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Agile RF Systems in partnership with the University of Oklahoma (OU) propose to develop and test an impulse radar (IR) based on a new, low cost, commercially available chipset. This chipset was originally developed and is used in medical radar devices. The radar incorporates an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) array antenna with correlation-sampling electronic scanning in the time-domain, to achieve a scalabl ...

The Air Force requires a system to provide over the horizon tracking to support development and test of Sea Skimming Missiles (SSM). Under this SBIR Phase I effort, Defense Research Associates, Inc.(DRA) will document system requirements, identify and assess sensor technologies capable of performing the missile tracking task, develop a system design to meet the requirements using the most promisin ...

In the naval aircraft many disparate materials are subject to galvanic corrosion, due to the marine environment. Some of these aircraft have hybrid (carbon fiber composite/aluminum) designs that exhibit accelerated corrosion damage, compared to legacy all-metal frames, due to galvanic interaction between the fastener, the composite skin, and the aluminum frame. In the Phase I SBIR program, UES Inc ...

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Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team member Virginia Tech (VT), proposes a new approach for quick repair of corroded fastener holes using an emerging solid-state process, additive friction stir deposition (AFSD). AFSD integrates the friction stir principle with a robust material feeding mechanism to enable site-specific deposition. Renowned for low cost, high speed, ea ...

The Navy relies on handling quality ratings (HQRs) for evaluation of its aircraft to ensure that it can maintain, train, and equip combat-ready forces. The aviator’s perspective is vital for assessing aircraft handling, but can be difficult to obtain from Pilots without distracting them or relying on their memory. Pilot physiological state fluctuates with the amount of workload required to handl ...

In 1969 George Cooper and Robert Harper published their seminal report on the use of pilot ratings in aircraft handling qualities evaluations that produced the pilot rating scale that remains in use today. The scale features key innovations that revolutionized handling qualities testing including the decision tree that guides pilots to the handling qualities level and the individual ratings that a ...

The assessment of aircraft flying qualities and the resultant impact on pilot workload is critical for the evaluation and tuning of aircraft configurations. A reliance on subjective self-report ratings and an inability to account for cross-pilot variability lead to reliability concerns when evaluating flying qualities for aircraft under specific tasks and conditions. Despite advances in the quanti ...

Barron Associates proposes development of the INSIGHT technology that will apply statistical learningmethods to achieve robust classification and/or estimation of pilot workload (PWL) based on pilot physiological and activity measures. PWL is reflective of both pilot stress and task difficulty, both of which are affected by aircraft handling qualities. INSIGHT consists of a suite of sensors custom ...

To address the Navy’s need for a rapid, cost effective inspection system for microstructures in alloys, Hedgefog Research Inc. (HFR) proposes to develop a new Microtexture Identification and Characterization for Alloys (MICA) system. The proposed MICA is based on a novel combination of an optical measurement system and advanced image processing algorithms for microstructure inspection. The optic ...