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Naval aircraft in operation face the risk of over-temperature incidents such as fires and high-temperature exhaust gas impingement. Protection of composite aircraft structures from excessive heat is important since the thermally damaged component could fail and result in a catastrophic accident. Existing simulation tools are not able to provide a reliable damage assessment of a large-scale structu ...

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have become a critical component of tactical applications, assisting the warfighter in interpreting and making decisions from vast and disparate sources of data. Whether image, signal or text data, remotely sensed or scraped from the web, cooperatively collected or intercepted, DNNs are the go-to tool for rapid processing of this information to extract relevant features ...

Dynovas' Active Reflection Cable Health Evaluation Recorder (ARCHER) posses a feasible, ergonomic and cost effective solution for monitoring, detection, and analysis of defects in steel wire cables utilized in Cross Deck Pendant applications. Providing detection capabilities over 360° around the cable surface for defects >0.04in. along cable lengths of over 100 feet in under 2 minutes. To acco ...

R-DEX Systems (R-DEX) proposes to leverage its unique expertise in advanced sensor solutions, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) to develop a groundbreaking technology for improved and more robust automatic target classifiers. The proposed approach will leverage R-DEX’s proprietary neural networks and the latest published literature. Specifically, R-DEX will incorporate its ...

Through the proposed Navy SBIR program, NanoSonic will create novel, highly insulative 3D patterned HybridSil®  thermal array wetsuit fabrics for cold water (35o F) diving that maintain > 75% of their insulative performance at 100’ depth. This will be accomplished by creating a multilayered neoprene wetsuit fabric that affords both 4-way stretch and  empirically down-selected, sealed air gaps ...

Wetsuits become a key aspect of managing operator safety and performance in the complex and challenging marine environment. Water absorbs heat more efficiently than air, and its movement causes rapid convection of heat away from the body. As a result, wetsuits must have high heat-insulating capacity while also not restricting body movements. Protection during cold-water diving specifically has bee ...

There is a critical need to mitigate undesirable fouling formation on seawater-based titanium heat exchangers used in US Navy vessels.  Heat exchangers are widely used in Navy ships to cool operating fluids and gases, and seawater is the preferred cooling medium since it is readily available. However, fouling will form while ocean water circulates through the heat exchanger tubes or plates, decre ...

Verus Research and Professor Macheret from Purdue University are pleased to respond to the Navy Phase I SBIR solicitation N202-143 titled “Plasma Switches and Antennas for Contested Electromagnetic Environments.” The Verus Research led team proposes to develop a Compact Plasma Discharge Cell (CPDC) for High Power Electromagnetic (EM) Wave Switching. The CPDC brings on-demand shielding from hos ...

With the delivery of the operational multi-static active coherent (MSAC) source to the NAVAIR anti-submarine warfare system, the opportunity for complex waveforms and real-time updating of the ping-sequencing for an active sonobuoy field will be available.  In order to maximize the use of this revolutionary source, there is a need to understand how multiple ping types and sequences lead to the co ...

We address main issues concerning the limitation of load cycle speed in a typical airframe full-scale fatigue testing (FSFT) of rotary wing aircraft (RWA) in a systematic way by means of developing a predictive and adaptive model-in-the-loop (MiL) testing method. Current typical control systems employed for the RWA FSFT are based on a reactive-style feedback loop via hydraulic servo-cylinders and ...