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The overall objective of this program is to develop a Multi-Frequency Shock-Hardened Antiship Fuze (MSAF) system utilizing a firing switch, a delay element, and high voltage capacitors, capable of surviving extreme high shock environments. During Phase I, McQ successfully developed and tested the critical fireset components (i.e. firing switches, delay elements, and high voltage capacitors) of a f ...

Addressing cyber resiliency for Navy combat systems, such as AEGIS and SSDS, requires acute awareness of the impact that leveraging key cyber resiliency techniques and technologies will have on mission capabilities. The goal of cyber resiliency frameworks that support mission-critical systems are to minimize the time spent recovering and restoring a system from a cyber-attack and to maximize the t ...

State-of-art, simulation-based training environments are representative of real world situations and tasks, and they provide motivating practice in a form that is inexpensive and portable. However, the situations encoded for training are sometimes artificial and incomplete, leaving a gap between simulation training and transfer of training to operational settings. Further, significant instructor/o ...

Polymer matrix composites are increasingly replacing traditional metallic materials in marine platforms due to higher strength to weight ratio, ease of design, and corrosion resistance. Despite these advantages, the detection of cracks, flaws, and weak points within a structural composite, resulting from impact or fatigue, is difficult to visually detect by maintenance personnel. Nondestructive ev ...

The US Navy has been moving towards Integrated Power Systems (IPS) for Naval ships because they separate the prime movers from the propulsion train, maximize the efficiency, reduce acoustic signatures, improve redundancy, improve survivability, and provide compatibility with the increasing power requirements from advanced weapons, sensors, and radar systems. In electric warship design the ability ...

Fast Steering Mirrors (FSM) capable of high bandwidth (5kHz) and Low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) are required for HEL weapons systems aboard high performance aircraft. ATA is proposing to design, develop and test a 5-kHz bandwidth, low SWaP FSM to meet this requirement. ATA will leverage its previous laser communication work and expertise in developing a 2.5kHz FSM. We intend to develop a new ac ...

Air flowing over the fuselage of aircraft can induce both mechanical vibrations in the platform. Furthermore, the turbulent air flow induced by the aircraft can cause light propagating through it to become aberrated due to the aero-optical disturbances. These aero-optical and aero-mechanical disturbances have a strong effect on the pointing of the light propagated through them. The speed of these ...

Current Navy Cybersecurity solutions often employ complicated or unique interfaces to use and manage the various capabilities. They also typically require frequent updates to maintain their effectiveness against threats. This poses serious problems for the fleet when any update to a cybersecurity tool requires integration, testing, and redelivery of the combat systems Operating System and software ...

Nuvotronics has developed an improved manufacturing method for RF power combiners with improved efficiency performance, cost-competitive with existing COTS technologies from S-band through millimeter-wave frequencies. Our couplers offer significantly higher power performance compared to existing COTS parts as well. The technology has broad applications in Navy radar, electronic warfare and communi ...

Total equipment ownership costs and overall Fleet operational availability will be vastly improved by increasing equipment reliability, failure prediction, and overall operational readiness while greatly reducing the occurrence of unnecessary maintenance activities. The utilization of cost effective and open source Big Data advanced analysis software will allow the Navy to accurately predict equip ...