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Among the Navy’s goals for new ship construction are to achieve cost savings in ship installation, to increase survivability of the vital communications infrastructure, and to enable manning reductions through highly automated ship operations. The rapid advancements and proliferation of wireless technology makes it a primary candidate for adaptation to machinery health monitoring, condition bas ...

There is a great need to decrease the dependence upon traditional batteries in modern miniature devices. Not only do batteries increase the size of ever shrinking components, they also do not provide the operational lifetime that is being demanded of newer components. Alternative power sources need to be able to scavenge ambient power from the environment to be able to provide power for newer ex ...

Complex relationships between power system components and utilization equipment require large amounts of measurement points along the service train and estimation of service capability. In the past, false alarms, missed failures, mishandled preventive maintenance scheduling, and underutilized resources have resulted in poor operational performance. Recent advances in information systems technology ...

Detection of weak oceanic currents by remote sensing means is an important task for many applications. Recent destructive Sumatra tsunami (2004) demonstrated a key role of the tsunami monitoring and early warning system for preventing numerous human losses and decreasing property damage. Complexity of the problem is explained by very weak current needed to be detected. Nevertheless there are some ...

In recent years computer displays have underwent a revolution of sorts from the old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) based displays to more modern LCD and Plasma based flat panel technologies. Additionally, several manufacturers are now offering displays known as Autostereographic, that are capable of displaying true 3-D images without the requirement for special equipment such as operator eyeware. Use of t ...

NanoSonic is a small, advanced materials company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of state-of-the-art structural composites that are not commercially available.  Here, NanoSonic shall produce aircraft composites using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques with a commercial scalable method for revitalizing carbon fiber reclaimed from end-of-life and aircraft composite scraps. ...

As modern-day ships require more advanced applications and systems to run directly on the vessel, they require large amounts of computational resources to execute the complex software and algorithms.  While these next generation capabilities provide immense value, the downside is that now the compute servers and clusters required to support these capabilities become single points of failure. To c ...

Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies, and Industry first responders in any scenario involving hazardous materials require easy to obtain, interpret, and visualize characterizations of the environment that they are about to operate in. The applications that generate and make the characterizations available must be must be technically sound with respect to the influence of the terrain and ...

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid state joining process with unique characteristics that offer opportunities for cost savings, new fabrication methods, and new structural designs. FSW eliminates many of the problems associated with fusion welding techniques. In addition, FSW generates a “stir zone” microstructure that consists of very fine, equiaxed grains that are ideal for post-weld f ...

Both acoustic and electromagnetic waves exert forces of radiation on targets in their path of propagation. The radiation force (pressure) results from the change in wave momentum due to scattering by the target, averaged over one period of oscillation.  Modulated radiation pressure (MRP) utilizes the acoustic radiation force by using a double-sided suppressed carrier modulated (DSB-SCM) incident ...