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Team ATA proposes to develop a set of Trajectory Reconstruction Algorithms for Consistent Event Registration (TRACER) that will estimate the time and accurate 6-state track estimates of the breakup event of a ballistic exo-atmospheric object. Since multiple data streams feed the system, the target tracking needs to be performed in a framework of multi-sensor filtering. This framework also needs ...

The team of ATA and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will design and fabricate a novel Tactical MEMS Accelerometer and Gyro (TMAG) as the basis of a high-end tactical grade IMU. TMAG will incorporate a novel design that is both a single-axis yaw gyroscope and single-axis accelerometer with a size of 5 x 5 mm. Three TMAGs can then be aligned orthogonally to make a 6-axis IMU. The IMU would be ...

Management Sciences is widely recognized for its passive instrumentation module that runs Bayesian algorithms which monitor signatures to assess the health and remaining life of electronic and mechanical components. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM Tech) is our research partner. Our approach is to translate a current microelectronic module into an 1-in x 1-in application specif ...

We propose to monolithically integrate an infrared light emitting diode (IRLED) array on the backside of a GaAs substrate whose frontside contains an array of driver circuits. We will develop smaller GaAs substrate via technology to enable smaller pixel pitch and realize a large-scale GaAs-SLEDS read-in integrated circuit (RIIC). Our team consists of experts in IRLED fabrication, RIIC design, Ga ...

Computer signature simulation in the visible band faces several unique challenges: availability of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) data, accurate modeling of BRDF in software, and modeling of reflected earth albedo illumination, which has high spatial and temporal variation. Stellar Science and Surface Optics Corporation (SOC) have teamed to provide a hardware and software ...

In Phase II of this study, MicroNet Solutions, Inc (MSI) will perform extended reliability testing on different types of commercially available molding compounds and package styles available in the market to determine if the molding compound composition significantly changes the environmental testing from both a thermo-mechanical and corrosion point of view.The goal will be to provide a matrix of ...

Galois will build a practical, efficient, modular, deductive code verifier and verification methodology for multithread C11 software. The verifier will take code written to the C11 standard, suitably annotated with function contracts, assertions, program/data invariants, ghost data/code, and any platform-specific assumptions beyond those guaranteed by the standard, and will prove that the code mee ...

During Phase I, Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) proved feasibility of adapting their current technology into a product capable of improving performance resulting in increased efficiency and extended life cycles of heat pumps. The resultant product is a tool named the Heat Pump Sentient (HP-Sentient). The HP-Sentient will improve performance and reduce maintenance costs through aggressive goal-seek ...

Public and commercial application of NOAA developed products such as climate observations, weather products, and datasets are underutilized by public decision makers, infrastructure asset owners, or the public. Communities realize the risk posed by increases in storm intensity, flooding, and heat waves. However, communities lack understandable models targets to stakeholder questions that are affor ...

Recent theoretical studies of eddy flux correlation have suggested that the commonly used assumption of dry air having no net flux is erroneous and can lead to significant errors in reported observations. Presently, dry air density is calculated indirectly from measured temperature, pressure and relative humidity, all of which contribute to increased uncertainties in the result. If instead the den ...