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We propose to build a Tool-Agnostic Digital Engineering Platform Ontology that will allow for faster and more intelligent use of digital engineering tools and allow non-subject matter experts to leverage models and simulations expertly.  Our approach has three novel aspects to it:   First, the Tool-Agnostic Digital Engineering Platform Ontology will be designed such that the models and digital ...

The objective of this Phase I STTR is to identify materials and methods for the development of a highly robust, predictive synthetic model that will be used to manufacture on-demand Colloidal Quantum Dot (CQD) as absorbers for infrared (IR) photodetectors. The goal for the STTR program is to identify materials that will enable uncooled or thermoelectrically cooled, small and low-weight IR sensors ...

The U.S. Army has a future need for multiple secondary high explosive compositions that can also be used interchangeably as rocket propellants. In this proposal we will discuss a method of preparing such compositions via advanced spray drying technology and involving the use of a highly insensitive spray dried nitramine or CL-20 composition which have been plasticized with an energetic polymer t ...

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Modern deep learning-based face recognition systems perform at or above human levels on high quality frontal imagery, but their performance suffers significantly on more operationally relevant imagery with confounding factors such as extreme pose.  This performance degradation is based on two primary shortcomings: poor match between training and test-time image data, and failure to model inherent ...

Resodyn has developed the novel Resonant Acoustic Continuous Crystallizer (RACC) concept which is specifically configured for the recrystallization of energetic nitramines. This technology employs the Resonant Acoustic Mixing technology, which results in a uniform shear field throughout the mixing vessel. Radial mixing is accomplished to such a significant degree that true plug flow is achieved. C ...

System of Systems Analysis Tool (SoSAT), developed by Sandia National Laboratories, is a government-owned software package (GOTS)  with System-of-Systems modeling and simulation capabilities.  Tuning its model parameters depend on less adaptable and manual methods and are subject to human error (operator error) with a limited availability of skilled/trained analysts/engineers familiar with SoSAT ...

The overall goal of this SBIR program is to develop waveguide-based, robust, high-rate, entangled photon pair sources suitable for use in space. These waveguides, fabricated at AdvR utilize periodic poling for efficient quasi-phase matched (QPM) spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) of high energy pump photons into two lower energy signal and idler photons. AdvR’s approach is enabled by a ...

ABMS solutions have been proven, through testing, to be effective at reducing global acceleration of a vehicle in an underbody blast event. The TenCate ABDS, currently at TRL6, has been tested at full scale on vehicles in the Army’s inventory. Designed to be vehicle agnostic, this system uses an architecture and components that can be integrated onto vehicles of different types. The DES vehicle ...