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SA Photonics is pleased to propose the SOCRATES free space optical communication and sensing system featuring the Photonic Optical Multicast Mast Unit (POMMU). SOCRATES enables 360 degree multicast capability of high bandwidth communication in addition to threat search and tracking capability. SA Photonics will team with Prof. Michael Kudenov at North Carolina State University who will investigate ...

The Shallow Water and Surf Zone Minehunting program (MAD SWARM) is described that spans the development and demonstration of swarming micro-air vehicles (MAV’s) equipped with Magnetic Anomaly Detectors (MAD’s) to autonomously detect and locate mine targets in shallow water and the surf zone. The MAD Swarm system incorporates low cost micro-air vehicle (MAV) technology, swarming sensor search/c ...

In Naval, surface electronic warfare (EW), visual displays form critical bridges between warfighters and the complex operational radio-frequency (RF) spectrum they must monitor and interpret. Surface electronic warfare operators and supervisors must monitor and interact with multiple, stove-piped display systems in order to perform their work. Further, the visual displays they employ are not desig ...

Areté proposes the development of Q-switched semiconductor lasers that can be scaled to produce high output peak powers within the blue/green wavelength band. The proposed system will utilize nanostructure quantum wavefunction engineering for gain material designs having extended excited state lifetimes and suppressed non-radiative processes to enable energy storage for high-peak-power optical pu ...

Magnetic materials with high hesitivity values are needed to achieve low-profile conformal broadband magnetodielectric antennas with significantly enhanced efficiency in HF-UHF. The higher the hesitivity, the higher the attainable efficiency in these magnetodielectric antennas. State of the art hesitivity as high as 6×10^6 O/m has been reported in CoZrNb alloy films. Further hesitivity improvemen ...

The Navy is continually developing new technologies to improve warfighting effectiveness. These technologies risk overloading Aircrews cognitive capacities, degrading performance. To mitigate that risk, the Navy needs a system to assess Aircrews physical and cognitive workloads unobtrusively and objectively. To meet these requirements, Charles River Analytics conducted a Phase I effort to design a ...

The introduction of new systems and technologies is critical for maintaining superiority, yet this brings with it uncertainty regarding the impact on users, teams, and organizations. Rigorous test and evaluation (T&E) practices are essential prior to acquiring and instituting new technologies, particularly to objectively assess the workload imposed on end users. Aptima, Inc. and its partners – S ...

The purpose of this Phase II project is to develop computational modeling methods that are able to describe the propagation and interaction of fatigue cracks using the phase-field methodology within the numerical framework of isogeometric analysis (IGA). The resulting computational platform, while focused on fracture and fatigue, will be general, in that any phase-field method can be easily incorp ...

To provide power for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), we propose developing solar cells made using perovskite halide solar absorbers, such as those based upon methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3). Our phase I efforts produced flexible solar cells that exhibited power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 8.1%, a landmark achievement. The proposed research details how to achieve 20% power conversion ...

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 goal of this Phase II effort is to develop and validate Electron Beam Melting (EBM) additive manufacturing (AM) technology for the production of vacuum electronic devices meeting t ...