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Refrigerants are known to have harmful impacts on the environment. It is essential that those that are particularly harmful with a high global warming potential (GWP) are recovered correctly for proper recycling or disposal. Unfortunately, all too often, refrigerant is not properly recovered either due to system failure, technician error, or unincentivized industry practice. With implementation of ...

The Ultimate Goal of these research efforts is to develop ALLVAR Alloy athermalizing strut components that enable size, weight, cost, lead time, and performance enhancements of SiC mirrored optical seekers that must withstand extreme exo-atmosphere, endo-atmosphere, and mechanical loading environments. ALLVAR Alloys offer a brand-new strong and ductile support structure solution that can offer low ...

There is a critical need for innovative recommendation technology for digital data engineering artifacts and tools. To address this need, we propose design and implement the Artificial Intelligence-based Recommender System for Model-Based Systems Engineering (ARMS) software as a user-personalized context-aware content recommender system solution for Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) applicati ...

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides strong capabilities to make decisions under uncertain and complicated scenarios. However, there is a lack of explainability of DRL when applied to assist warfighters in training and operational scenarios. To address this critical need, we propose to develop Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Warfighter Assistant (DICE). The key innovation of DICE is util ...

Vertical Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches can be designed to support numerous filaments that simultaneously conduct current. A two dimensional array of current channels can be lithographically patterned on the surface of a substrate to achieve significant power scaling. One of the challenged is coupling the optical trigger signal efficiently into the filament apertures. Nanohmics will desig ...

With significant strides being made on wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices for high-power electronics, there is a concurrent need for packaging encapsulants with reliable long-term performance in a more rigorous operational environment. The WBG power devices are set to be fielded in electric vehicles, aircrafts, spacecrafts, and energy producing systems where working conditions can see temper ...

Quantum computing has the potential to exponentially outperform classic computers for certain problems due to their use of qubits. The use of quantum computing could be particularly useful for the discovery of novel lightweight materials with high-temperature strength properties that far exceed traditional material systems. One exciting class of materials known as High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are al ...

This Phase I seeks to develop optical seekers that must operate in the endo-atmosphere and exo-atmosphere with high mechanical and thermal stability. ALLVAR Alloy support structures have the potential to create smaller, lighter, and lower cost athermalization solutions for Silicon Carbide (SiC) mirrored telescopes without sacrificing the thermal stability traditionally associated with monolithic o ...

Manually auditing for requirement compliance after software is developed can be tedious and costly because the later in the development process that defects are found, the more costly they are to correct. This project will provide developers assurance that they are meeting DoD Assurance Provisions requirements while giving manager’s verification status throughout development and provide auditors ...

FoVI3D is developing a 3-person, graphical workstation called PRISM to promote collaborative 3D visualization. The PRISM workstation consists of wide field-of-view monitors for rendering 3D content as well as high-resolution, 2D touch panels for the customized presentation of operator controls and data. The PRISM graphics API is based on ObjGL, a high-level, cross-platform, and display-agnostic gr ...