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At the Commander, Task Force (CTF) Watchfloor, the TASW Planners have a series of resources to analyze risk vs mitigations to future TASW operations, to include a Common Operating Picture (COP), METOC and Intel Support. The Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS), a Command and Control (C2) system, was designed to help fuse this data into an ASW tactical picture, however,  current USW- ...

BTech will develop directional acoustic transmitters that can be scaled for use on various unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). Contractor will expand its current developments in compact, broadband, directional projectors to meet the Navy’s needs.

BTech proposes a directional hydrophone for acoustic noise measurements for various host platforms including floats, gliders, and observation buoys. The BTech design is provided in Phase I report including sensing concept and configuration, mechanical packing, power consumption, communication interfaces, sensor (re)calibration methodology, algorithms to extract the information content of the ocean ...

The goal of this SBIR is to develop a Heat Injury Prevention System (HIPS) kit that provides technologies for real-time monitoring to prevent exertional heat illness in a training environment, at scale, for active-duty service members – specifically for Marine Corps and Army personnel. The proposed work for Phase I would involve the development of a prototype HIPS kit that can be used to test, c ...

The amount of data being collected by sensors and cameras has allowed for an explosion in the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to analyze and synthesize useful knowledge from streams of image data. These systems often act as black boxes to observers with little insight into how they function and little knowledge of how trustworthy their predictions and identification. Cu ...

Air-launch weapon system store separation dynamics need to be fully characterized to ensure safety and weapon controllability during the separation phase. The current 6-DOF store separation used by the NAVAIR’s Store Separation Branch is NAVSEP. As a legacy FORTRAN-based tool, NAVSEP lacks commercial-grade software development, documentation, support, and upkeep, nor can it take full advantage o ...

Installation of fasteners and bushings is a perennial problem for the FRCs and remote detachments, since wet-install failures and installation of bare bushings leads to rapid galvanic corrosion.This program will develop a wet-install approach based on Al-rich primer for galvanic corrosion inhibition on bushings and fasteners installed in aluminum airframes. Electrochemical modeling developed under ...

In unmanned underwater vehicles and underwater sensor networks underwater ranging is becoming of increasing importance. Laser-based ranging techniques offer the potential of high resolution and high speed. However, the challenging underwater environments could limit the performance of the optical ranging system. Specifically, (a) dynamic scattering particles distorts the optical beam in both time ...

Emrgy, Inc., a pioneer in commercializing hydrokinetic power systems, is teaming with Premier Energy Holdings, Stanford University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a highly innovative solution to low-cost, riverine and tidal-based clean energy power generation. The project will implement “dynamic tuning” of the hydrokinetic turbine system to optimize performance across variabl ...

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