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"A detailed feasibility study of the most viable options for RF dual mode communications for enhanced survivability will be conducted. Three major configurations will be investigated and compared. Adept has developed a network analysis tool for survivabletopologies that will be used to perform a survivability-cost-performance tradeoff between the different configurations. The feasibility of the be ...

"The proposed program is focused on studying UAV critical technologies. Two technologies considered significant to meet the emerging UAV requirements include power extraction and the engine centrifugal compressor material. Therefore, two studies will beconducted in the proposed program:¿ A detailed study will be conducted to evaluate secondary power extraction propulsion system optimizatio ...

"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 ...

"Automated storage and retrieval systems have proven effective methods of increasing efficiency and lowering overhead costs in many land-based industries. Implementing such systems in Navy Destroyer class ships is the objective of the next generation DDX.Automated or semi-automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) improve the efficiency of and reduce manpower required for storing, retrieving ...

"The production of educational content is traditionally labor intensive and requires significant software development skills, time and resources. Traditionally, trainers using Computer Based Training (CBT) do not have the software background or expertiseto rapidly create stimulating content for their students. DiSTI believes that by leveraging previously developed EGO (Encapsulated Graphical Obj ...

"A number of Navy aircraft including P-3, E-2C, and C-130 have electric power systems that use Honeywell generator type 28B95. This generator was rated at 60-kVA per military standard Mil-G-21480A and is capable of providing up to 90-kVA output duringflight. Due to the growth in Avionics, it is desirable to increase the power by 30 to 50%. This must be accomplished within the existing constraints ...

"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 ...

"Design for producability is the key to reducing ship construction costs. The most direct way to ensure that design for producability goals are met is to automate portions of the design process, enforcing producability requirements in software. IndustrialPlanning Technology Inc has developed an automated design and planning technology that is based on the use of high fidelity fabrication and ass ...

"This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project deals with multimode fiber-optic switching based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices and low loss efficient optics for military applications. The two approaches meet the ruggedfail-safe optical interconnect requirements for implementing a multi-mode NxN fiber optical switch that allows aircraft redundancy management and comput ...

"The goal of the Phase I effort is to demonstrate Mainstream's innovative multi-stage autocascade refrigeration technology as a portable, temporary cooling system that could interface with an Organic Airborne and Surface Influence Sweep (OASIS) towed bodyto quickly cool the system and decrease the preparation time required to deploy it. Mainstream's autocascade refrigeration system incorporates s ...