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The development of a new standardized fabrication process of low-cost ridge-waveguide 4.6µm Quantum Cascade Lasers capable of producing multi-watt continuous wave optical power in a nearly Gaussian beam (M2

Ships operate in an environment with a large number of air and surface tracks, where surveillance data may experience gaps in coverage for many reasons. This proposed effort will develop enhancements to be integrated into both current and future shipboard combat systems to provide more operationally useful and realistic predictions of track behavior and location using machine learning (ML) and art ...

Current combat system tracking management algorithms utilize a simple linear predictive model based on last known position and velocity vector to update track data in situations where real-time sensor data is unavailable due to sensor failure or active sensor and/or communications jamming. The linear model becomes a critical point of failure when sensors fail for an extended period of time. A more ...

Towed array movement, as identified by the Navy, is reducing sensor performance and overall material readiness. Sedna Digital Solutions has the technical and technology transition expertise to develop and commercialize a passive control system that stabilizes the aft end of the towed fat line arrays mitigating low-frequency movement and oscillation during operational conditions. The Sedna team wil ...

Lethal threats to Navy vessels from torpedoes and surface craft can materialize quickly. Rapid detection and classification to enable effective evasive maneuvers or countermeasures is a ship-safety priority.Recent improvements in Machine Learning (ML) have enabled advances in commercial classification systems. One subset of Machine Learning is supervised Deep Learning (DL), which uses large amount ...

The Torpedo Defense Functional Segment (TDFS) is a critical component of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare Combat System responsible for surface ship protection against torpedo threats. TDFS uses hull-mounted and towed sonar sensors to detect, classify, and track threat torpedoes, provide evasive maneuver recommendations, and recommend placement of launched countermeasures. B ...

Submarine outboard sensors must send data and receive power through a pressure hull consisting of two-inch thick HY-80, HY-100 or HY-130 high yield strength steel plate using hull penetrators that for safety reasons can only be installed during new construction or major refurbishments. As a result, hull penetrators are scarce resources and are difficult to acquire for temporary sensor installation ...

RDRTec and our partner NRL (Naval Research Lab) along with support from Telephonics propose to prototype and demonstrate a novel, efficient, two-prong Dwell Evaluation Expert System (DEES) plus compressive sensing approach to reducing the probability of an adversary recognizing that a sensor is executing ISAR dwells while maintaining maritime classification performance. The first path is to refact ...

Rotary cannon type weapons, such as the M197 electric cannon, currently require servicing every 28 days in order to remove abrasive particulate and to relubricate the rotary drum. The Navy is currently seeking a one-time application coating, applied at the time of manufacturing or retrofit, which will at least double the time between servicing to 56 days or more. Mainstream Engineering proposes to ...

Buffet is a significant loading source on an aircraft that must be properly accounted for in order to obtain accurate design loads during the initial design phase as well as accurate fatigue loads to properly track the service life of the aircraft. When flow separation occurs during maneuvering outside of the linear aerodynamic regime, the resulting turbulent flow induces oscillations on the local ...