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Strength, durability and reliability of commonly used bonded and bolted composite-to-metal structural joints suffer from sharp geometry variations, mismatch of elastic properties, coefficients of thermal expansion and thermal conductivity of the adherends, altogether causing high stress concentration and premature failure of adhesive bonded joints. The proposed work offers substantial enhancement ...

Develop the Lightweight Aerostat System – Deployable Communications Network (LAS-DCN) to provide an inexpensive, long endurance relay capability for small ships such as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) or USVs. It can also be airlifted by aircraft or helicopter to remote sites if required. LAS-DCN consists of a communications relay payload suspended from a new type of small specially designed te ...

The primary objective of this effort is to design and develop a database management system (DBMS) and enable the integrated interpretation of the vast amounts of genomic and proteomic data in proper biological context. This DBMS will enable the development of diagnostic assays for human exposure to specific biological threat agents using an existing suite of systems biology tools. The DBMS design ...

Close-coupled fuel injector/flameholders used in modern augmentors face difficult challenges in static stability due to higher airflow velocities and higher levels of vitiation than past augmentors. In addition, close-coupled fuel injection schemes typically employ jet-in-crossflow methods to adequately penetrate and mix the fuel with the airstream, but have difficulty providing sufficient fuel to ...

The Navy's vision for an integrated electric warship implies generation of large amounts of energy for weaponry and sensors, with consequent challenges for thermal and power management system optimization. A predictive, rapid, accurate thermal analysis design tool will enable design of the critical thermal and power management systems. We propose to develop an innovative System-Level Thermo-Fluidi ...

CG2 will design software tools that will extract the light features directly from the night source imagery. This will provide the most accurate placement of light features and seamless correlation with the ground texture that is used in the simulated synthetic environment. Our objective is to provide a system that can identify light features within the imagery, identify the geo-specific location ...

There is a need for a simple, affordable method for measuring domoic acid in the field. This project will develop a rapid, onsite kit for domoic acid featuring a filter membrane that produces a readable color response without need for instrumentation. The filter membrane contains three or more zones with different assay characteristics in close proximity. These zones will indicate different co ...

There have been several reports [1, 2, 3] of enhanced ZT at various temperature regimes using superlattice, quantum-dots, and nano-crystalline inclusions, respectively. In combination with semiconductor technology tools for device fabrication, these materials offer unprecedented advantages such as high cooling power density and high-speed cooling/heating in thermal management and high specific pow ...

GaN FETs are capable of very high power levels relative to Si or GaAs technologies. This high power density leads to very broadband capability as needed for the 2MHz-2GHz JTRS radio program. Nitronex has commercialized AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on silicon substrates. As such, reliable devices and accurate device models are available for sub-4GHz operation in class AB. During this Phase I, we will demonstrat ...

The purpose of this project is to determine if an Ultra-Wideband radar array sensor can be used as an effective perimeter security sensor to detect, track and classify targets. If this can be determined, then the next step will be to produce a proof of concept unit, then demonstrate and characterize the performance in a multitude of real life scenarios. If successful, this effort will result in ...