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Developments in electronics have significantly reduced the cost of radios, computing power, and data storage requirements. The computer advances are obvious to anyone who has used a computer for more than a few years. The development of software defined radio (SDR) technology, together with low cost/low power microcontrollers, allows new devices in the sonobuoy form factor to be developed rapidly ...

To address the need to mitigate cooperative and noncooperative in-band interference in airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) systems, ARiA will develop and demonstrate the feasibility of signal and information processing algorithms for mitigating various types of in-band interference. ARiA will develop and evaluate (1) model-based adaptive signal processing in space, time, and Doppler to mitigate ...

In order to support operational objectives for readiness across the vast PACOM area of responsibility, Commander Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT) requires improved visibility into the availability of parts and other material. While a wide range of logistics systems from multiple DoD agencies provide data on material from supplier to on-hand inventory, critical gaps exist in tracking material while in tra ...

The Navy’s food logistics operations rival the largest commercial enterprises in scale and complexity, but the Navy has not been able to take advantage modern food service management systems. Current Navy processes are plagued by out-of-date vendor catalogs, manual/duplicate data entry, man-in-the-loop delays, manual data transfers, and non-compliant processes and systems. Business-to-Business ( ...

Makai proposes to address the small communications buoy mooring problem by developing a technology for small diameter fiber optic cable compliance. Makai’s solution will solve the issue of how a small diameter fiber optic cable can be used for the mooring of small retractable buoys and provide the needed compliance to protect the delicate optical fiber in sea state 3 or 4 conditions. The complia ...

Enhancing existing handheld, broadband long wave infrared (LWIR) imaging systems with multi-color capability will enable new applications for infantry with no increase in overall weight load. Applications enabled by a multi-color LWIR sensor potentially spectral target detection, day/night operation and enhanced personnel target detection range. The technology will be able to seamlessly toggle bet ...

To support Navy’s need for novel algorithms using improved energy clustering and association techniques to represent the spatial and Doppler distribution of active-sonar returns to improve active-sonar tracking and classification performance for the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15, ARiA will develop and demonstrate the Next-Generation Clusterer (NGC), a suite of algorithms for feature-augmented contact localiza ...

Navatek proposes a USV that deploys a subsurface ROV and uses low-latency, secure, line-of-sight communications, called the Remotely Operated Minesweeping Surface and Subsurface (ROMSS) system. ROMSS streams AES-256 encrypted video and data at 4MBps back to a remote supervisor. A soft universal robotic capture and release system, on the rear of the USV, locks the ROV in place during transit. Optio ...

The fat line towed array system provides a critical surveillance capability that enables the U.S. Navy to maintain undersea dominance. Submarines tow 300ft long fat line arrays that are equipped with hydrophones that are used to detect, classify, localize and track threat submarines. The turbulent nature of the tow environment causes the low-frequency motions in the aft end of the array, degrading ...

Oceanit proposes a Phase I project to develop and validate an adaptive approach to detect and react to external and embedded cybersecurity attacks at the application layer in order to secure and maintain maritime-based information communication operations involving autonomous submerged vehicles.