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The objective of this SBIR program is to improve operational performance of US Army missile systems by enhancing position, navigation, and timing (PNT) for operation in GPS contested environments. The PNT system for the missile platforms will also require the system to be ruggedized to withstand shock during launch and operation with speeds spanning many mach. Mayflower proposes to develop and dem ...

Many injuries in the battlefield are being treated by non-medical personnel(e.g. 42% of tourniquet applications are applied by non-medical personnel). Unfortunately, most non-medical personnel are not provided with opportunities to practice medical skills in a high stress environment prior to completing them during live missions. This lack of practice of critical skills is related to a need to foc ...

Physical Sciences Inc. and BAE Systems propose to develop and demonstrate a scalable process to oxidatively resistant nanometallic matrices for use in energetic materials. The multi-functional coated nanometallic matrices will provide an oxidatively stable, hydrophobic, PAX binder compatible nanoparticle fuel to augment explosive performance and insensitive munition compliancy. The proposed proces ...

Improving the pump coupling efficiency is a technical challenge for high power laser systems. In this program, Photonwares proposes to develop a new approach for fiber optical pump combiners, that promises to significantly increase the coupling efficiency in comparison with current state-of-the-art at the same time also increase the pumping port number. Leveraging our fiber optical pump combiner m ...

The DoD envisions UMS to provide significant operational benefit to dangerous protection tasks, such as CASEVAC. Such systems have the potential to remove first responders from harm’s way and improve the outcomes of combat casualties by enabling rapid CASEVAC in hostile conditions and environments. Multiple designs for such platforms exist. However, in addition to requiring active remote control ...

In order to provide a best of both world solution to the Army which provides the simplicity, reliability and cost effectiveness of a torsion bar suspension system with the flexibility and adjustment of a more costly and complex HSU system, GS Engineering will develop an in-vehicle torsion bar adjustment device. Leveraging decades of military tracked vehicle suspension expertise and starting with t ...

There is a need to replace toxic obscurant smokes with non-toxic alternatives, without sacrificing the efficacy of the obscurant. Nano Terra proposes to formulate non-toxic, hygroscopic materials into smoke formulations that will produce smoke having high mass extinction coefficients. These formulations will produce aerosols with well-defined yield factors, leading to highly efficient smoke genera ...

Commercially available quad-copters could provide an innovative smart attack capability to existing military deployment platforms. This proposal demonstrates a plan to develop a payload for the ATACMS or GMLRS missile systems to deploy a "section" of UAS devices on the battlefield. Once there, these quad-copter UAS devices will navigate to and attack a target of interest using explosively formed p ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to utilize a ground-based simulation facility based upon its patented FAST technology to obtain critical velocity dependent cross section data necessary to validate and extend the capabilities of the DoD’s primary high altitude plume signature code: SOCRATES-P. Far-field plume signatures arise from the hyperthermal interaction of rocket plume effluent with t ...

The objective of this Phase I SBIR program is to design and build a system that measures the strain of (or the force transferred through) the parachute riser fabric throughout a paratrooper jump. More specifically, a surface applied riser sensor shall provide a non-invasive mechanism to monitor the forces and resulting strain on risers during a jump. These sensors are comprised of NanoSonic’s pa ...