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The objective of this Phase II SBIR is to design and build a fully functioning Tactical Antenna Switching and Positioning System (TASPS) that can be commercially produced in limited quantities. The TASPS will be carried aboard a variety of Navy vessels andwill provide temporary passengers aboard the ship the ability to maintain UHF SATCOM communications despite superstructure blockage caused by th ...

The Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) system is a distributed training simulation, embedded in at-sea platforms. BFTT has advantages of always-available training on operational interfaces, increasing frequency and realism of training, while savingspace. However, BFTT must use limited-bandwidth TDLs. Bandwidth must be minimized without requiring changes.DMSO HLA was designed to enable intero ...

The advent of the High Level Architecture (HLA) increased the complexity, time, and expense of performing simulation network integration as compared to the previous DIS standard. While DIS was a simple, fixed data protocol running on top of IP/UDP, HLAhas many additional complexities, including the Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) and API, unlimited Federation Object Model (FOM) structures, and indet ...

Solid state converted (SSC) piezoelectric single crystal materials have been demonstrated to offer 80 percent of the electromechanical performance of melt-grown single crystals - at only a small fraction of the cost. Cost-effective acicular seedproduction methods are needed in order to scale up the SSC process and make it available for numerous defense and commercial applications. This program w ...

The objective of this program is to develop and test designs for a high power acoustic source using solid-state-converted, 1-3 piezoelectric composite material. The solid-state-converted (SSC) material is a highly oriented piezoelectric that displays thehigh strain/high coupling characteristics of expensive melt-grown single crystals. A subscale transmit array will be fabricated and tested to char ...

The objective of this program is to develop and test designs for a high power acoustic source using solid-state-converted, 1-3 piezoelectric composite material. The solid-state-converted (SSC) material is a highly oriented piezoelectric that displays thehigh strain/high coupling characteristics of expensive melt-grown single crystals. A subscale transmit array will be fabricated and tested to char ...

A program to develop transducers incorporating solid-state converted transductionmaterials for the MK 54 Torpedo is proposed. The program addresses the need for abroadband, high power transducer that can be integrated with the MK 54. The programleverages several millions of dollars of DARPA investment in a pilot manufacturingprocess for solid state converted transduction materials with propertie ...

During Special Reconnaissance (SR) missions, U.S. Special Operating Forces (SOF) require tactical VHF/UHF antennas with physical and electrical characteristics, as well as radiation performance, that significantly exceed those of the antennas currentlyissued with legacy radios. This proposal addresses the design and development of an Enhanced Antenna Suite (EAS) that can be tailored to SOF needs ...

Conventional ceramic radomes materials have reached their performance and life limitations, predominantly due to more severe flight environments and targeting requirements for advanced missile systems, and the resultant increase in radomes materialsproperty requirements. This problem has become exacerbated with the phase out of Pyroceram as a commercially available radome material, since alternat ...

Optical coupling to an active earplug removes the wire link needed for conventional wired active earplugs. This improves ease of don and doff, eliminates potential snag hazards of a wire link and removes EMI or TEMPEST concerns with a wire link. Inaddition, there is no problem with radio interference or crosstalk that might be caused by an RF wireless link. The optical drive technology should be ...