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ABSTRACT: Fires initiating in engine nacelles and dry bays are the most common causes of loss of aircraft. However, since the Montreal Protocol restricting the production of Halons, a replacement has not yet been accepted by the aircraft survivability community despite numerous testing programs. The costs and limitations of designing new systems based primarily on live fire testing can be mitigat ...

ABSTRACT:Conformal phased array laser weapon system technology is incrementally moving toward technical feasibility.Our Phase 1 Generalized Phased Array Weapon System Beam Director Development (GPAWS-BDD) program completed a detailed optical and mechanical design for a conformal phased array laser weapon system based on requirements developed for the Nutornics High Energy Laser Phased Array System ...

ABSTRACT: The United States Air Force (USAF) has a need to upgrade communications systems on board Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs). Video monitoring of Launch Vehicles (LVs) during all stages of orbit insertion provides invaluable information about the health and status of a launch platform. A modernization effort to enable improved monitoring of a LV through all stages of orbit inse ...

ABSTRACT:Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI), along with its teammates, proposes to realize the multi-function seeker (MFS) concept in a scalable, heterogeneous, dynamically configurable electronic stack.Leveraging its collective expertise in communication systems design, radar systems design, electromagnetics (EM) analysis and modeling, antenna design, RF design, advanced processing architectures, di ...

ABSTRACT: The Science and Technology in Atmospheric Research (STAR) LLC in Boulder, with scientific support from National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is proposing to conduct research and development in the field of integrated water content and Cloud liquid water estimation from GPS Radio-Occultations (GPSRO) and satellite microwave radiances. Key to the success of GPSRO inversions is a ...

ABSTRACT: Welkin Sciences proposes to develop, build, test, and demonstrate Legacy Modem Data Converters (LMDC) to enable the Department of Defenses (DoD) traditional L-band analog SATCOM modems to operate with future SATCOM terminals utilizing Digital IF architectures. The LMDC will be designed to be compliant with the Army Future Advanced SATCOM Terminal (FAST) Open Standard Digital Interface ( ...

ABSTRACT: For navigation of space platforms under GPS denied conditions, there is a need for micro-inertial sensors, with better accuracy and smaller volume and weight than the state of the art. We at Digital Optics Technologies (DOT) have been developing a superluminal ring laser gyroscope (SRLG) that can improve the accuracy of rotation sensing by nearly six orders of magnitude. Alternatively, ...

ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, the capabilities of sensors to gather data has greatly outstripped the abilities of communication links to transmit that data. Accordingly, leveraging advanced sensors requires effective techniques for data compression. In particular, modern satellites provide a vast amount of real-time information that is essential to decision makers, both military and commercial ...

ABSTRACT: The focus of this Phase II effort is to deliver a non-mechanical laser beam directional control unit that is small and lightweight, while minimizing power consumption for use on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) laser radar units. Development of small, compact, low-power laser radars on small dynamic platforms is a difficult problem because of the pointing accuracy, open and closed loop sc ...

ABSTRACT: For decades, very low frequency (VLF) links have been an important part of Air Forces worldwide logistics infrastructure and response-coordination capability. With an increasingly-global proliferation of nuclear capability, Air Force faces an urgent need to update legacy VLF equipment to reliably support scenarios where its applicability is vital, including the nuclear command control a ...