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Composites are increasingly being adopted into aero-surfaces due to their superior specific strength and stiffness, however they can be susceptible to beneath visible-surface impact data. Furthermore, as with traditional aero-surfaces, ice accumulation can result in reduced lift and increased drag. Therefore, the Navy desires an innovative, self-monitoring system for composite wings and rotor-blad ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a design concept for a standoff optical approach for rapid hull contaminant detection and classification. Physical Sciences Inc. in collaboration with the Navy sponsor will develop a requirements specification document to guide the analysis of candidate optical approaches and subsequent system design in Phase II of the program. PSI will assemble a spectral da ...

The military desires a multi-tank fuel inerting system to protect the craft from ballistic fire and accidental fires. Traditional systems have used either stored suppressants that are often heavy, costly, and create logistical resupply challenges or systems that produce an inert gas such as an on-board inert gas generating system that can generate an inert gas to fill the ullage during flights. Th ...

We propose to develop a system to identify hull surface contamination, such as lubricants and amines formed during the coating process, using a measurement technique that can be adapted to a ship construction environment. The method we propose is laser light scattering, specifically standoff Raman scattering, to provide a noncontact, high-speed, accurate method of checking for and chemically ident ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop a compact low-cost magnetometer for use in airborne and in-water ASW. The novel sensor will combine optical pumping of alkali atoms with sensitive balanced ratiometric detection and frequency counting electronics. PSI has successfully demonstrated sensitive magnetic field detection using the proposed approach in previous programs. During the propose ...

Triton Systems proposes to develop a sonobuoy structure with vastly reduced sea state driven motion. Motion and tilting of sonobuoy acoustic sensor arrays can negatively impact sensor acoustic detection and localization performance. The Triton system will integrate into an ‘A’ size sonobuoy and maintain the reliability and robustness of current systems. In Phase I Triton will develop the desig ...

The goal of the proposed program is to combine the functionality of the TR-232, TR-233 and ITC-1007 transducers into a single high performance transducer that can meet all of the NavyÕs submarine acoustic communications requirements. All this needs to packaged into a form factor that fits within the current TR-233 footprint and include both transmit and receive response. Materials Systems Inc. (M ...

PEO IWS is currently developing the Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS). The USW-DSS will enhance the Combat Information Center (CIC) by providing a "Common Tactical Picture" to operators for shared situation awareness. To help define and improve the USW-DSS concept, solutions are needed that can improve CIC operators'' abilities to switch contexts and multi-task more efficiently. A ...

different modes, while using different combinations of subsystems. This presents a challenge for the personnel validating the system during design and development; the number of combinations of environments, modes, and subsystems is exponential. They cannot all be tested, so an optimal subset of tests must be run. We propose to develop VERITAS: Validation and Evaluation of Remote, Interactive Tea ...

Scene understanding is incredibly difficult, as it requires the recreation of a 3D environment from noisy 2D image data. Greedy approaches to estimating scene attributes are computationally expensive and are not sufficient for solving many real-world problems (e.g., detecting a suspect moving through a scene). Further complicating matters, is that different levels of detail/description are require ...