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Rapid and efficient ship maintenance and construction is a critical capability for American defense, and that enterprise demands the ability to quickly inspect dark, cramped, and dirty spaces within vessels. In recent years, robots have begun to undertake this task, but have not been fully successful due to being severely limited in endurance, maneuverability, and communications capability. GreenS ...

Row upon row of simple-looking metal capsules are lined up on the deck of a USMC landing craft. One by one, they roll up a ramp and over the side, tumbling into the waves. Sinking to the bottom, each SPAMR rights itself and gets its bearings as its two massive, wraparound wheels propel it across the seabed under command from a central swarm controller. Rolling in formation with its peers to breach ...

Leveraging our over 20 years of fiber optical component manufacture expertise, Photowares proposes to design, prototype, and test an 80µm polarization maintain (PM) fiber hermetic interconnect that is 3mm long for the next-generation compact interferometric inertial sensors.    The proposed approach is based on our established processes in mounting electro-optical and acoustic crystals, which ...

The Navy has identified a need for External Payload Deployment Systems (EPADS) for cylindrical Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) between 5 and 21 inches in diameter. ARMADA Marine Robotics has assembled a team of experts to address this need with this Phase II SBIR. This effort will build upon our successful Phase I Base effort that determined an A-Size (4.875” diameter x 36”) payload body a ...

Human Systems Integration (HSI), a leading developer and provider of garment-integrated, wearable electronic solutions, will design, develop and field a comfortable, affordable and robust Tactical Digital Sidekick (TacDS) garment platform that integrates any desired number of tactile/haptic actuators of the same or different technologies that dramatically enhances situation awareness (SA) for Subm ...

The Navy has rapidly increased submarine capabilities in recent decades, with watchstanders now monitoring more systems and data sources than ever before. In addition to increasing the attentional and cognitive demands on watchstanders, this dynamic creates a balancing act between physical payload and the crew size necessary to handle the systems and meet mission requirements. Cognitive assistance ...

Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) support decision making by leveraging intelligence, experience, and mission objectives to detect, mitigate, and respond to stimuli within varied defense environments (from hostilities to peace). They are well-planned actions. If they fail, information poverty during their creation is the likely culprit. As mission complexity increases due to the increased ...

Under this SBIR topic N16-009, Metis Design Corporation (MDC) has presented a method for detection of damage in complex fastened joints. Rotorcraft have been at the forefront of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). For nearly 20 years, Heath & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) have been used on rotorcraft such as the H-60, CH-53E, and V-22 to collect prognostic data to reduce preventative maintenance ...

A new generation of miniaturized atomic magnetometers is being developed and integrated into naval platforms such small unmanned aerial systems (UASs).  This project leverages a previously developed miniaturized magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) unit to form new UAS configurations and signal processing methods that maximize performance against explosive hazards.

Electronic Warfare goals include controlling the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) by exploiting, deceiving, or denying enemy use of the spectrum while ensuring its use by friendly forces. To support these goals, Triton proposes to develop NOEMON, a neurosymbolic Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS), multiagent-based distributed AI system.  The platform will generate machine actionable Electronic support ( ...