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Low-frequency radars operating in the VHF and UHF bands, like the AN/APY-9 on-board the E-2D Hawkeye can detect and even track low-observable aircraft. But historically, UHF radars had resolution and detection issues that have made them ineffective for accurate targeting and fire control. Higher frequency radars provide the benefit of higher angular resolution. Migrating to higher frequencies (S-b ...

The major challenge in constellation-wide deployment of tactical payloads in low-Earth orbit (LEO) lies in achieving the performance requirements that are imposed by constellation dynamics while maintaining a design simplicity that is compatible with large-scale production, along with typical constraints on size, mass, and power consumption. Cesium’s proposed solution is a small reconfigurable p ...

The Re-Designed Lightweight Gearbox

The overall goal of this SBIR Phase II Reachback project is to develop an enabling technology for shipboard additive manufacturing. NAVSEA has been installing advanced manufacturing equipment, including 3d printers, onboard ships in support of shipboard operations and to evaluate performance of the equipment in shipboard environments and in response to Fleet demand. However, the performance of the ...

The tactical weaknesses of Radio Frequency (RF) communications have been thoroughly established and adversaries are becoming increasingly capable of exploiting them. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) are particularly vulnerable to the limitations of RF communication because of the need for continuous communication links. Missions involving RAS have a lower chance of success in RF denied enviro ...

IFF transponders in the market currently are too large, heavy and power hungry for today’s smaller UAS. Crypto appliqués for secure Mode-5 operation are also too large and heavy for small UAS. Thus there is a need to minimize the SWaP of the IFF transponder and crypto appliqués to support secure/ encrypted IFF modes on UAS. There is currently no Mode-5 ready IFF transponder available that has ...

Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWAP-C) are significant influencers in the design and operation of mobile Free Space Optical (FSO) communications hardware. As FSO technology evolves to applications for smaller vehicles such as Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), the need for reduced size and weight optics becomes critical. Large, heavy glass optical elements are required in today’s FSO units to acquire t ...

4S has developed a Free Space Optical (FSO) system identified as Through-the-Air Link Optical Component (TALOC). TALOC enables a mesh network that constitutes an expert system with distributed processors capable of fusing all relative distance and angle measurements into a highly accurate 3D map of the overall mission group. Using the computed 3D map, the mission group is able to organize itself i ...

Development of a small UAS compatible Micro IFF transponder including Modes 1,2,3A,C,S , Dual band ADS-B, UAT, Mode 5 and interrogator. All modes include both receive (in) and transmit (out). Size is less than 8 cu inches and weight is under 6 oz with full AIMS 17-1000 compliance, including 500 watt output with diversity. Unit is also low cost and low maintenance. Unit meets full military temperat ...

Rotary cannon type weapons, such as the M197 electric cannon, currently require servicing every 28 days in order to remove abrasive particulate and to relubricate the rotary drum. The Navy is currently seeking a one-time application coating, applied at the time of manufacturing or retrofit, which will at least double the time between servicing to 56 days or more. Mainstream Engineering proposes to ...