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CAPT JT Elder, USNCommanding Officer

NSWC Crane

Dr. Adam Razavian, SES Technical Director

NSWC Crane

NSWC Crane Technologies

Presented By: Brooke PyneDate: August 19-20, 2014

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NSWC Crane Division

Technical Leadership• 2967 NSWC Crane Navy Employees

– 67 % scientists, engineers and technicians– 70 PhD, 522 Masters, 1303 Bachelors

• 3 Mission Focus Areas– Strategic Missions– Special Missions– Electronic Warfare

• Game Changing Technical Advancements– Since 2000: 179 Patents issued, 195 filed /

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Technical CapabilitiesTechnical

Capabilities

Special Missions

35%

StrategicMissions 22%

Other 5%

Electronic Warfare

38%

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Technical Capabilities Supporting NSWC Crane Focus Areas

Providing innovative technical solutions for the rapidly changing combat environment

Providing innovative technical solutions for the rapidly changing combat environment

•Strategic Systems Hardware

•Special Warfare and Expeditionary Systems Hardware

•Electronic Warfare Systems RDT&E/Acquisition/Life Cycle Support

•Advanced Electronics & Energy Systems

•Infrared Countermeasures and Pyrotechnic RDT&E and Life Cycle Support

•Sensors and Surveillance Systems

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Precise and Portable Antenna Test System

• Automated and portable antenna test system that quickly and accurately measure far field signal patterns in real field environments

• Benefits:– Indoor positional accuracy in a portable outdoor unit– Pointing accuracy within ½ degree and location accuracy of 1 cm

horizontally and 2 cm vertically– Determine far field patterns and polarization measurement for high

frequency antennas in a small test range space

• Status: Prototyped and demonstrated

• IP Suite:– US Patents 8,077,098 and 8,421,673– US Patent App. 2013/093,622– Software code available

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Antenna Portfolio

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US Patent Number Title

6,570,539 Method for vibration detection during near-field antenna testing

7,940,225 Antenna with shaped dielectric loading

8,004,455 Antenna simulator

8,264,417 Aperture antenna with shaped dielectric loading

8,279,118 Aperiodic antenna array

8,692,729 Discone antenna with asymmetric dielectric loading

2013-0093622 Antenna test system software

2013-0176182 Universal antenna mounting bracket

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Critical Infrastructure Protection System

• Open system architecture and software system for plug and play integration of a myriad of sensors and systems for common control and display

• Benefit:– Allows multiple external devices to be networked and controlled– Replaces unique interface devices with single system– Allows for aggregation and presentation of data from many sources

• Status: multiple fielded applications with continuing development

• IP Suite:– US Patents 6,665,594; 6,873,886; 6,903,676; 7,049,998; 8,656,081;

and 8,667,206 and Software code

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Software Portfolio

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US Patent Number Title

8,683,451 System and method for translating software code

8,429,605 Finite state machine architecture for software development

8,421,673 and 2013-0093622 Antenna test system software

6,873,886 Modular mission payload control software

6,665,594 Plug and play modular mission payloads

6,903,676 Integrated radar, optical surveillance, and sighting system

7,049,998 Integrated radar, optical surveillance, and sighting system

8,316,023 VBA environment for managing data

8,238,924 Real time optimization of allocation of radio frequency resources

8,156,050 Strategic missions technical resource center

7,685,207 Web-based product control

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Lasers: Portable Cutting Device

• Portable laser cutting device that can cut through doors, walls, and steel beams

• Benefits – Can be deployed in areas with space limitation and with

limited access to power, – Can be carried by a single user

• Status: Prototyped

• US Patent 8,436,276, US Patent 8,212,709, US Patent 8.367,991, US Patent 8,493,261, US Patent 8,305,252, US Patent 8,420,977, US Patent 8,445,813 and US Patent 8,581,771

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Laser Portfolio

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US Patent Number Title

8,445,813 Compact portable high power ytterbium laser

8,493,261 High power ytterbium fiber laser countermeasure method

8,212,709 High power ytterbium fiber laser countermeasure method

8,305,252 High power ytterbium fiber laser countermeasure method

8,447,563 Fire control laser model

8,452,569 Fire control laser model

8,436,276 Portable cutting device for breaching a barrier

8,420,977 High power laser system

7,812,932 Universal laser range evaluation and verification system

8,149,390 User interface for laser targeting system

8,367,991 Modulation Device for a Mobile Tracking Device

8,581,771 Scene Illuminator

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Perchlorate Free Flares

• Red, yellow, and green flares containing chemical compositions without perchlorates

• Benefits: – Eliminates hazardous perchlorate chemicals– Avoids costly clean up– Provides equal or superior luminous intensities

• Status: – Red fielded– Yellow and Green have been prototyped

and demonstrated

• IP Suite: – US Patent No. 7,988,801; 8,216,403; 8,277,583; 8,366,847;

8,568,542;

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Pyrotechnics & Demolition Portfolio

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US Patent Number Title

7,882,785 Demolition charge having multi-primed initiation system

7,885,784 Demolition charge having multi-primed initiation system

7,472,652 Demolition charge having multi-primed initiation system

6,634,301 Enclosed ignition flare igniter

6,679,174 Flare igniter with slurry grove

6,588,343 Igniter system for a flare

8,028,830 Anti-ballistic composite structure for ordnance

7,632,365 Pyrotechnic Thermite Composition