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The purpose of the present effort is to provide a capability to the Joint Standard Instrumentation Suite (JSIS) for the characterization of ultraviolet atmospheric scattering in order to better determine the impact of atmospheric absorption/scattering on missile signatures.A working prototype of the Characterization of Off-axis Direct and Ultraviolet Scatter (CODUS) instrument will be built and de ...

Systima Technologies, Inc. proposes the development of an unmanned hypersonic test vehicle recovery system that will greatly enhance the effectiveness of hypersonic flight testing. Systima plans to perform a comprehensive review of the various hypersonic vehicle test environments and recovery requirements in order to develop recommendations for suitable vehicle recovery technologies for the range ...

Black River Systems will develop a graph based software prototype that will demonstrate the following capabilities: (1) Capturing, maintaining, and updating a graph based representation of device/emitter association ambiguities for an airborne integration and fusion capability for MOVINT kinematic tracks and sparse identification sensor information; (2) An automated real time graph solver that pro ...

Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI) is currently collected in areas of US military operations to provide data for analysis of patterns of life and for forensic analysis of human activity in the form of vehicular track. The process for analyzing LVMI data is primarily a manual one, but the volume of data collected by LVMI sensors has far exceeded the ability of analysts to completely process; typica ...

In December 2014, the DoD CIO directed that military services manage the migration of their respective applications from dedicated data centers owned and operated by the respective services, to the commercial cloud. This directive included processes and procedures to expedite the process and is a driving force behind the US Air Force (USAF) data center consolidation initiative. Consequently, the U ...

ACENT Laboratories LLC has a strong history in the area of hypersonic flight testing and understands that recovery of entire flight test vehicles and/or components for post-test inspection and analysis are increasingly important for future hypersonic technology and vehicle development efforts. Under this Phase I SBIR effort ACENT has built on our flight test legacy to develop several innovative ap ...

3D model generation from long-range ISR video is an important part of Special Forces operational planning. The current workflow is manual and time consuming. Existing automated algorithms for 3D reconstruction from high- and variable-zoom FMV are fraught with failure due to both practical issues and algorithm limitations that result in poor quality models. Kitware proposes TeleSculptor: Semantic 3 ...

This Phase II effort continues development of Volume Independent Analytics for Discovery of Unseen Correlations via Tensors (VIADUCT). VIADUCT leverages recent advances in tensor decompositions as a form of unsupervised discovery and the proliferation of open source Big Data tools to address the lack of advanced analytics available to Air Force Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) analysts. This effo ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can provide electronic system designs with a high degree of relatively inexpensive customization. Unfortunately, the fabrication facilities are located in untrusted facilities. This prevents their use in applications requiring a high degree of safety or security. Hidden functionality could potentially be inserted during manufacture. These Trojans can be used ...

The Corrosion Rate Enabled Wash Cycle Updating Technique (CREWCUT) is designed to provide a conditioned-based approach to optimize aircraft and support equipment washing cycle practices, which are currently time-based. It is proposed as an enterprise information system that will automatically extract asset usage (e.g., aircraft flight and deployment history), correlate it to data representing the ...