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Ultra-light weight, highly conductive carbon nanotube sheets that can be bonded to graphite composites while also conducting in the GHz region have potential to broadly improve EMI/ESD systems. These materials have additional applications including: EMI cable shielding, EMI/EMP electronics protection, preventing unwanted EMI emissions, highly conductive ground planes, and ESD layers. This proposa ...

Technology Service Corporation (TSC) will develop innovative waveforms and exploitation algorithms for concurrent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and moving target indication (MTI) in contested RF environments to counter emerging threats from commercial un

ABSTRACT: Current methods for inspecting aircraft engine inlet and exhaust cavities are labor intensive and error prone. Airmen crawl into ducts looking for defects, trace suspected sites on Mylar sheets noting their position relative to cavity features, and manually enter the data into an aircraft assessment system. Technology that can reduce inspection times and eliminate sources of human err ...

The 371st Special Operations Combat Training Squadron (371 SOCTS), Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), and the United States Air Force (USAF) lack the required tools to enable commanders’ rapid, reliable, and precise information sharing to enabl

FireSky/CHATTIN (Cyber Hardening and Agility Technology for Tactical IP Networks) provides cyber defense, agility, and real-time threat intelligence for aerial tactical IP networks. FireSky/CHATTIN drops into existing IP based aerial networks and provides cyber defense. This work involves enhancing FireSky/CHATTIN to provide the capabilities required for deployment to Battlefield Airborne Communic ...

Future Department of Defense (DoD) space-borne electro-optical payloads will require reliable, efficient, and lightweight cryocoolers for sensor cooling. Turbo-Brayton cryocoolers are an ideal candidate for these payloads. The technology is reliable and space proven with one unit having provided over 6 years of successful operations on the Hubble Space Telescope without any change in performance ...

Military aircraft often receive damage from a variety of causes. This damage is detected through visual inspection or through the aid of handheld nondestructive inspection devices. Regardless of the inspection method used, however, determining the damage’s exact location and spatial orientation is critical. Typically, hand measurements are taken relative to structural features such as fastene ...

Hearing loss and tinnitus remain the most common service-connected disabilities, and may be caused by excessive noise exposure, as well as blast and impulse noise.Soldiers who experience tinnitus or mild-to-moderate hearing loss tend to have difficulty understanding speech-in-noise.While peripheral hearing loss can be addressed with amplification through a hearing aid, significant rehabilitation i ...

Production and maintenance of high-performance military aircraft requires tools capable of providing highly accurate measurements on curved surfaces. Creare has developed the Fastener Measurement Tool (FMT) to quickly and reliably assess the depth of both filled and unfilled fasteners relative to the aircraft outer mold line. There is a need to add new modes to the FMT to measure hole countersink ...

ABSTRACT: The current static nature of systems and networks allows attackers to gather intelligence, perform planning, and then execute attacks at will. If instead we remove this underlying static nature and make the network dynamic, many classes of attacks can be prevented by making them too difficult to carry out without detection as well as by reducing their probability and level of success. ...