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"Shipboard intelligence centers deployed in littoral regions arethe "front line" for naval intelligence gathering. Onboardcryptanalysts need to monitor multiple information sources fortrends and deviations from expected norms, detect and properlyinterpret the unusual, and generate Indications and Warning(I&W). Anticipated reductions in shipboard manning and increasesin the quantity of available ...

"The United States Navy is using and/or experimenting with active, coherent and incoherent sources to detect and localize submarines operated throughout the world. As the U.S. Navy continues to develop and employ active sensors and moves into littoralareas occupied by higher densities of marine mammals, adverse environmental impacts are likely to occur. Recently, in a U.S. Department of Commerce ...

"The Phase II research proposed here will develop a model of team collaboration in critical thinking (TC2T) that builds upon the framework proposed by Alberts, et al. (2001) and upon the research team's considerable experience studying individualsteams in command and control settings. From this model, we will develop measures of: (1) technologies that support collaboration (collaboration technolog ...

"The goal of the Phase II project will be to optimize a PLGA form for clinical trials based on characterization of the dose/response of the particulate in small and large animal models. The particular challenge in moving a DNA/PLGA formulation through thepreclinical stages to clinical trials lies in the translation of dose/response information from a very small animal model (rodent) to a larger an ...

"The overall goal (Phase I and II) of this project is to develop an autonomous sampling and chemical analysis system that can be used for detecting trace concentrations of explosives in marine environments. Such an analysis system can be integrated into asmall autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and used for the detection and identification of unexploded ordnance in bodies of water. Phase I invol ...

"The U.S. Navy and private industry are investing heavily inseveral ship electric drive systems. Composite drive shafts withoptimized high torque end fittings hold promise for significantweight reduction. In the HTS ac synchronous motor a compositetorque tube system is necessary for magnet support to minimizeheat leak to the rotating HTS coilsFoster-Miller, teamed with American Superconductor (ASC ...

"The US Navy is aggressively pursuing technologies that reduceship maintenance costs while also increasing the availability ofthe ships. Foster-Miller has pioneered several methods ofmachinery and system inspection and maintenance to reduce costs.Two ultrasonic inspection techniques that yield a full inspectionof submarine propeller shafts in-situ were demonstrated in Phase1. The Phase II program ...

"In Phase I we presented a new type of wide band transmission linetransducer, which covers the frequency band from 10 kHz to 85kHz. PZT and PMN-PT drivers were evaluated for low power, at 3w/cm2, and higher power, at greater than 11 watts/cm2, operationrespectively. The element length is small enough so that themodule with amplifiers and T/R switches together with theelements will not exceed 5 inc ...

"Ship construction represents one of the more challenging planning problems in industry today. The purpose of this proposal is to reduce ship construction and operation costs by making optimal use of available automated fabrication facilities and designingfor maintainability. An efficient algorithm for solving this class of problem has been discovered and its feasibility has been validated in Ph ...

"KaZaK Composites proposes to extend technology initially demonstrated in Phase I for the creation of low cost prototype tooling optimized for fabrication of small numbers of composite prototype or repair parts. Phase I tooling technology demonstrated twomajor components 1) use of digital photogrammetry to automate the development of digital 3-D geometric data for applications requiring repair of ...