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Advanced ordnance and propulsion systems of the modern era still utilize vintage energetic materials. These old generation materials, such as RDX and HMX, cannot meet today"s more stringent safety and environmental requirements. Unfortunately, in newer compounds created to replace them, the performance falls with the sensitivity. The ORBITEC team proposes the development of new energetic materials ...

In this SBIR Phase II program, we will address the need for a high permeable and mechanically flexible magnetic material for use in the recently developed magnetic flux channel antennas, which are of extremely low-profile. Unlike a traditional non-magnetic antenna, the magnetic flux channel antenna can be placed directly on a metal ground plane without adversely affecting its radiative properties ...

There is a Department of Defense (DoD) need for improved hyperspectral imaging in the mid-infrared and longwave infrared for improved situational awareness, target identification, standoff detection, and remote sensing. Current state-of-the- art tunable filters are single function, have limited optical throughput (~50%), are bulky (~ 100cm3), are slow (~40ms switching time), and have narrow bandwi ...

Total ownership costs and the life-cycle of mechanical components and systems can be vastly improved by increasing the reliability and overall operational readiness of the Navy fleet through the utilization of cost effective software techniques to utilize adaptive learning techniques to automatically understand component interdependencies and accurately predict component failure of equipment syste ...

In the future, Navy personnel will be expected to perform a variety of different tasks and missions in a highly linked, collaborative environment subject to frequent alerts and interruptions. This situation will be operable for all newer class surface ships, which have an expanded range of missions within the context of an open system architecture. One major challenge is insuring that the human-te ...

The DOD has enacted an energy strategy that calls for both smarter energy usage and employment of alternative energy sources such that foreign oil reliance can be reduced and an increase in overall operational efficiency can be achieved. Localized generation presents an exciting opportunity for energy users in general, and the DOD specifically, to increase usage efficiency and exploit alternative ...

1In submarine electronics modules, heat dissipated by electronic devices is typically transported along the length of the heat sink (upon which ICs are mounted) to the water cooled side walls. The current pure copper SEM-D heat sink limits the power dissipation per card to 26W in order to maintain acceptable device junction temperatures. Foster-Miller will demonstrate an innovative Gr/Cu metal mat ...

The technical objectives of this proposal are: 1) perform a comprehensive simulation of 4.6 micron-emitting quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) with suppressed carrier leakage and efficient carrier extraction to design a device with pulsed wall-plug efficiency > 40 %; 2) perform a thermal analysis of 4.6 micron-emitting QCLs to design structures capable of operating with > 40 % continuous-wave (CW) wall ...

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electrical equipment is much less expensive than equipment specifically designed for military use, and provides faster integration of advanced capabilities. Since COTS equipment is typically single-phase, it is distributed between the three power lines to balance the current loading. However, it can be difficult to dynamically balance the currents to the 3% required ...

Submarines have two independent electrical generators to provide continuous power to critical loads. These generators are not coordinated nor synchronized, so switching between them can cause a brief power interruption to the loads. Conventional uninterruptible power supplies can maintain power to critical loads during this switching, but they are much larger and heavier than required, since they ...