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The Design Knowledge Company provides an innovative solution for assessing and fusing real-time inputs from existing sensors and building activity in order to intelligently provision energy towards facility functions.Our proposed OPENER technical approach includes new innovative development along with leveraging existing technology from our related AFCEC and AFRL programs. These programs include r ...

Real-time occupancy sensing is one of the constant goals for energy managers across all facilities, buildings, and plants.The ability to know who or what is in a building and its characteristics for heating and cooling can give insight into improving building cost/energy efficiency and automatically respond to changes in environment, use, occupancy, and related parameters. There are a plethora of ...

Next-generation aircraft thermal management systems require advanced compact, lightweight condensers to reduce the overall size and mass of high-capacity vapor compression systems. To this end, Creare proposes to develop an ultra-compact, lamination-stack condenser with built-in air flow headers to substantially reduce the overall condenser assembly size and mass. The condenser has a unique config ...

Automatic conversion of computer aided drafting (CAD) geometry to computational grids appropriate for high fidelity hypersonic analysis is needed. With respect to grid quality, the output must be purely hexahedral and C2 continuous, even at extraordinary vertices. To accomplish this, a pipeline of local and global CAD repair algorithms will feed into a feature-preserving quadrangulation module wit ...

With the growing complexity of ICs, interconnects become a bottleneck due to parasitics that cause cross-talk, wave reflection phenomena, and timing inaccuracies.Rapid advances are being made in utilizing optical interconnects in ICs where high speed signaling and routing are extremely important. Optical interconnects have advantages of high interconnect density, low energy consumption, and high s ...

The Phase II SBIR effort entitled Air, Space, and Cyber User-Definable Operational Picture/ Common Operational Picture (ASC&UC) Common Operating Picture for Event Response Situation Awareness (COPERS) will design, develop, deploy, and commercialize technology for a first responder Common Operating Picture (COP).The ASC&UC COPERS vision is for an Event, Incident, and Emergency Response/Management s ...

The Air Force and warfighter have a strong need for tools to improve intelligence analysts ability to fuse and analyze large, diversified data sets from a range of different sensors and sources. These data sets can be acquired over large spatial areas and potentially long time frames. The NTellus technology being developed by Etegent Technologies will quickly and reliably identify important inform ...

The overall objective of the Phase II Follow-on program is to deploy a stereo photogrammetry system for real-time measurements of surface ablation rates in a rotating detonation engine (RDE) environment. The key milestones for the program are 1) prototype evaluation in the Detonation Engine Research Facility (DERF) using ablative test samples in an RDE, 2) assessment of the data processing softwar ...

Support for legacy aircraft systems is critical to the warfighter.Air Force sustainment responsibilities encompass thousands of airframes and engines, including systems that have been out of production since the 1960s and 1970s.Among the most critical out-of-production components are those made from aluminum, steel, and magnesium castings.Castings are essential to gearboxes and housings, which are ...

To support Air Force live fire test programs, including design of experiments (DOE), range safety, test apparatus design, model validation, post test simulations, vulnerability analysis (used by analysis of alternative (AoA) studies for design), and war game simulations for accurate kill removal assessment (campaign, mission, and engagement), a tool is needed to rapidly determine the probability o ...