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A pneumatic hammer chisel end effector will be developed that uses a simple yet novel fluid routing system. The lightweight device is easily attached to existing MTRS arms and can generate the impact forces required to fracture concrete and packed soil. The end effector requires no modification to the operator control unit and only two connections to the MTRS: a mechanical interface to hold the to ...

The sensor data in the area of Navy Multi-INT could be multi-modal, including acoustic images, ocean profiles, infrared data, biometric data, vehicle tracking information, and facial profiles. Textual information, including intelligence reports or chat logs, will also be considered as sensor data. It is important to develop highly scalable and effective data warehousing and mining methods for in-d ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a very attractive, and often necessary, computational resource for many Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications. Their balance of performance, power consumption, and size make them ideally suited to SWAP-constrained sensor, communication, and guidance applications. However, the lengthy FPGA development and validation cycle, with limited application p ...

The proposed technology is a state-of-the-art computational mechanics capability to simulate fire-induced structural damage to Aluminum ships. Integrating this technology into the ASAP (Advanced Ship Analysis Program) ship survivability simulation allows fire-induced structural damage modeling to be combined with modeling of other damage mechanisms to gain a better understanding of total ship surv ...

The Phase II SBIR program will address a need for durable, infra-red transmitting sensor windows of large area, eventually as large as 32"x 32"x 0.5". Two areas of study are planned. The first is to improve optical quality, particularly homogeneity of refractive index and absence of stress birefringence, voids, bubbles and inclusions. The second is to improve mechanical strength for greater durabi ...

Underwater sensors, unmanned underwater vehicles, and other autonomous systems can all benefit from the availability of energy in remote or deep locations. In a Phase I effort, Maritime Applied Physics Corporation (MAPC) designed a modular, solid-state thermoelectric generator (TEG), based on the Seebeck/Peltier effect, using customized available components to extract electrical power from high te ...

Sophisticated radar antennas such as an active electronically scanned aperture (AESA) are used to support acquisition and tracking in multiple modes over wide bandwidths, monopulse tracking, and Sense and Avoid RADAR (SAA) for UAV applications. These multi-function radar systems are small but require a considerable amount of power, which in turn produces a significant amount of heat. For these sys ...

The Navy has expressed interest in shipboard high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable systems for power transmission and degaussing purposes. The practical application of such cable systems requires flexible superconducting cables and cable connectors that allow for a quick and reliable cable installation into, or removal from, its pre-installed cryostat. Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (A ...

This proposal targets the development of commercially viable Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process for the manufacturing of high voltage metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors for gallium nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) applications. In particular, this project objective is to provide a higher dielectric constant substitution for currently used dielectric layers, int ...

The Phase II.5 effort improves the Multi-Mission Aircraft Likelihood Ratio Tracker (MMALRT) Phase II capability with the the addition of an automated multi-static contact follower that significantly enhances active/passive fusion and improves multiple submarine search capability. The Phase II.5 approach will reduce the cost of executing the Increment 2 LRT integration by providing a head start on ...