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Ships made from non-metallic materials may be lightweight and demonstrate low signatures, but require special lightning protection. This can be afforded using nanocomposites manufactured from carbon naofibers and durable materials such as Ethylene-Propylene-Diene Monomer (EPDM). This offers excellent electrical conductivity especially for high current pulses, but at the same time can extinguish ...

An innovative distributed multi-axis fiber optic based strain sensor system will be used to measure transverse strain, longitudinal strain, and strain gradients in adhesive bonds to track the onset of failure. This system which is based on advanced fiber grating technology allows multiplexing of large numbers of sensors, Synergy with the communications industry allows the unit cost of the sensors ...

Current mechanical data storage devices will not be capable of handling the advanced sensor information required for testing sophisticated military equipment in the near future. Solid state recording is attractive to the military as it can provide the record rate and storage capacity required to capture high resolution imagery while offering increased reliability over traditional mechanical stora ...

Even as military conflict becomes more complex and technologically sophisticated, it is evident that there is a need to focus attention on the individual as both warrior and system controller. DoD is committed to optimizing the warfighter's physical,psychological, and cognitive capabilities to permit him/her to successfully operate in an information-rich and high stress environment. One result of ...

We propose to upgrade a blade vibration monitoring system developed 15 years ago: 1) to improve its sensitivity and vibration measurement capability with the goal of using the improved system in on-going research in active high-cycle fatigue abatement for rotor blades; 2) develop the system, especially its electronics and software, and bring it to current aerospace industry standards to become the ...

Current fire-retardant/fire-resistant resin materials for composite panel systems in Naval topside applications do not provide the required levels of fire protection and combustion resistance. The need exists for a lightweight, fire-resistant resin systems that enables composite structures to maintain structural integrity following exposure to high intensity flames (without toxic rele ...

Topical Skin Protectants (TSPs) comprised of perfluorinated polyether oil thickened with PTFE are currently used to protect of military personnel from Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs). The existing TSPs provide an effective physical barrier to CWAs. However, they possess no destructive capacity toward the CWAs. The incorporation of catalytically reactive materials capable of neutralizing chemical wa ...

Systran Federal Carp., (SFC), and our subcontractor, Simpkins Design Group, (SOC) will integrate a series of primarily COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) hardware and software products and deliver and demonstrate a working helicopter simulator at the end of Phase I. The formulation of this simulator represents a single instantiation of a modular simulator concept that we conceived in 1995. We denot ...

An affordable suite of sensors will be strategically packaged to produce a reliable, highly accurate and robust IMU capable of surviving the launch and flight environment of a 155mm projectile. This proposed Enhanced Precision IMU (EP-IMU) will be sufficiently small (less than 1.5 cu in), light weight and low power for integration into a 155mm projectile and will provide accurate data measurements ...

Etegent is proposing an agile hardware platform to enable object detection at extremely high pixel per watt rates and is also capable of quickly incorporating new algorithmic approaches. The core enabling technology of this system is a multicore system on a chip (SoC) server utilizing several low-power COTS processors configured with a high-speed interconnect switch. Etegent has developed a variet ...