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High power generation at millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequencies is expensive and the concurrent need for wide bandwidths at these frequencies creates an extremely challenging problem. Currently the most stringent requirements for mm-wave power and bandwidth can only be practically met by vacuum electronics (VE) technology. At present, vacuum amplifiers with the required performance are prohibitivel ...

Social media platforms have enhanced many communities by facilitating online development of relationships, fostering collaboration, connecting friends and supporting activism. However, these platforms are also environments for people to bully and spread hate. Furthermore, adversaries of the United States and its allies have weaponized social media to spread disinformation. Intelligent Automation, ...

To support Navy Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training for surface fleets during periods of long transit, the Navy would like to consider alternative communication paths that can link shore based trainers and simulation capabilities with trainers and training systems afloat. To support full spectrum training during the training events, there is a desire to selectively turn off communicatio ...

Under this STTR solicitation N20B-T028, the goal is to build on the strengths of HyPerComp’s development in the HDphysics suite of tools to meet NAVAIR’s requirements in solving large-scale problems in electromagnetics.  One area that will receive a major attention in this effort is the development of high order curved meshes for arbitrary geometries with small- and large-scale features that ...

As complexity and performance requirements increases for RF sensors and systems for electronic warfare applications, the need for innovative and low-power compressive sensing (CS) technologies will become urgent in power constrained mobile platforms. There are several DOD and government application areas where this holds true and the high-performance CS technology to be developed in this program c ...

Areté and the Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Lab at the University of Arizona (UofA) will develop an interactive scenario building tool capable of generating realistic synthetic 360° videos in real-time for use in training simulators for periscope operators .  We refer to this solution as RealSynth360.  This novel capability will be created by combining the latest advances ...

In this Phase I project, Oceanit will design a self-healing computing system for use on Navy vessels to keep a ship's primary functions operational in combat should the original computing system be damaged during an attack.

Magnetrons are compact, inexpensive, and highly efficient sources of RF power used in many industrial and commercial applications. For most of these applications, the requirement is for RF power without regard to precise frequency or phase control, and noise riding on the RF signal is not important. For many accelerator, defense, and communications applications, however, these characteristics prev ...

Whereas quantum computers stand to drastically transform computation for a number of existing and future problems, its realization in the near term produces certain challenges.  Simulation and Emulation techniques make it possible to consider the advantages of quantum computation in real-world applications in cryptography, machine learning, signal processing, and cybersecurity.  They also open t ...

The overall goal of this STTR Phase I project is to develop a concept to mitigate the effects of motion/vibration for a shipboard material extrusion additive manufacturing (AM) system.  NAVSEA has been installing advanced manufacturing equipment, including 3D printers, onboard ships in support of shipboard operations and to evaluate performance of the equipment in shipboard environments and in re ...