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ABSTRACT:The Air Force has a need to maintain strong intelligence capability in semi-permissive and anti-access area denial (A2/AD) scenarios where full-motion video (FMV)-based surveillance assets are rare or unavailable. In such environments, priority is given to leveraging any and all other sources of intelligence available, which may include ?open sources? of data available on the public Web, ...

ABSTRACT:This effort will provide both a rapid, satellite thermal modeling tool and deployable radiator system specific to Responsive Space needs. The thermal analysis tool will allow users to make rapid decisions and apply appropriate hardware from a specific RS thermal toolbox. The deployable radiators, being a key component of this toolbox, will provide near isothermal radiator surfaces and a h ...

ABSTRACT:A new differential spectroscopic technique is proposed to detect VOCs for environmentalmonitoring and remdiation at Edwards AFB. This new technique has demonstrated promisewith similar materials and can be deployed in a modestly sized unit to providecontinuous monitoring.BENEFIT:This technology is applicable to various types of monitoring application and is anorthogonal signature that com ...

ABSTRACT:Radio-frequency (RF) transmitting devices are found nearly everywhere today, ranging from lower-power cell phones to radar equipment to high-energy weapons systems. Accidental exposure of humans to the RF radiation emanating from these devices can cause harmful thermal effects including tissue damage or death. Modeling these thermal effects across a whole population of humans is difficult ...

ABSTRACT: Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) proposes to develop a Liquid Desiccant (LD) based Air Washer (AW) by utilizing Vortical-flow, Direct-contact Mass Exchanger (VDMX) technology recently developed by ACT. This system is based on principles similar to conventional Liquid Desiccant Air Conditioning systems (LDAC), such as falling film or porous wheel, but with the added capability ...

ABSTRACT:The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) represents the nations largest aerospace ground test facilities and includes several wind tunnels that are unlike any other in the world.AEDC routinely provides aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic ground testing to evaluate aerodynamic and propulsion system performance under hypersonic conditions.Its facilities are used to test the flight an ...

ABSTRACT: Data integrity is essential for accurate and deterministic decision making in diverse military and commercial digital systems, and the most common cause of electronic data corruption for many of these systems is electromagnetic interference (EMI). Unexpected and unmitigated EMI, especially from high power systems (HPEMI), can cause deleterious effects ranging from subtly incorrect calcu ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force desires more accurate and more robust navigation for their intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and cruise missiles (CM) which must navigate entirely using the on-board inertial measurement unit (IMU) without an external aiding scheme. Team ATA proposes to develop a new set of algorithms aimed at the Quantification of Uncertainty for Advanced Dead Reckoning Algorith ...

ABSTRACT: The space environment is rapidly becoming more contested as new countries become space capable and traditional space entities continue to push the envelope. The evolving tactical nature of space has driven the need for real-time Threat Indications and Notifications (TIN). ATA is proposing Launch Assessment Threat Indications and Notifications for SSA (LATIN for SSA) to address TIN req ...

ABSTRACT: This proposal describes an analytical approach to model rolling element bearings for gas turbines and similar drive systems. Detailed approaches for modeling bearing material fatigue life, bearing heat generation, and tribology are presented. The resulting analytical bearing code will enable gas turbine engineers and designers to better assess engine lubrication system thermal loads a ...