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United Mesh Solutions proposes developing an interactive wireless sensor mesh prototype to enable Navy to better track, monitor and report the identity, location, and health/condition of critical/high interest items. These same attributes have significant value to the commercial logistics industry. The prototype will feature a mist® microchip tag with advanced software, extended memory, encryptio ...

We propose to investigate the use of new three-layer metallization schemes for wire bond pads to improve the reliability of wire bonding interconnects used in high temperature silicon carbide electronics. Current wire bonding technology does not have the ability to survive elevated temperatures (500" C) for extensive periods of time without failure by several mechanisms which include corrosi ...

Computing technology (as well as control and display technology) is rapidly becoming more powerful, miniaturized and wearable. These trends will allow Navy personnel to be increasingly mobile, not tethered to hardwired console and computer systems. In conjunction with wearable display systems, wireless LANs, and alternative control mechanisms (such as voice recognition), system operators may, ...

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Freedom Photonics proposes the development, demonstration, and commercialization of a watt-class 1550 nm superluminescent diode (output power >1000 mW).  Our design will produce a wide spectral bandwidth (>50 nm) with a highly symmetric, low-ripple, near-Gaussian spectral shape.  The device will be packaged into an industry-standard hermetically-sealed 14-pin butterfly package and coupled to a p ...

A Phase I and Phase I option research program is presented which is designed to provide the DOD, DOT, and aircraft manufacturers with a valuable design tool to help improve water impact survivability. It is recognized that impacts into water can be more deleterious to structure and occupants as compared to similar accidents on rigid terrain. The proposed program involves the use of existing c ...

The objective of this study is to provide state-of-the-art crashworthiness engineering to better protect the occupants of Naval helicopters which crash into the sea. To date, crash dynamic analysis and crash design criteria have been based mainly on rigid ground impacts and are therefore not of real use to the Navy, where nearly 90 percent of crashes occur into water. When a helicopter cras ...

Modern wargaming combines computer-aided Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and analytical adjudication to provide an immersive platform to prototype, examine, and rate strategic decisions in any conceivable situation. To ensure quality realism, such a platform must be highly complex, requiring many distinct and specialized systems to correctly interoperate in an appropriate sequence. Tau Technologies ...

Weapon payloads are needed to degrade an adversary's military capability while minimizing the destructive effect on civilian populations. A payload which inhibits operation of internal combustion engines while having no destructive impact on human beings would meet a variety of non-lethal weapon requirements. Immobilization of engines by uptake of fuel combustion inhibitor (FCI) compounds, tailor ...

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