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Acoustech plans a two-year effort aimed at evaluating acoustic dyadic sensors for prospective use in directional sonobuoys utilized by the U. S. Navy. The chief sonobuoys targeted in this study are the AN/SSQ-53 DIFAR, AN/SSQ-77 VLAD, and AN/SSQ-62 DICASSunits. The DIFAR and VLAD buoys are passive devices that have a bandwidth of 5 - 2400 Hz, whereas the DICASS buoy is an active device that has ...

Conventional medium caliber projectiles fall short of desired effectiveness due to factors such as aiming inaccuracy, component manufacturing tolerances, wind effects, etc. A guided projectile that could obviate these factors would substantially improvehit probability, increasing effective range and lethality. Commensurately longer standoff distances also increase warfighter survivability. Furthe ...

This proposal investigates using a knowledge acquisition system called The Discovery MachineT to enable SMEs to construct critics to evolve software. The Discovery Machine enables SMEs to construct critics by providing: Easy to use KA tools for capturing and experimenting with processes and objects, Very high-level formal languages for encoding, validating and verifying processes and objects in a ...

The most significant development within the target business sector is the explosion in amount and complexity of data and the subsequent need for computational power to utilize this data. Programmers, SMEs, and Decision Makers all need more effective toolsfor communicating to each other and for leveraging this information. The Discovery Machine provides both a vehicle for communicating, modeling, a ...

This Phase II SBIR project will develop a full function propagation simulation software application that will model radio wave propagation in a wide variety of physical scenarios. The development plans include the implementation of the high fidelityphysics based model for propagation prediction all type of physical environments. The software will incorporate site-specific features from the ground ...

The overall goal of the proposed two-phase SBIR project is to develop a low-cost, reliable, miniaturized RF component suitable for nanosatellites, in order for them to achieve functionality similar to larger spacecrafts. EMAG Technologies proposes todevelop a novel multi-chip module (MCM) technology based on revolutionary concepts in packaging and integration that will reduce the RF communication ...

We propose to build an Open Analytical Framework to support collaborative, distributed data collection and analysis.The Open Analytical Framework will be an inexpensive, distributed data mining and analysis platform. It emphasizes collaboration throughinformation liquidity and performance through massive scale and parallelization. It is composed of a large distributed ensemble of cooperating dat ...

Ice formation on projections on aircraft is a leading cause of aircraft fatalities. There is a need for efficient ice-phobic technology for both civilian and military aircraft. For military aircraft, including military rotorcraft, there are additionalrequirements of being lightweight, low energy consuming, and having low observability. This SBIR proposal will test the feasibility of highly cross ...

A sensor/communications package is designed that can sense the physical presence of a submerged submarine at very short range, and that can be manufactured cheaply enough to enable very high density seeding of anti-submarine barriers using environmentallybenign materials. The method is based on specially designed biodegradable composite sensor particles activated by the submarine propulsor wake t ...

Predicting the signal level and coverage area of radio frequency communication channels between base stations, vehicles and warfighters is a challenging problem. The channel may involve radio frequency interactions with hills, foliage, and buildings. Thepaths may involve long distances over hilly terrain or shorter distances involving interaction with urban building features. Some propagation p ...