes a realistic haptics-optional simulator designed for surgical training. The design is modular, with components that can build simulations for different applications and levels of fidelity--with and without haptics feedback. The simulation interface is untethered, without a physical connection to surgical tools. Machine vision is used to track the tools, and a novel ...

A low cost, broad bandwidth, acoustic homing array is needed for the Mk 54 torpedo to replace the lagacy Mk 50 array that was designed for blue water operation and is no longer in production. Under this Phase II SBIR program, MSI proposes to design and develop an upgraded array capable of improved performance in littoral undersea warfare using its proven low cost injection molded 1-3 piezocomposit ...

An essential capability of an information gathering architecture is the ability to adapt to dynamic re-tasking requirements (i.e. the ability to manage real-time moding, pointing, and directing of ISR sensors) commensurate with the decision-making time scale of tactical, battlefield operations. Reliance on reactive dynamic re-tasking alone is likely to require excessive sensing resources to meet ...

Complex engineered systems such as the power systems of most military platforms involve a broad spectrum of technologies and interactive subsystems that must work synergistically. Due to the interdependencies between subsystems, it is becoming increasingly important to establish a simulation infrastructure that accurately accounts for the interactions between subsystems and promotes the collaborat ...