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"Small craft traveling in rough water experience vertical accelerations from wave impacts that cause short and long term personnel injuries. A boat can be designed to withstand the environment, but the speed-limiting factor is the tolerance of the humanbody to injuries and fatigue. Military and rescue craft often depend on speed for a successful mission. A number of companies have developed sh ...

To meet SOCOM's desire for an inexpensive, lightweight, autonomous UHF satcom antenna system that will operate onboard a maneuvering ship, Syntonics proposes to combine four technologies in a single system: (1) Electronically steered, phased-array flatpanel antennas; (2) Integrated GPS, to facilitate signal auto-acquisition; (3) Beam dithering, to enable signal auto-tracking; (4) Signal strength c ...

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The objectives of the proposed effort are to develop two novel sensors for measuring the product of the film stress with the film thickness, and for measuring the film thickness in situ and in real time during magnetron sputter deposition of thin films. The novel features of these sensors are that they physically move with the production substrates inside the deposition chamber, and that they use ...

Environmentally friendly coating substitutes for electroplated Al, Cr ad Cd parts is a continuing need for government and industrialmanufacturing operations. TA&T proposes a new approach CLOSED FIELD UNBALANCED MAGNETRON SPUTTERING that promises high density, high adhesion, and corrosion resistant coatings with tailorable friction and wear properties. This propsal outlines a systematic plan to d ...

"The purpose of this project is to provide technology for local and global communication with SOCOM combat craft. Specific communication protocols will be designed to optimize the tradeoffs among security, bandwidth, and error rate. The starting point willbe our work on frequency hopped protocols for integrated voice-data transmission. Communications functions will be integrated into the TSi Tride ...

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Today, SOF Tactical users normally must stop moving and setup equipment to perform radio frequency (RF) detection and direction finding (DF). This limits their effectiveness to other team members. The goal of SOCOM in the next generation is to permit onthe move hands free RF detection by way of a Body-Worn Antenna Vest. It is envisioned that the SOF user would attach a receiver and a power sour ...

"This proposal provides potential solutions for the implementation of an inexpensive, rugged, low power tactical data/communication link. This Phase I effort will identify and evaluate custom and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components.The Analog/Video Communications Link can be used by fielded soldiers for data/voice transfer to fellow soldiers or as a link for gathering data from remotely loc ...

An integrated system design approach will be pursued which considers the important aspects for scalable fault tolerant computing. An architecture approach, using selective separation of fault tolerant services from application and COTS components will provide transparency and interoperability among heterogeneous components. Real-time services and policy driven configuration and control will be s ...