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Addressing a key technology gap in deployment of fiber-optic sensor networks, IFOS and multidisciplinary collaborators are developing an integrated fiber-optic component reliability modeling software toolkit. The RelOptics toolkits analytical engine is based upon predictive failure models developed for the first time in aerospace industry via rigorous environmental testing of optical fiber splices ...

Engines will be getting smaller and hotter for efficiency reasons, requiring novel sensors with extended and enhanced performance. Emerging fiber-optic sensing approaches could provide a unique solution to the widening technology gap between next-gen engine requirements and conventional sensors limited capabilities. The overall objective of this program is to develop techniques to integrate new pr ...

Automatic high-value target trackers have a number of uses, including real-time sensor slewing on user-nominated targets, offline forensic investigations into where a specific target traveled, and assisting with automated missions running on remote platforms. Instead of automatically tracking all targets within a scene, it can be beneficial to focus on a single or small number of critical targets ...

The Air Force has identified a need for a display agnostic common streaming model for 3D data. Third Dimension Technologies (TDT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have formed a consortium to define a 3D streaming model based on open standards for Display Agnostic 3D Streaming (DA3DS). Two factors are driving this need. The first is the dramatic increase in the collection, storage and trans ...

The proposed effort involves the development of improved calibration concepts and techniques for several class of sensors and instruments that are in use by the Air Force in high speed test facilities. While specific sensors and instruments will be targeted during the core of the effort, it is also proposed to develop a high level tool that assists in the overall calibration process by helping id ...

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The Thunderlane Phase II effort defines a new hypervisor model that dissolves the boundary between hypervisor and operating system, and leverages state-of-the-art software diversity techniques for increased resistance to exploitation. The most widely used operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows and Linux) use monolithic kernel architectures that execute most system software with full root-level ...

There is a DoD need for the development of robust sensors to obtain temporally and spatially resolved surface temperature and heat flux measurements on test articles in blowdown and continuous hypersonic wind tunnels. These micro-heat flux sensors are required in order to better understand the state of the boundary layer of a hypersonic vehicle; to better understand boundary layer instabilities; a ...

Embedded systems are critical to national security and personal safety. However, the level of security provided by most embedded systems is low. In this project, we are building WARP, a tool for Weaving Application-specific Runtime Policies into embedded systems binaries. WARP enables end users to formulate and enforce custom run-time policies that protect the software from external attacks and in ...

ExoAnalytic Solutions, teamed with Texas A&M University and Georgia Institute of Technology, will develop Highly-mobile Autonomous Rapidly Relocatable Integrated Electro-optical Resources (HARRIER) with the goal being to design and demonstrate tracking of resident space objects (RSOs) in near-geosynchronous orbit (GEO) using a rapidly-constructed low-cost ground based electro-optic (EO) sensor wit ...