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ABSTRACT: To address the Air Force need for a miniature infrared (IR) camera that can provide image-based quantitative measurements from engine combustors at high-temperature (HT) and high-pressure (HP), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance development of a new Miniature Infrared Radiation Detection Camera (MINC). The MINC system is based on simultaneous multispectral filtering c ...

ABSTRACT: Hypersonic propulsion systems, such as supersonic combustion ramjets (scramjets) are generally expected to operate from Mach 3.5 up to Mach 7-8 and are designed for specific flight Mach numbers to achieve optimum performance. However, realistic flight vehicles will experience a wide range of flight conditions during a typical mission. These off-design flight conditions degrade the perfo ...

Pyrotechnic and pyrophoric IR decoy flares protect military aircraft from IR seeking surface-to-air missiles by closely mimicking the electromagnetic signature of the aircraft in order to divert the missile from its target. Pyrophoric based decoys have advantages over pyrotechnic technology in that they are more covert, are less likely to start fires, and produce a spectral signature that is more ...

The Common Laser Range Finder Integrated Capability (CLRF-IC) system requires a non-magnetic azimuth sensing module. While Trexs Celestial CompassTM already provides highly accurate, nonmagnetic, nearly instantaneous azimuth solutions within the SWaP required for CLRF-IC and other handheld applications, it has limited operability in adverse weather and twilight conditions and when the line-of-sigh ...

Cloud computing virtualizes the presence of servers, software, and data, and makes them accessible to users on demand. By abstracting the details of how the resources are stored, consumers no longer need the expertise or the control over the technology infrastructure. The consumer reaps many benefits as a result, and the goal is to bring these benefits to a track management system (TMS). While the ...

Hal Technology will develop a compact, rugged, fiber-optic, flush-mounted, Multi-angle Optical Dust Sensor (MODS) for real-time engine health monitoring. Prolonged sand and dust exposure leads to gas turbine component degradation and ultimately engine failure. The MODS will measure particulate size, size distributions, and concentration, and eventually chemical composition. This sensor has an exte ...

Acellent Technologies is developing a system for the US Navy that incorporates innovative ways to detect and track corrosion, measure clamping force and bolt preload in bolted joints typical of aircraft structures. Many of the corrosion inspection methods currently employed in the field to inspect magnesium housings involve disassembling the components and performing a visual inspection. Apart fro ...

To address the Navy need for laser-induced plasma detonation (LIPD), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) is developing a new Ranged Eye-Safe Laser-Induced Flashbang Enabling System (RESLIFE) with minimized risk of permanent eye damage or fatalities. This proposed system is based on a combination of two eye-safe pulsed laser systems, namely the picosecond erbium laser and nanosecond thulium/holmium l ...

Optical perception is essential for USVs to accomplish its diverse range of missions while working autonomously on the surface of water. USVs should have the abilities of automatically seeing and avoiding obstacles as well as recognizing navigation lights and day shapes in other vessels. The current technologies lack the ability to satisfactorily capture images and process the digital data and fai ...

Landing gear systems are one of the more problematic subsystems on Naval aircraft. Landing gear failure can be caused by hard landings due to actual severe high sink rate with high enough GW to exceed the design strength, but are extremely rare. More common are fatigue and environmentally caused failures. Aircraft managers address this issue by making estimations of operational loads, and doing de ...