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CEI will develop a Reduced Cost, Weight, Size and Power (CWSaP) Radar (RCR) sensor capable of acquisition and tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM) at a max range of 5km or greater in clear air and DVEs. The proposed system will have a Field of View (FOV) and angular accuracy that would enable replacement of a passive wide-FOV MWIR sensor (>3 FOV;

TSC proposes a novel approach to building a low-cost, low-power AESA radar in support of tactical target cueing for Army weapons system when operating in degraded visual environments. Details of the proposed system are presented, as well as how the new technology will leverage and compliment existing mature hardware and software.

NP Photonics proposes to design and develop a laser source capable of producing a high energy nanosecond laser with variable parameters and short coherent length by taking advantage of our laser technologies based on highly doped glasses. Tracking illuminator lasers (TILs) have a variety of applications in weapon system engagements including target detection, target identification, pose estimation ...

Current state of the art tracking Illuminator lasers are insufficient for a wide variety of expected high energy laser weapon system engagements.A tracking Illuminator laser with variable pulse parameters is desired to achieve constant radiometric conditions in the return scattered light from a target to a tracking sensor. We propose to develop a fiber laser system in the 1.55 micron spectral band ...

Materials Sciences Corporation (MSC) propose the development of a technology which will enable bridges to be launched and retrieved from lightweight and ultra-lightweight vehicles, thus providing them with enhanced mobility and the means to cross over gaps encountered during their missions. MSC will conduct feasibility studies, and demonstrate the applicability of the proposed bridge placement and ...

nou Systems, Inc. proposes an innovative solution to design methodology and prediction of system performance for systems with inputs of differing fidelity, resolution, assumptions, and other factors.In addition to considering these factors, the solution appropriately accounts for uncertainties in the various inputs to the system, and identifies inconsistencies in inputs, and further adjusts the un ...

Ground Combat Vehicles (GCV) use a combination of firepower (i.e. lethality), mobility, and survivability to perform safely their expected mission.The Line of Effort 1.2 of TARDECs 30-year strategy focuses on protected mobility and in providing mission appropriate balance of survivability and mobility technologies.Diverse mission profiles must also be considered, representing peer or asymmetric en ...

Over the last decade, the systems engineering research community has spent significant effort targeting improvements in approaches for designers interested in trading between multiple competing objectives, such as mobility and survivability. Methods such as set-based design and tradespace exploration now leverage advanced optimization and analysis techniques, reducing computational and cognitive b ...

NexGen Composites has teamed up with HDT Global to develop and demonstrate a lightweight, durable and rapidly deployable bridge decking system in this SBIR project. The bridge decking is designed to interface with an inflatable air beam structure that can support the passage of a medium unmanned ground vehicle weighing up to 3,500 lbs. over a minimum of twenty-eight feet span. The decking will als ...

The use of core sandwich structure architectures enables loads significantly larger than the weight of the core sandwich structure to be carried in bending.The core sandwich structure will be exploited to develop a lightweight, low cost durable bridge decking system to be used with an inflatable bridge.There will be three types of core sandwich structures developed in the Phase I effort.The first ...