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This effort is focused on establishing an important capability of providing a comprehensive, advanced model of the three-dimensional acoustic field, including propagation, scattering, and reverberation in complex and dynamic environments. This new 3D acoustic model would feed the Navys sonar performance estimation tool with a purpose of addressing the optimal placement of sensors in complicated en ...

The ubiquity of high-resolution imagery and video taken by surveillance cameras, handheld cameras, vehicle-mounted cameras, and airborne cameras is creating a rich source of dynamic data that offers opportunities for effectively solving defense, security and law enforcement problems. But in order to develop effective scene and activity understanding applications we must develop robust, accurate an ...

During Phase I and Phase II, M4 Engineering, Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories have created a unique bonded joint analysis methodology and associated software. During Phase II.5, the developed techniques will be further enhanced and a fully functional commercial analysis code (SIMULIA/Abaqus) plug-in will be created. The software plug-in will make the advanced technology accessible to all leve ...

In this proposed SBIR program, IBC Materials & Technologies, in conjunction with our industry partner Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (MSI) and Texas A&M University, will leverage our knowledge and experience in the domain of industrial metallic coatings to develop a metallurgical coating solution for the Air Foil Bearing. IBC has deep expertise in a variety of industrial coating processes including mu ...

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of using an innovative, durable, low friction, and non-toxic solid lubricant coating for foil air bearings for air cycle machines (ACM). Acrees coating provides superior wear characteristics at all temperatures and provides a substantial improvement over polyimide type coatings that are currently used on ACMs. The coating consists of tw ...

The Department of the Navy has a need for the development of an additive manufacturing (AM) process for key vacuum electronic device components to meet on-demand, flexible, and affordable manufacturing requirements. The developed manufacturing method has a potential to reduce cost of vacuum electronics by as much as 70% as well as simplify and hence expedite production process of these devices by ...