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High power pulse weapons have been proposed for decades. Prototype lasers, for example, have had some success in destroying surface and airborne targets. High power, high efficiency laser diodes are now available to pump the lasers but they still need large amounts of energy storage. A convenient way to utilize energy dense aircraft fuel is to tap into the existing electrical generation and distri ...

With the advent of pulse energy weapons, the transient characteristics of military aircraft power systems is changing. These new loads require power supplies that shield the pulse transient from the electrical distribution system, while also being highly efficient, power dense, and reliable. Mainstream proposes a lightweight, modular, hybrid pulse energy delivery system that is scalable to applica ...

Metallic Direct Digital Manufacturing (MDDM), is based on layer-by-layer metal deposition and has been developed to a sufficient state of manufacturing readiness where production applications have emerged in niche industrial sectors. DDM processes in general require the use of raw materials that are either powdered metal or weld wire, both sources having been developed long before DDM processes em ...

To address the US Navy's need for an innovative nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) technique for in-situ monitoring of bondline integrity for composite structures, X-wave Innovations, Inc. (XII) and Drexel University (DU) propose a low-cost, hybrid acoustic-ultrasonic technique (HAUT). The enabling NDE/SHM technique will allow the in-situ monitoring of the ...

As shipboard control electronics continue to evolve, electronic systems inevitably incur hardware changes. However, these system changes often require sound recertification of the electronics enclosure, which can be a very costly and time-consuming process. Therefore, it is desirable to build a silent electronics enclosure to avoid the recertification process. Mainstream proposes developing an act ...

Emerging portable software defined radio (SDR) technology has great potential to improve the communication capability of dismounted and Special Forces personnel, as it can quickly acquire the operational information in a hostile environment, and adapt to it based on spectrum needs and available resources. The major challenge lies in the following aspects: effectiveness of spectrum sensing, network ...

We propose a secure, reliable and efficient data storage and transition system, DataGuard, for wireless ad hoc networks. As a distributed system, DataGuard integrates various coding techniques, data migration protocol and service evaluation model to enable secure data storage and efficient data access in wireless ad hoc networks. We adopt various coding techniques including erasure coding scheme, ...

The proposed effort will yield a Tag, Track, and Locationing (TTL) and Data Exfil system providing the ability to communicate bidirectionally through 40 dB of obstacles, geolocate through 40 dB of obstacles, and provide 10 kbits/s data exfil in clear sky free of airtime charges. Such a system would enable new and unprecedented Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) include operating Tags in tr ...

SURVICE Engineering is proposing an innovative and reliable combination of cutting-edge technologies currently employed in SURVICE"s core business operations for the post-IED hull inspection toolset, which will allow forward-deployed Marines to rapidly collect all relevant data for the assessment of structural damage to combat vehicles. As an industry leader in survivability analysis, SURVICE has ...

Todayfs naval networking environment is primarily composed of several enterprise computing and communications environments, which can be characterized as large scale heterogeneous network environments. Due to the inherited complex and heterogamous nature of network, it is quite challenging to provide synchronized view of data, autonomous analytics from geographically dispersed, large volume of dat ...