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Propeller-driven aircraft produce vibrations that have deleterious and potentially harmful effects on crew members exposed to their operational environment for extended mission durations. The E-2C/D aircraft has a high vibration environment and a seat that passes these environments on unmitigated to the crew members maximizing discomfort, especially during the long duration missions that are stand ...

NP Photonics proposes to develop a supercontinuum (SC) fiber laser with the capability to propagate a multi-spectral laser beam with > 10 Watts of time-averaged power. This program focuses on all fiber optic approach with particular emphasis on covering the mid-IR portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Mid-infrared lasers are key enabling technology for various applications such as remote chemic ...

Oceanit proposes to develop technologies and tools for detecting and classifying malwares using methods and techniques which are orthogonal to existing methods of binary/code analysis, binary and behavioral signatures.

The Navy requires a life raft that is small and light enough to include with the body-worn survival ensemble. Having a pocket-sized raft at hand helps facilitate successful egress, inflation, and boarding. The required 12 cubic inches of stowed volume is a significant challenge, considering that a typical one-person raft compacts to about 700 cubic inches under vacuum. Safe, Inc. (Safe) has propos ...

As the demand for smaller, lighter, and more cost effective optical subsystems increases, many optical system designers see a growing application for advanced holographic lens technology. Having a lens whose thickness does not increase with increasing diameter or focal length is extremely beneficial for reducing size and weight in UAV and satellite imaging applications.TIPDs Phase I SBIR program w ...

Composites are increasingly used in components for defense applications as well as commercial structures. They are generally exposed to microstructural damage and thermo-mechanical loading, leading to physical property degradation. It is a very challenging task to predict all possible failure modes (matrix cracking, fiber breakage, delamination) because damage initiation and its progressive growth ...

The objective of this project is to rapidly produce CNC mill path programs for the production of propellers by NAVSEA. Propellers are produced by casting to near net shape and then finishing via 5+ axis milling operation. This project uses recently developed subtractive 3D printing techniques to automatically produce a mill path from as cast part to finished part.

Touchstone proposes to incorporate its MetPreg fiber reinforced aluminum material into a concept for bonded-on repairs to cracked aluminum ship hulls and superstructure. The method would not require logistics beyond that which is normally available to ships force or entail the use of materials with short shelf life. MetPreg has been shown to arrest cracks in 7xxx series aluminum compact tension sp ...

The overall objective of the proposed work is to demonstrate the feasibility of electrically pumped, high-efficiency and long-lifetime, near-UV, solid-state laser diodes (LDs) based on AlGaN MQWs grown on native, single crystalline GaN substrates. The targeted laser diodes will emit between 330 - 350 nm with an emission power exceeding 1 W. These lasers will find application in remote Raman spectr ...

The government has identified the DARPA PlanX program as a likely transition program for this technology. As such, the toolset designed in Phase I will be redesigned in Phase II to be compatible with the PlanX data formats and API, and the revised design shall be implemented and tested. The core algorithms in the decision process will be redesigned to function in the PlanX architecture to enable s ...