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Despite decades of experimental and theoretical studies cyclic fatigue failure remains one of the most critical challenges for engineering as it can occur without any indication of impending failure. More than half of mechanical in service failures are due to cyclic fatigue resulting in unanticipated and significant costs. Metallurgical Acoustic Research Solutions, LLC (MARS, LLC) in collaboration ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop a fully adaptive radar resource allocation framework for concurrent detection and tracking of targets. While the methods we will develop are general, we will specialize our analysis to ground targets by including clutter and using kinematic models relevant to ground targets. In Phase I, we will develop both task-driven and information-driven metrics in ...

In this Phase I SBIR, Oceanit will develop a novel, powerful, adaptable cyber defense capability to support autonomous Air Force weapons systems.

In this Special AF program, NanoSonic shall explore our commercial product, HybridSil ICEPHOBIC nanocomposite combined with WashU’s Distillation Membranes as a Defense-Related Dual-Purpose technology for near-term military functional hybrids (AFOSR FOCUS AREA RTB2) and commercial water purification markets. NanoSonic has developed HybridSil ICEPHOBIC (HS IP) as an ice mitigating hybr ...

The U.S. military uses Fiber Optic (FO) technology for a wide variety of air, sea, ground, and space applications. Military aerospace and avionics applications are especially challenging due to extreme harsh environment considerations, ability to service, and the limited optical power (loss) budget. Based upon consumer off the shelf (COTS) components, this program will develop a new handheld, mobi ...

We propose to perform customer discovery in Phase I to identify quantum grade single crystal diamond requirements for future Air Force quantum technologies with an aim to extend our state-of-the-art diamond synthesis process to demonstrate prototype quantum grade diamond in Phase II and to establish a domestic supply of quantum grade diamond in Phase III.

Missile attitude in flight can be difficult to determine from ground-based images due to image resolution, lighting, object occlusion, and poor contrast. To address the need, UHV and UTARI propose a fusion based approach of 2 well proven methods to solve this problem. First, UHV Technologies will implement their existing innovative and state of the art machine learning methods for image segmentati ...

This STTR Phase 1 project proposes development of a statistical relational learning framework for identification of the function of laboratory equipment from imagery. The proposed framework uses semantic reasoning to incorporate evidence from multiple classifiers and feature extractors, domain knowledge, and scene context for scene understanding and labeling. The Phase I effort will focus on imple ...

Metron, Inc. and Portland State University propose to design, develop, test and demonstrate algorithms that fuse heterogeneous sensor data at an information theoretic level and process these data as detection and tracking algorithms that can identify when new events or targets emerge that are not currently modeled. These algorithms have the potential to provide dramatic improvements in the capabil ...

There are many challenges in creating Air Force systems that are resilient against cyber threats. The cyber environment and its threats are highly dynamic, requiring practices and training to be dynamic as well. Cyber threats must be considered during th...