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Robotics hardware has made significant advances in flexibility, power, and precision, as evidenced by their increasing use in novel ways in military and commercial applications. Yet, software and system integration for robotics has lagged behind these h...

The Constructable Platform effort will define a modular, reconfigurable, and expandable architecture for a platform in GEO to provide persistent support infrastructure for multiple, diverse payloads. The platform’s reusability will enable the infrastru...

In a previous effort, GTL successfully demonstrated that the BHL cryotank technology provides a 75% mass reduction compared to the state of the art cryotanks. This capability would double the payload a liquid propellant launch vehicle just from the mass...

While guided munitions have been used with great success, the technology for these weapons is still rapidly advancing and more nations are gaining access to them. In order to fulfill its mission to assure that the US is the beneficiary of technical surp...

The OrbWeaver effort addresses DoD needs for affordable, resilient SATCOM capabilities by developing a system for recycling an unmodified ESPA ring on-orbit to form a large aperture phased array capable of providing high-bandwidth SATCOM services to K-ba...

A Power of Ideas on the Internet (POINT) platform will be developed for the search and discovery of major ideas regarding overseas events that find expression in public online media sites. Through textual analysis of open source content we will trace the emergence and propagation of ideas--as they relate to particular topics and geographic locations. In addition, we will investigate empirical mode ...

IAI proposes to continue understanding social bots behaviors, extract indicators, develop socio-computational models with predictive capabilities to detect bot and botnet (i.e., coordinated groups of bots) activity, measure the impact of bots and their effectiveness, and implement the algorithms and incorporate them in a mature social media analytics software tool. In particular, we will develop i ...

Exploitation of new chip-scale optical frequency comb sources demands improvements in MWIR/LWIR detector performance, including: High speed (5 GHz); high sensitivity (NEP < 1pW/Hz1/2); broad spectral response (Octave); and thermo-electric cooler (TEC) operating temperature. No existing detector meets these demanding performance parameters. Phase I successfully designed and demonstrated an octave s ...

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 ...

Enig Associates, Inc. (ENIG) proposes to accurately assess the design space of munitions containing reactive material structures (RMS) components by comparing their penetration, detonation and combustion effects to conventional weapon systems. Recent advances in energetic materials have produced RMS that enable smaller and more capable warheads. However, warhead developers are reluctant to incorpo ...