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The Navy has challenged the Small Business community to develop an improved skirt system for air cushion vehicles which reduces total ownership cost by increasing product life, decreasing manufacturing costs as well as installation and maintenance time, and improving reparability. The current system is primarily comprised of vulcanized polychloroprene rubber bonded to chemically coated nylon fabri ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop low-cost high-speed manufacturing process to produce high performance capacitor film with high dielectric breakdown strength, high thermal conductivity, low leakage current, and high operation temperature.

In this SBIR project, Polymics proposes to develop high temperature high energy density film capacitors using Polymics proprietary class of advanced high temperature polymers and their nanocomposites with dielectric constant (K) higher than 3, thermal stability above 200 C, and dielectric loss less than 1%, to meet the targets of a 95% or higher charge/discharge efficiency to 400 volts/micron at 1 ...

As organizations grow in size and complexity, it is only natural that inefficiencies exist. One of the challenges faced by organizations is the information needed to identify, characterize, and resolve these inefficiencies is located in different stovepipes and may be biased based on a variety of factors. Both crowdsourcing and human computation research and design thinking practices have develope ...

The Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) family of terminals are utilized by the US armed forces and their allies for command, control, communications, computation, and intelligence (C4I) operations. The US Navy is currently transitioning from the MIDS-Low Volume Terminal (LVT) to the MIDS-Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). MIDS-JTRS allows for increased capabilities, however, t ...

Aerial refueling is a mission-critical component of Navy operations. Refueling is made difficult by the interference between the tanker and receiver aircraft. The receiver aircraft may experience various forms of disturbances during approach, stressing the skills of a pilot or the control system of an autonomous vehicle. Current flight simulation capabilities are unable to reproduce the impact of ...

In this Phase II contract, Interphase Materials will further validate the efficacy of its antibiofouling surface treatment (AST) in preventing biofouling on OHIO-class submarine seawater cooled heat exchangers (HX). The AST is a molecularly thin surface treatment that binds to the substrate, protecting the surface from organism attachment. An intensive field study will be conducted, incorporating ...

As a cloud-like architecture is adopted by mission critical System of Systems (SoS), the problem of system management is critically important to solve in order to ensure continuity of operations. System operators and maintainers need a way to manage system resources and restore a system to health when subsystems in the SoS are sharing these resources. A technology to determine and present Courses ...

The objective of the proposed project is to develop designs for manufacturable all-metal terminal hot-electron transistors (AMTHETs) that will enable 1W – 10W THz RF amplifiers and oscillators. The proposed work will focus on quantum-mechanical modelin...

Survivability of military rotorcraft is a critical mission objective requiring extensive testing and analysis for various hover and flight modes of transport. Typical analysis requires Electro-Optic/Infra-red (EO/IR) and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensing at a wide variety of environments, flight configurations, and sensor types and orientations using high-fidelity EO/IR and LIDAR modelin ...