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The EAS will be deployed by an LBS-UUV to conduct Naval Oceanographic Surveys in shallow water. The unit will consist of a housing containing a projector, a programmable power amplifier assembly, and a battery pack. The EAS projector will be designed to maximize the percentage of energy projected in the direction of the projector's face. The unit will sit with the projector face-down on the ocean ...

The goal is to develop external mechanical filters to eliminate signals above 2 kHz from accelerometers. Domincas patented layered-media approach will be used to develop filters for high-shock accelerometers used in explosive and impact events. Layered-media theory has been applied successfully in optical thin films, acoustics, and signal transmissions. Filters with and without viscoelastic materi ...

TechFlow Scientific, a division of TechFlow Inc., will leverage over a century of High Power Microwave (HPM) Effects Test and Modeling experience to develop an integrated toolkit that models the vulnerability and susceptibility of electronic systems, subsystems and components to directed energy (DE) HPM weapons. The analysis toolkit developed will center on three essential modules, critical in a f ...

Fighter jets use dual starter generators that provide dc power in two channels, and also provide the mechanical power during start mode for starting the propulsion engine. A current application of the dual starter generator has two generator channels each capable of providing 80 kW power at 270 Vdc. This proposal offers application of a different generator technology to support the growing power n ...

This Phase 2 proposal seeks to reach TRL 6 for the single camera passive optical ranging technology by upgrading it and evaluating it against real data from a submarine photonics mast. The single camera algorithm and concept of operations will be modified to account for wave slap, water droplets, fog, other visual obscurants. The technology will be modified to enable ranging convergence in the pre ...

With the thermal and noise requirements experimentally demonstrated in Phase I, Mainstream will focus Phase II on transitioning the functional system developed in Phase I to a production prototype. The Phase II effort will start with the definition of requirements for the thermal management system and selection of the end-use electronics enclosure. Following this definition, Mainstream will adapt ...

A low power COBPTD node will be used to automatically detect and classify targets of interest. We will use target derived kinematics and a rule based classifier to classify high interest targets.

Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) operation represents a stressful, cognitively challenging domain where operators are routinely subjected to both occupational and combat stressors and performance failures can have catastrophic effects. Effective performance in such conditions has many dimensions, including technical proficiency, probability of catastrophic failures, mission productivity, resistance to ...

The objective of this project is to finish the development and qualification testing of Diver Heating and Cooling Systems. Both units are capable of operation from a similarly size battery for greater than 3 hours but can also be plugged into SDV boat power for very long durations. Each of the units proposed will be 8.5 long and less than 4 diameter. The heating system provides 300W of heat to the ...

As stated in the topic, The decision environment in which the Anti-Submarine Warfare Commander must operate during threat prosecution is characterized by severe time pressure, complex, multi-component decision tasks, and rapidly evolving andchanging information and situational state. There is therefore an increasing need to extend ASW decision support capabilities with the ability to help operator ...