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The DRS Team will develop a powerful Focalplane Array Defect Simulation Toolset that will provide radiation (proton) defect distributions within each pixel by utilizing existing, extensively validated Commercial software programs (codes). DRS will tie the

This proposed Phase II effort will capitalize on recent advances in precision registration and coherent change processing of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to significantly enhance the military’s ability to detect, identify and track changes on the ground from spacecraft or high-altitude aircraft. Existing HSI processing approaches that rely solely on spatial and spectral information fall short of ...

As airborne radar missions migrate to orbital platforms, the required size of the RF aperture increases significantly with operating range. This places additional limitations on allowable mass and stowed volume relative to effective launch vehicle options These large physical apertures, high stowage efficiency and low mass requirements promote RF antenna designs with limited mechanical planarity ...

ABSTRACT: Solar arrays power the vast majority of space missions and solar arrays with higher power, better mass efficiency and improved packaging are critical, especially given recent interest in dual launching of GPS satellites. The Compact Telescoping Array (CTA) architecture is a very promising new technology. The backbone of the CTA wing is an extremely mass-efficient lattice truss telescopin ...

Composite avionics enclosures with liquid-cooled card guides are predicted to weigh less than current state-of-the-art aluminum enclosure. While there are many successes in developing composite-based Thermal Planes for advanced avionics applications, limited effort has been spent on the enclosure and significantly less on the card guide. The objective of this program is to design, fabricate and qu ...

Cubesat missions have been identified that would be enhanced or enabled if significant velocity change capability were available in conjunction with preserving the control authority offered by cold gas propulsion systems. Examples include large-scale orbi

This SBIR will develop a new class of computer architecture called an “agent based computing” module (ABC Machine) that enables “cognitive computing” algorithms to be implemented effectively on a large scale. The ABC Machine is a biologically inspired architecture derived from the field of “membrane computing” and is also based upon “statistical dataflow computing”. It operates in ...

Airborne lasers undergo extreme disturbances due to shock waves, turbulent shear layers, and regions of separated flow, caused by the aircraft motion. The net effect of rapidly-varying wavefront turbulence produces degraded beam quality and decreased laser energy-on-target. Unfortunately, progress in adaptive-optic correction has been essentially non-existent because that the required spatial a ...

Information Management is an important component in the development of viable information sharing systems, such as JBI, where shared information may be manipulated to derive further information. The qualities of such derived information depend on qualities of the contributing information and of their sources. Determining information quality requires propagation of qualitative and pedigree data abo ...

Oceanit proposes to develop high spectrum efficient technologies for airborne battle-space communications.