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Achieving trustworthy and trusted autonomy starts early in the development process through performing hazard analysis, fault analysis, identifying mitigating requirements, and carefully and rigorously tracing those requirements all the way into design, models, implementation, and tests. However, traceability can be time-consuming, costly, and error-prone. To address these challenges, significant a ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of a bandwidth tailored pump source for high purity photon pair generation. Spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate high purity photon pairs at wavelengths of interest to NASA and the broader scientific community. However, these sources are highly dependent on pulsed pump laser parameters. Traditional pulsed laser sources are la ...

nbsp;nbsp;We will develop methods and a software framework for data assimilation and parameterization (DAPE) using Unsupervised and Physics-Informed Machine-Learning (UML and PIML). We will apply DAPE to parameterize processes represented by the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Hydrological Model. VIC is critical for simulating surface/subsurface water flow in several Earth System Models (ESMs ...

Millimeter sized orbital debris is effectively outside the range of current tracking capabilities which means the data being used to assess and mitigate risk is significantly lacking -- specifically for the small to medium sized debris population.nbsp; The need for better methods and techniques to characterize the existing and future debris field outside the range of remote sensors was highlighted ...

Green Mountain Semiconductor Inc. is proposing a design and method for evaluation pursuant to the solicitation H6.22-1123. The hardware proposal is a radiation hard neural processor with embedded MRAM in an FD-SOI process; however, much of the innovation is put into the evaluation of error tolerance and design solutions to statistical radiation effects. Most fault tolerant design solutions imply a ...

This project will advance technology for the automated assembly of large truss towers.nbsp; Assembly of truss-based structures is one of the leading candidates for establishing some of the early lunar infrastructure.nbsp; Specifically, joining technologies and robotic tools are required to enable autonomous/automated assembly of tall towers as well as shelters, domes and habitats.nbsp; Automated a ...

Optomecrsquo;s proposed innovation is a direct-write additive manufacturing process, creating 25um electrical interconnects that can accommodate 3D steps and are terminated in a wire bond pad.nbsp; These printed interconnects will minimize packaging space by replacing traditional wire bonds with conformal fan-out electrodes.nbsp; This additive manufacturing proposal ldquo;is a science enabling tec ...

This project proposes a coprocessor companion to future radiation-hardened processors that can boost performance using commercial Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). nbsp;This project will investigate the feasibility of using dynamically reconfigurable coprocessing circuitry within a proven fault-tolerant architecture known as RadPC.nbsp; The RadPC architecture has been matured through NASA-fun ...

Materials Modeling Hub (MMH) software integrates modeling, product design, manufacturing, and usage cycle into a digital ecosystem to accelerate, simplify, and strengthen ideation through implementation. When combined with a viable materials information management strategy, modeling techniques can replicate and predict experimental outcomes and material performance with growing accuracy. In indust ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of key photonic components for use in high performance quantum sensors and clocks. AdvR proposes to develop very high performance phase and amplitude modulators for use at visible and ultra-violet wavelengths. The proposed innovation utilizes high performance, damage resistant optical waveguides with high speed traveling wave electrodes to provide int ...