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To maintain combat readiness in a changing warfare landscape, the Navy and USMC training communities needs comprehensive, easy-to-use database generation and editing tools. These tools must be flexible geospatial source data often lacks detail, so customization capabilities are essential. For example, users may need to edit the terrain database to accurately represent building interiors and perfo ...

The amazing ability of humans to recognize a wide variety of sounds with minimal exposure to the myriad of subtle nuances and possible variations of these sounds has driven intense research into modeling the neurobiological processes of hearing over the last 25 years. The field of study focused on processes in the early auditory system and primary auditory cortex has made substantial advancements ...

ABSTRACT: Designing propulsion devices and munitions for precise operational performance demands control and manipulation of energy released by explosive materials. It is well recognized that the initiation of energetic materials in explosives applications depends sensitively on hot-spots that originate from various heterogeneities at the meso (particle)-scale such as voids, defects, dislocations ...

The proposed effort for the SBIR Phase II.5 Project is a Continued Development to extend the capabilities of the Phase II unit in accordance with the UHF/MUOS SATCOM Triplex Filter Specification. The Triplex Filter will operate over the Legacy UHF SATCOM (UFO) frequency bands plus the entire MUOS frequency bands (Existing plus Growth), and will support transmit power levels up to 250 watts. The re ...

There is a strong movement to add Non-Kinetic Fire COAs, such as Electronic Warfare attack and Computer Network Attack to the military planners toolbox. Because this new approach, called Integrated Fires (IF), integrates attack types from across traditionally separate planning disciplines it requires the creation of new planning methodologies and technologies. One key technology gap is in the Navy ...

ABSTRACT: The current state-of-the-art for heat exchanger (HEX) analysis and design relies on analytical approaches which are difficult to scale and highly empirical, thus making the ability to optimize advanced heat transfer devices improbable without comprehensive characterization efforts. The design standard for predicting heat exchanger performance is a set of empirical data developed more th ...

This proposal describes a technology system called POLIS (Pattern of Life Integrated System), which combines research in logic-based, semantic and statistical graph techniques to provide intelligence analysts superior capabilities for performing activity-based intelligencespecifically pattern of life (POL) calculation in near-real time. Combining semantic logic-based and math-based techniques prov ...

Decisions made at concept design have profound impacts on total life cycle cost. The industry trend is to apply automated software tools during concept design so larger numbers of alternatives can be evaluated and optimal, feasible solutions identified. Current ship concept design software tools lack the ability to synthesize physical layouts for shipboard distribution systems. Without sized and l ...

Manufacturers of aerospace propulsion systems are well aware of the positive effects of compressive residual stress (RS) fields on turbo-machinery components in terms of improved fatigue life and durability. Tensile RS, however, can cause unfavorable conditions which may lead to premature failure during operational usage. Thus, the industry objective is to capitalize on compressive RS and prevent ...

Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N0014-12-C-0373. High power, superconducting electron linear accelerators represent a new method of producing highly focused electron beams (Ebeams). These instruments have exciting applications in the area of free electron lasers and directed energy weapons, but are costly and currently only useful in small, highly-specialized markets. ...