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This project team will fully develop and test AlphaBear 2, a vocabulary learning game for grade 4 to 7 students. Vocabulary is a prerequisite for academic success, as it is linked to stronger performance across academic subjects and improved reading comprehension. It is more difficult for students to participate in educational activities without understanding the key vocabulary associated with tha ...

An increasing rate of launches into deep-space is compromising the Air Forces ability to effectively monitor orbital activity and perform its space protection mission. Through the SBIR Solicitation AF162-002 Commercial Space Catalog, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) would like to explore the viability that Commercial and Academia may be capable of coalescing world-wide surveillance systems and pr ...

The SURVICE Engineering Company proposes to complete the PowerFlow3D implementation started in Phase I using state-of-the-art high-performance computing techniques.Specifically, we propose to further optimize our tomographic reconstruction engine; to im

Achieving desired bondline temperatures is critical to ensuring proper wetting, flow and cure when repairing composite structures. Under this multi-phase SBIR project a novel method for measuring/managing cure temperature in the bondline is being pursued based on patented amorphous microwire temperature sensors that are placed permanently within the bondline and read remotely via low-frequency ele ...

The focus of this research and development effort is the maturation of a small-displacement internal combustion (IC) engine with reliable, on-board, in-flight, start/re-start capabilities specifically targeting compressed carriage sUAS aerial vehicles that are remotely deployed.The advantage of integrating of IC engines into these platforms is a significant increase in range and endurance expandin ...

Hypersonic flight environments can include motion with high frequency spectral content that is difficult to simulate.This high frequency vibration may adversely affect the accuracy of guidance and control sensors, so it is very important to the Air Force Research Laboratory to be able to recreate the motion in a way that allows sensor performance to be evaluated.Motion platforms such as the KHILS ...

This Phase II project focuses on the development of a compact, light-weight, low cost, low power, high resolution, high frame rate, low motion blur, and high dynamic range (HDR) imager for target recognition. We have both innovative hardware and software algorithms. In the hardware, we propose an advanced compressive sensing CMOS imager that has several key features. First, the imager has pixel-wi ...

The state-of-the-art in infrared scene projection uses micro-machined resistor arrays. These arrays have limited frame-rate, dynamic range, and can be cost prohibitive as the array size increases. Alternative technologies are required. The most promising is infrared light emitting diodes (IR LED) based on InAs/GaSb type-II superlattices (T2SL) or W-Quantum Wells, with the ability to tune the bandg ...

There is a need to develop a sufficient-fidelity simulation tool to create multi-sensor datasets for human activity detection and recognition. To address this critical need, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), Infoscitex Corporation (IST), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and Raytheon IDS propose a novel, integrated, high-fidelity simulation tool: HumanView (HumV) of human signatures. The p ...

To further enhance our ability to assess orbital events in the context of highly complex and ever evolving situations, provide a fuller understanding of the space operational picture, support indications and warnings, and to provide tactical protection of U.S. space assets, ADS has assembled a world class team of experts in the fields of Finite Set Statistics (FISST) and probabilistic reasoning fo ...