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Creare is developing a miniature power system for NOA weather monitoring stations in remote locations. This system can provide electric power continuously from naturally occurring temperature differences that exist between ambient air and water in environments such as the Arctic Ocean and the Great Lakes. Generating power directly from these temperature difference uses the atmosphere and ocean/lat ...

The United States has a vast network of pipelines used for fuel transport. This infrastructure, installed in 1950–1970, is one of the largest in the world. Yet poor/missing records of the materials used, combined with the overall age and associated environmental degradation effects, often results in unsafe operation. Current non-destructive inspection techniques are only capable of detecting mat ...

Significance: The asymmetrical and rapidly evolving threats posed by autonomous systems must be countered by tools capable of reducing the asymmetry and evolving with, and ideally ahead of, the threats. Accurate forensic analysis integrated with effective intelligence gathering, analysis, and sharing can prevent attacks before they occur, addressing part of the asymmetry. Developing tools, and the ...

This project will investigate the use of offensive binary analysis techniques to extract data from program binaries for use by a runtime diagnostic engine capable of malware detection and response. The open-source Angr framework provides the basis for the tools used to collect the analysis data needed to support a diagnostic engine. A diagnostic engine capable of using these collected results will ...

URSA, an industry leader in UAV forensics and autonomous systems telemetry analysis, will leverage their existing intellectual property and expertise to create a prototype CUAS evaluation platform. This workstream will produce three critical components: a flexible target UAV platform; a instrumentation payload for detecting, recording, and transmitting external effects and onboard telemetry; and a ...

Photon is a collaboration operating system for teams trying to distill information chaos into smart decisions, often using a multitude of computing devices, geographic locations, and networks. Photon works by turning all of an organization's screens and input devices into a single, unified, collaborative workspace that can be shared between all users across large distances, allowing a given user t ...

Ionospheric scintillation can disrupt systems that rely on transionospheric radio wave propagation, including communications, navigation, and radar systems. Advances are needed to improve forecasting accuracy and specification of impacts. Creare and its research partners propose to develop a new global equatorial ionospheric scintillation model that will ingest and fuse data from a diverse array o ...

The notional thermal performance and mission requirements for Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) components would benefit from the availability of high temperature ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials with good oxidation and thermomechanical durability – especially for next-generation RDE combustion chamber components. This Phase 1 SBIR proposal addresses the requirement to significantly ...

Visual inspection of aircraft outer mold line for coating and structural damage is time-consuming and prone to human error. Creare proposes to develop a laser scanning system designed specifically for surveying the outer mold line. Creare’s scanners will use a novel illumination pattern to enable the entire aircraft to be scanned quickly while providing highly accurate dimensions and locati ...

The Air Force (AF) is in the early stages of migrating business and mission applications to the commercial cloud. For applications to function they require access to data; and AF unclassified data can be voluminous, sensitive and mission critical. A number of AF applications have been migrated to the commercial cloud by SSSC and other contractors; however, the application migrations have been path ...