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Many current submarine systems use the OA-9070B or E capstan towed array deployment and retrieval system. The OA-9070 is dependent on friction to generate marginally adequate deployment force to push the array through the friction inherent in the aft rollers. Repeated deployment and retraction cycles smooth the capstan surface, reducing the coefficient of friction to unacceptable levels.Physical S ...

ZKxKZ proposes to identify and demonstrate several new material solutions that will upgrade the performance of the surface coating of capstans used in the towed array handling systems of SSNs. Candidate surfacing materials will be selected with the objective of demonstrating a 40% increase in friction coefficient between the coating and towed array, compared to the current baseline of shot peened ...

Beacons approach to this topic is to develop a Big Data/Fast Data algorithmic platform that brings the actionable intelligence of CBM+ to shipboard operations. Leveraging Beacons extensive software development background and shipboard system experience, the innovation of this effort will be focused at the intersection of data management, mathematics & algorithms, software design & development, and ...

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 ...

This program will develop and demonstrate a secondary payload for meteorological profiling of the marine atmospheric boundary layer from small and medium Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), such as ScanEagle. This new capability will provide increased data for assimilation into Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance sensor performance prediction models, as w ...

Training simulations that currently support Small Unit Decision-Making (SUDM) training are laborious to configure and expensive to manage with live personnel, which results in training that is limited in scope. Current simulations require numerous pucksters to control simulated entities, driving up the manpower costs of conducting simulation-based training. To fulfill the roles of pucksters in sim ...

Mixed Reality (MR) technologies can create realistic and engaging learning environments by merging real and computer-generated elements into a single space. However, the use of such technologies does not guarantee effective learning. In fact, the inappropriate selection or implementation of technologies can hinder learning (Appleman, 2005; Bransford, 2000). Unfortunately, there are no design suppo ...

Our proposed solution will develop a derivative adaptive filter drawn from Control Theory to continuously evaluate threat submarine contact data and negative search data to generate the best fit estimated contact location derived by weighting each member of a set of estimated threat submarine tracks. These estimated threat submarine track inputs to the adaptive filter will be generated from two ty ...

STR will develop a novel approach to 3D imaging and classification of maritime targets using interferometric inverse synthetic aperture radar (InISAR) in order to improve timeliness, accuracy, and sustainability of target recognition in congested littoral environments. In contrast to 2D ISAR imaging or other published InISAR work, our approach provides true 3D metric measurements and true cross-ra ...