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We propose to develop the Human Systems Integration (HSI) Engineering Analysis Tool, or HEAT. HEAT provides advice for engineers using material-design software on how their design choices affect HSI domains. While there are nine HSI domains: Human factors engineering, Survivability, Manpower, Personnel, Training, Environment Safety, Occupational, and Habitability that HEATs design can accommodate, ...

Nano-computers are becoming prevalent in many areas of computing. They are cheap, highly functional, and scalable. Originally designed as inexpensive instructional tools or as multipurpose controllers, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and similar Systems on a Chip (SOC) could be used in the prototyping of hardware and/or software solutions in military and commercial environments. SimVentions proposes the ap ...

The Navy is facing more sophisticated Undersea Warfare threats as the technology and tactics of our adversaries improve, and the use of complex multistatic sonobuoy fields offers significant advantages in detection of these threats. Due to the size and complexity of the processing of multistatic fields, more information is generated than sonar Operators can manually evaluate. Adaptive Methods, tea ...

In the aviation environment, the native vestibular and somatosensory systems may provide erroneous information leaving only the visual system to provide attitude information essential for safe flight. If the visual system is compromised, spatial discord can lead to aircraft loss of control. The current state-of-the-art in miniaturized Inertial Measurement Units (mIMU) presents an opportunity to de ...

Modern military and commercial gas turbine engines are subject to increased durability, performance, and safety issues when operating in austere environments where significant quantities of sand, volcanic ash and dust are present and can be ingested into the engines. These environments include desert regions, as well as, previously active/currently active volcanic areas. Military studies of turbin ...

Prime Photonics proposes to adapt our proven FOCIS blade health monitoring system to provide high-speed, non-contact torque measurements via a pair of hardened optical probes. Coupled with our Sensor Interface Unit (SIU) and Data Capture Unit (DCU), the FOCIS system is capable of providing the ultra-high data rates necessary to measure timing at over 60,000 blades per second. It is this high speed ...

Our ability to maintain acoustic advantage is in large part dependent upon our ability to develop and deploy high performance, affordable acoustic arrays. The two most significant cost drivers in acoustic arrays are: (1) Determining the performance of the array sensor system in the real ocean environment, and (2) monitoring, maintenance and repair of the array over its deployed life cycle. ASSETTs ...

In Phase II, the primary technical objectives are to expand the spatial modeling to a more complete 3D representation of the environment; to incorporate additional data sources to create a more robust model; to leverage computer vision techniques to precisely locate objects, structures, contacts, etc. in the imagery; and to optimize the resulting algorithms for the target hardware and software env ...

Although the technologies developed over the last decade have helped solve several difficult field engine problems there is a need for analytical tool for reliable HCF life estimation engine components, specifically of blisk aerofoils in the presence of residual stresses. Technical Data Analysis Inc. will develop a novel HCF life assessment technology along with an associated software package to a ...

Challenges in the assessment of fatigue and durability of dynamic components require the development of an innovative tool that is able to include the advantages of both time and frequency domain methodologies. Different flight regimes imply different static and quasi-static applied loads, but they also excite different dynamic responses of the structure; this causes the stresses at a critical loc ...