Award Data

CLAD is a web service to ensure that all data entering a network is properly labeled, and that the aggregate data available to users is within their clearance. CLAD verifies all incoming data as properly labeled, adds the metadata of each document to the metadata of the collection, conducts a shallow analysis to determine if a reclassification of documents as a collection is needed, compares docum ...

Archive enables improved exploitation of persistent wide-area sensors. These sensors offer new capabilities for maintaining battlefield situational awareness, but realization of their benefits is blocked by bandwidth limitations that prevent sending all the imagery to the ground, and by human limitations that slow interpretation of large data volumes. In Archive, foveated (variable resolution) ima ...

The Spotter Phase 2 effort augments the successful Phase 1 approach to provide advanced automatic target acquisition algorithms tailored to exploit large format (LF) imagery. 21st Century Technologies, Inc. (21CT) proposes a suite of detection algorithms specifically designed to address the challenges of wide area aerial surveillance and reconnaissance. Spotter automatically detects vehicular targ ...

The objective of the proposed effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of the scalable 3D display technology proposed by Zebra Imaging to produce realistic auto-viewable 3D images for Air Force applications related to air, space and cyberspace. A display producing such holographic images can provide intuitive visualization of three-dimensional (3D) data and scene information from a wide range of a ...

In this Phase I STTR program teaming with magnetic and materials experts Advanced Powder Solutions will develop a low cost high strength, high tensile, nano-structured soft magnetic alloy and rapid fabrication of magnetic component for actuators using innovative consolidation process. Teaming with system integrators and university experts Phase II will continue the characterization of these high t ...

Electrical contacts represent a critical element of photovoltaic technology and are problematic for silicon solar cell production. Current processes that use silver and nickel/copper top contacts are not cost effective: silver is too expensive and the use of a nickel diffusion barrier adds cost and complexity to the assembly process. Alternative metals such as aluminum and copper have thus far ...

The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) will be a key tool for nuclear science that promises to change the way we view and describe the nucleus. In the RIA, a charge stripper foil will be an essential device. These foils will increase the variety of acceleration schemes and decrease accelerator construction cost. What is needed is a large-area carbon stripper foil that has a uniform mass density of ...

Currently, more than 62 million registered cars and 6.4 million unregistered vehicles are operating in the United States, of which 64% are powered by gasoline engines. The annual consumption of gasoline hit a record high in 2007 at about 140 billion gallons. In 2007, the US government passed a bill to mandate an average fuel economy of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, thereby creating a great need f ...

In hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) that operate at elevated temperatures, an independent cooling loop is used to maintain the reliability of the power electronics, which otherwise would suffer from degradations related to the die-attachment method used in the power electronics. However, the elimination of this extra cooling loop for the power electroni ...

ABSTRACT: Applied Physical Electronics, L.C. (APELC) offers this proposal as a method to achieve near term goals set out by the Air Force, as well as obtain a solution that will forge into the future of directed energy weapons. APELC is proposing a Marx generator-based non linear line suitable for deployment via a UAV platform. The proposed source, referred to as the High Power Non Linear Trans ...