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Current riverine craft are built in aluminum. Although aluminum is an obvious candidate material for a riverine operating environment, innovative solutions that deliver structural weight reduction to enable higher speeds, greater payload and increased survivability are always desired. Advanced lightweight composite structural armor concepts, comprised of hybrid fiber reinforced materials, grade ...

Composite structures for submarines require high strength and high fracture toughness to survive underwater shock blasts. These structures have historically been built using rubber-toughened epoxy pre-impregnated (pre-pregs) reinforcements. However, experience has shown that pre-pregs can be difficult to work with, especially for thick section parts, and require expensive, size-limited, autoclav ...

In this Phase II proposal, SciGenesis will optimize our FR solution for cut and sewn military garments to reduce weight gain, improve air permeability and tear strenght. Additionally, we will demonstrate its scalabilty and provide uniforms for field testing.

The development of lighter weight insulation with improved thermal and ablative properties is vital to the future success of ducted rocket/ramjet technology currently being developed in the United States. In Phase I, novel composite ablative materials were fabricated from Parmaxr SRP (Self-Reinforced Polymers) and carbon fibers and shown to possess numerous advantages over the current technology ...

This proposal addresses the development of a Command Post and Acoustic Listening Posts for performing detection and automatic geo-location and classification of transient acoustic sounds associated with the firing of weapons, especially rockets, mortars, and artillery and the corresponding munitions impacts. Key components of the system are rugged low-noise infrasound sensors, state-of-the-art aco ...

Mississippi Polymer Technologies Inc. (MPT) proposes to develop a new generation of polymeric lightweight ammunition weighing approximately 1/3 less than existing brass ammunition. Previous efforts to develop polymer-cased ammunition have failed primarily because of problems associated with choice of case materials. During Phase I, MPT has demonstrated proof of concept overcoming these issues. D ...

"This SBIR Phase II Proposal seeks to develop the physics-basedfault tolerant technology for sensor networks shown to befeasible in the SBIR Phase I study in response to topic N01-080, "Fault Location in an Intelligent Open Sensor Network." Theproposed approach considers that for Conditional-BasedMaintenance purposes an entire ship can be classified as ahierarchy of subsystems, which conceptually ...

Proposed is the innovative solution for the development of a unified information structure for a system of automated information tools and methodology to efficiently provide output to oceanographic and meteorological forescast models. Involved is the development of metadata fields using sets of automated information tools. The metadata bases will use existing algorithms for browsing, visualization ...

This proposal addresses the development of a Command Post and Acoustic Listening Posts for performing detection and automatic geo-location and classification of transient acoustic sounds associated with the firing of weapons, especially rockets, mortars, and artillery and the corresponding munitions impacts. Key components of the system are rugged low-noise infrasound sensors, state-of-the-art aco ...

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