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We propose a high-impact innovation for weather forecasting that integrates global ensemble weather forecasts with an AI-driven post-processing model of extreme weather indices. This innovation will provide the basis for skillful probabilistic forecasts of compound extreme weather events at extended lead times. Extreme weather/climate events of relevance to electric utilities focused on in Phase I ...

Oxford Defense North Carolina, LLC (ODNC) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will collaborate to develop a beam control metamaterial surface in this Phase II STTR effort. A concern with laser beamed energy systems is the inadvertent exposure of operators and bystanders to inadvertently scattered or reflected laser energy. In an Energy Web, multiple transmitters and receivers w ...

Under SciTec’s Atmospheric InfraRed Transmittance Calculator (AIRTraC) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort, we developed a software application to perform autonomous ingest and fusion of available atmospheric profile data with that collected by a ground-based meteorological station to improve the atmospheric correction process for remotely sensed data. SciTec extends this previous w ...

Non-warhead debris from a typical anti-ship or air-to-air missile can comprise as much as 70% of the total striking mass, which makes it a crucial component of any lethality or survivability assessment and increasingly important as stand-off missile programs are rising in demand.  Many current LVS modeling tools in use by the government do not address residual non-warhead missile debris at all, a ...

Navigation of aircraft using the crustal magnetic field variation of the earth is a novel and developing technique for use in GPS-denied environments. Location estimation is accomplished by matching the magnetic field measurements in flight to a specific track on a magnetic map of the globe. Atomic scalar magnetometers are ideally suited for use on aircraft because they are not sensitive to aircra ...

We propose a two year program to develop an atomic vector magnetometer to replace standard commercial fluxgate magnetometers in use by the US Navy. Thousands of fluxgate magnetometers are used to measure ship magnetic signatures and they are often limited by low frequency drift. An vector magnetometer based on atomic spin will have significantly improved drift. The alkali metal atomic vector magne ...

Growing amounts of text and visual files are being stored in document archives at organizations' servers, network attached storage devices and cloud storage services. These archives contain valuable information that is not cataloged in a data-driven manner conducive to discovery.  Under an SBIR Phase II effort, Semandex developed Discovery, a cloud-based application that uses Natural Language Pro ...

WISER Systems, Inc. is a small, woman-owned, disadvantaged business providing best-in-class real-time location systems (RTLS) for nearly any environment. WISER’s RTLS powers applications in aerospace, manufacturing, warehousing, yard management, and many other industries. Unlike GPS-based solutions, WISER’s Redundant Radio Localization and Tracking (RRLT) technology enables autonomous position ...

Anuma Aerospace seeks to develop the conceptual design for, and determine the technical and economic feasibility of, a Persistently-Elevated, Gas-free, Aerostatic Sensor Utility System (PEGASUS), which will work like a data buoy in the sky, continuously collecting and transmitting weather data from the marine atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) with the data being made available via application progr ...

In Phase I we developed a software capability for predicting the future positions of ocean drifters. We demonstrated the capability to predict drift for objects of varying shapes and train models based on historical observations. In Phase II we will leverage this software to perform high volume experimentation through which we will fully develop trained models using historical data for both passiv ...