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Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from large ships represents a disruptive technology for the Navy as it expands UAV capabilities and sortie rates, including swarm launch and recovery. Recently, the Navy has developed new technical paradigms to solve the many challenges associated with UAV operations from ships other than aircraft carriers, including launch and recovery of Group 3 throu ...

FTL’s SharpScan is an innovative, improved-angular-resolution, COTS-based magnetron radar that is modified to be coherent-on-receive, providing access to emerging coherent-radar processing approaches for increased resolution and Doppler shift extraction. Coherent radar processing is an enabling technology that provides higher signal to noise ratio (SNR), reduces target uncertainty, and allows fo ...

FTL's “Structural Damage And Repair Inferencing Tool (SDARIT)” leverages FTL’s 2D and 3D computer vision and machine learning pipeline. It provides an automated pier repair planning tool that accepts inputs from remote sensing systems and is capable of identification, volume approximation, location, and tabular summation of defects, all approximated from conventional construction practices. ...

Digital twins can be imagined as virtual, continuously-learning digital representations of physical assets. Such simulations have the potential to marry virtual and physical understanding of assets such that analog data from the physical product and its surrounding sustainment ecosystem is converted into digital data that is stored, analyzed, modeled, and learned by artificial neural networks (NNs ...

The event of nuclear explosion generates harsh radiation conditions, evaluation of which is critical in protecting the military and civilian personnel from serious harm.  Due to these harsh conditions only very simple methods of radiation assessment are employed, such as measurement of equivalent dose.  Improvements to current instrumentation are sought that would provide energy resolved dose in ...

There is significant need in solar blind ultraviolet (UV) and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photodetectors. When mounted at small satellites and microsatellites, these are used for remote sensing of the ionosphere and thermosphere, satellite-to-satellite deep-UV communication, and as a component of the missile early warning system. High-quality spaceflight solar blind photodetectors should demonstrate ...

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) is a material platform of choice for the fabrication of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). However, the high refractive index contrast of SOI waveguides also makes silicon photonic circuits very sensitive to fabrication imperfections, as the minutest change in the waveguide dimensions can lead to a noticeable change in the effective index of the waveguide, which causes ...

In the condition of a nuclear event, it is critical that warfighters and first responders are equipped with active dosimeters and dose rate meters.  These tools can be made from scintillation-based detector systems that require a high performance photodetector.  The silicon photomultiplier is a compact photodetector that would be ideal for such a detector system, yet their performance suffers fr ...

To ensure the operational effectiveness, lethality, and survivability of submariners and platforms, Submarine Watchstanders must readily perceive and rapidly and accurately respond to time-critical alerts. Due to information overload driven by system complexity and environmental constraints, however, their perception and subsequent response to urgent notifications can be delayed or missed entirely ...

The safety and operational success of the US Navy’s (USN) fleet depends on the expert navigation, seamanship, and ship handling skills of its Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs). To address these challenges, Charles River Analytics and University of Nevada Reno (UNR) propose to develop and evaluate a full-scope prototype Mentoring and Responsive Learning through Intelligent Nautical Skill-modeling, ...