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During successful development of small diesel engines and generator sets for the Army, DARPA, NASA and others, D-STAR has developed useful experience and technologies for small, compact, light-weight, high-speed diesel engines and power systems. DuringPhase I of the proposed effort, D-STAR will explore development of a JP-8 fueled hybrid diesel electric propulsion system for use on small Unmanned ...

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (FCE) is developing a marine fuel cell power plant for use on naval vessels. The Ship Service Fuel Cell power generator is based on internally reformed carbonate fuel cell technology utilizing naval logistic fuels.Logistic fuels require sulfur removal and conversion to a methane-rich gas for use with the internally reforming carbonate fuel cell stacks. The present fuel pr ...

Ultra-Wideband antennas are a critical component of Ultra-Wideband communications and surveillance systems. Such antennas must cover a bandwidth of 20 MHz to 4 GHz, be omnidirectional, and be convenient to transport and deploy. We consider here how tomodify existing two antennas, the Impulse Radiating Antenna (IRA) and the discone, to achieve those goals. Commercially available IRAs already have d ...

Naval aircraft operate in hostile environments that include sandy or dusty landing zones and/or severe sand/rain storms. Helicopters and other vertical/short takeoff and landing (VTOL/ STOL) aircraft such as the V-22 Osprey are expected to endure thesesevere environments without rapid erosion to the leading edge of their rotor blade. The U.S. Navy is interested in removing the metallic leading ed ...

Under this Phase I SBIR, the Kestrel Corporation proposes to demonstrate the advantages of a novel optical technique for measuring wavefront aberrations under maritime propagation conditions. The proposed technique has been conceptually demonstratedduring earlier laboratory experiments where our distorted grating based wavefront sensor reconstructed phase maps under highly scintillated, but non-s ...

Development of new, low-cost, environmentally friendly, anti-corrosion system to provide passive protection of steel structural features is critical for many industries including ship construction. This problem is especially important in case of protectionof limited spatial areas associated with manufacturing and repairing processes such as joining, fastening, welding, etc. Currently used shipbuil ...

The ONR Phase I STTR solicitation topic is Autonomous Distributed Systems. The core technical objective specified under the solicitation topic is to develop and demonstrate innovative hardware and software to enable advanced networked, autonomous,distributed systems of sensors for surveillance and measurement of the oceanic littoral environment. As a Navy STTR Project, we are transitioning new pr ...

To power small, autonomous ground sensors for several months, MSI proposes a

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Optomec proposes to develop the capability to use the laser deposition process to provide an alternative for investment casting for aerospace-grade Ti-6-4 components. Previous data suggests that laser deposition can be a viable manufacturing route forthese components. We will investigate the mechanical properties of laser-deposited material in thick sections, to determine whether laser depositio ...