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The ALE Analytics Application (ALE AA) is a tool enabling high-end analytics using thousands of hours of in-flight performance data to predict and prevent failures before they happen. We are coordinating with KBRwyle to apply machine learning techniques using the Hawkeye Flight E-2D Integrated Analytics tool. Mosaic will capture requirements through stakeholder engagement, prioritize use cases, de ...

As sensors become more software definable, the ability to add additional capabilities to them becomes desirable as SWaP is always a premium, especially on airborne platforms – both manned and unmanned. The same can be said for apertures. The prevailing standard is that each sensor has its own aperture. In reality, that does not have to (and should not) be the case. In the high-band and low-band ...

RDRTec proposes to design, develop, and demonstrate feasibility and benefit of adding automatic threat and friendly radar waveform detection techniques to the Common RAdar Collision Avoidance System (C-RACAS). C-RACAS is designated the AN/ZPY-9 and is a part of the future Triton Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) 5 configuration. The C-RACAS has three C-Band Active Element Scanned Array (AESA) ...

The proposed work will design, develop and demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative approach for an infrared polarization maintaining single mode fiber (PM-SMF) solution that operates simultaneously throughout the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) spectrum (2-6 micron). This novel PM fiber will be designed on Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) to offer endlessly single mode in the MWIR and large mode area to ...

Colvin Run Networks, LLC presents the Maritime Agile Intelligent Data Exploitation Network (MAIDEN), extending and integrating leading commercial off-the-shelf and open source analytical tools to support mission objectives with enhanced situational awareness. MAIDEN is built on a scalable and highly flexible analytics architecture supplemented with proven iterative data mining techniques to unlock ...

The success of military operations depends on operator’s ability to consume and assess relevant tactical data. The amount of data available to a P-8A operator is growing exponentially. While this increased volume and variety of data provides more DCL (Detection, Classification and Localization) opportunities, it also increases the risk of cognitive overload for operators. This is especially true ...

In response to the Navy SBIR Topic N19-014, IRGLARE is pleased to propose the development of 4.5µm Quantum Cascade Lasers delivering continuous wave optical power significantly exceeding 10W in a nearly Gaussian output beam (M2 < 1.5). The very high power level will be achieved by scaling device dimensions both laterally and along the growth direction, while still preserving operation on fundamen ...

TransWave Photonics, LLC in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin proposes to demonstrate a new active region configuration for the mid-wave infrared quantum cascade lasers that provide a possibility of scaling the brightness of the device emission by at least a factor of 5 over the current state-of-the art. The proposed laser design concept is based on coherently coupling of the li ...

Musculoskeletal pain and discomfort have been known in the rotary wing community for at least 50 years. A combination of poor seat ergonomics and cockpit design dictated by crash dynamics in concert with whole body vibrations have resulted in airframes that actively promote poor posture and induce high rates of pain within the community. This endemic back pain within the community is accepted as â ...

Modern active sonar systems often have difficulty meeting submarine detection, classification and tracking objectives due to the well-known complication of high reverberation in littoral operating environments. The conventional signal processing implemented in most Navy active sonar systems is optimized for detecting target echoes in noise. The presence of boundary reverberation provides a highly ...