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The current steam based sterilizers of US military has a number of shortcomings including lack of portability and high use of water. It is highly desirable to develop a high portable, efficient and water independent sterilizer for Navy applications. The proposing team will develop a field-ruggedized medical device for providing field sterilization of surgical instruments, tools, trays, and other r ...

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 ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes a simple, lightweight and regenerable system to detect and filter out contaminants in-situ via a concept originally developed and validated for NASA spacecraft life-support. It will be designed to permit drop-in integration with the OBOGS pilot breathing system and complement its operation. It will clean up pilot breathing air, protect OBOGS sorbent impair ...

Functional and information gaps have emerged in the systems that provide logistics support for U.S. Navy Food Service operations aboard ships and at shore galleys. These shortfalls have manifested themselves as inefficient workflows, extensive rework, unsatisfactory financial audit readiness, and can often result in a lack of available menu items on fleet mess decks. The Sonalysts Team proposes th ...

Sequent Logic is proposing a fiber-optic condition-based management platform that addresses the Navy’s need for an intelligent, adaptable, reconfigurable, scalable, expandable, reliable, compact, and affordable means of passively and actively monitoring temperature, strain, vibration, and acoustic emissions, and that is capable of characterizing material anomalies and fatigue to predict time-to- ...

Within the increasingly contested undersea operational arena, the Navy needs a tactical and competitive advantage in undersea sensing and detection through improved situational awareness with respect to environmental parameters, such as sound speed profile (SSP) and bottom properties, that affect overall submarine sonar sensor performance. Current approaches for enhancing environmental situational ...

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 ...

Sonalysts proposes to develop COA Battle Rehearsal and visualization Aid in 5-Dimensions (COBRA 5D), an innovative enhanced situational awareness and continuous maritime COA analysis and planning tool that extends surface Navy Battle Management Aids (BMAs) currently in development. COBRA 5D will enable rapid prototyping and demonstrate the feasibility of innovative dynamic and colorimetric tactica ...

This Phase I proposal to Topic N191-022 describes BTech’s approach to develop a smaller diameter version of the ADC MK 4 Mod 1 countermeasure that will fit into a 3-inch diameter form factor. Designs of the electroacoustic transducers and tuning/matching circuits are described that enable low frequency coverage in a smaller diameter vehicle. The proposal draws on BTech’s experience with broadb ...

This Phase I proposal to Topic N191-023 describes BTech’s approach to develop a method to control depth of a 3-inch counter measure to replace legacy system that relies on a propeller. Designs and calculations are presented that support the feasibility of our proposed approach and that it will reduce energy consumption.