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Hyperspectral imagery produces images that include colors both within and beyond the range of colors that can be seen by the human eye. Hyperspectral Imagery allows for the classification, identification, and detection of vegetation phenomena that relate to the agricultural industry, including: plant species identification, insect and disease detection and monitoring, stress detection, soil qualit ...

The Navy desires a system on board the Zumwalt Class guided missile destroyers (DDG 1000) to manage the deployment and retrieval of a variety of craft or other assets from the boat bay to the sea and back to expand the capability of the ship class in support the Navys future needs. Current launch and recovery systems for boat bays are designed for specific craft, not allowing for damage-free inter ...

An innovative system called Adaptable Boat Deployment and Retrieval System (ABDRS) is proposed to safely handle a variety of current and future crafts and other assets from the boat bay of DDG 1000 class in seas up to sea state 5 conditions. It employs a tethered sled to interface the returning vehicle outside of the boat bay. The sled is purposely designed to be adaptable to different ship hull f ...

Navys ship-to-shore cargo transfer operations, supported by the INLS, is largely dependent on local wave characteristics for decision making and throughput planning. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), along with its subcontractor Lockheed Martin (LM), propose to develop a Wave Characteristics Measurement System (WCMS) based on state-of-the-art deep learning algorithm to estimate ...

High performance (directional) phased array antennas increase achievable data rates and communication ranges, enable secure links, and in an Electronic Warfare (EW) setting, increase power on target, and reduce fratricide. However, todays monolithic arrays are too heavy, expensive, and power hungry. The ability to form an ad-hoc phased array, from randomly distributed single antennas would be a hu ...

Atmospheric monitoring on U.S. Navy submarines has been primarily based on mass spectrometry. However, the high cost of repair and the lack of field serviceability are drawbacks to this technique. Vescent Photonics proposes to design a dual comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared (3-12 m) wavelength region as an alternative atmospheric monitoring system. Dual comb spectroscopy can achieve high signa ...

The DoD family of automatic test systems (ATS), primarily interfaces with conventional data buses and is unable to support modern, high-speed digital data buses. Because the latest aircraft avionics and weapons systems are now incorporating high-speed buses such as SATA, IEEE 802.11 WLAN, IEEE 1394 FireWire, and USB, there is an immediate need to integrate high-speed bus testing into DoD ATS. With ...

Current submarine air revitalization systems use liquid and/or solid amine-based carbon dioxide (CO2) removal technologies. The legacy hardware, using the liquid amines, is prone to scaling and other complications from the use of a liquid. These solvents also have a short lifetime which requires frequent replacement, and generates hazardous material wastes that are complicated to handle.TDA Resear ...

As the Anti-submarine warfare (ASuW) and anti-air warfare (AAW) threats become more sophisticated, it is important for the surveillance and tracking algorithms to be able to detect and track these threats in the presence of heavy sea clutter. A fundamental problem is that accurate models of the environment and radar/IR returns are needed in order for the algorithms to be trained and validated. The ...

The next generation of Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) radio terminals are currently under development and the Navy is in need of improved thermal management to enable the current state of the art signal processing capabilities within the currently deployed fleet environment. Roccor proposed to leverage its FlexCoolTM technology in partnership with ViaSat to design, develop ...