Under the authority of the Federal
Technology Transfer Act (FTTA) of 1986, CAPT Bruce W. Buckley,
USN, Commanding Officer of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
and Mr. Richard Carroll of Digital System Resources, Inc. (DSR)
have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) to design and develop techniques and technology required
for the production of Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare
Systems (AIEWS). The signing took place on November 22 at NRL.
The FTTA provides for making
federal laboratories' developments accessible to private industr,
and to state and local governments, and for the improvement of
economic, environmental and social well-being of the United States,
by stimulating the civil utilization of federally funded technology
developments.
NRL and DSR will be working together
to conduct electronic warfare (EW) research for naval surface
ship applications and evaluate innovative concepts for adaptation
of commercial off-the shelf (COTS) digital equipment and operating
systems in support of the AIEWS and similar advanced EW
systems.
According to principal investigator
Dr. Joseph Lawrence in the Surface EW Systems Branch of NRL's
Tactical Electronic Warfare Division, "We can no longer
afford a stove-pipe approach to systems development. NRL and
DSR will develop an open systems architecture for EW systems.
Since EW is becoming more embedded in combat systems, this process
will give us a much broader use of EW as a constituent part of
shipboard combat systems."
Mr. Lawrence Smith, the DSR technical
director says, "This CRADA will allow us to combine NRL's
analysis and advanced technology and DSR's experience in systems
development. This, in turn, will accelerate systems development
resulting in a rapid insertion of affordable technical solutions
into the Fleet."
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