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GEOST has teamed with the University of Arizona to create a one-person mobile telescope, mount, and camera able to track nearly all cataloged space debris.In Phase II of the ISCAD effort also called RoboScope, GEOST and the University of Arizona will implement the Phase I design in functional hardware and software, and then demonstrate the mobile observatory at the customer site.GEOST brings the O ...

Measurement of coordination and performance in team training environments is essential for accurately evaluating training effectiveness and progress. Coordination and performance are tightly coupled. As coordination improves, team performance improves. As command and control systems become larger and more complex, measurement of performance and coordination becomes increasingly difficult. This Pha ...

Production of hydroxylamine nitrate (HAN) and hydroxyethyl hydrazine nitrate (HEHN) is of great concern for the manufacture of AF-315E. Current stockpiles of heritage ingredients held by AFRL are being depleted and those manufacturers are no longer in exi

The purpose of this proposed research is to develop and commercialize a novel two color sodium guidestar laser operating simultaneously at 589 nm and 1141 nm. Our patented T-cavity design combined with VECSEL technology will be the basis for the guidestar development. The polychromatic laser guidestar (PLGS) system being proposed currently does not exist and would allow for the correction of atmos ...

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC) has developed a low-cost passive Radio Frequency (RF)- based system that generates high-accuracy tracking observations using the RF signals broadcast by active satellites. RRC has demonstrated that this system can track a

NP Photonics proposes to develop a high repetition rate, high average power USPL source by taking advantage of our laser technologies based on highly doped glasses. This USPL source has the advantages of high power scalability, compactness, and high reliability. In Phase I, we have demonstrated the feasibility and studied the risk to develop a power scalable USPL using our highly doped glass lase ...

Design a natural guide star (NGS) adaptive optics (AO) system to operate at the Coude focus of a 1-m telescope with correction capability to D/r0 = 20 and Greenwood frequency fG = 160 Hz. Simulate the performance of the system, quantified by the residual

This proposal develops a two-dimensional, FUN3D-based, flow-structure-coupled adjoint optimization framework capable of handling chaotic dynamics, and validate this framework on an elastic tandem airfoil configuration in chaotic flow. To overcome the challenge of sensitivity analysis in chaotic flows, we will develop in this proposal the adjoint NI-LSS algorithm. This algorithm is the discrete adj ...

Control Vision, Inc. (CVI) is proposing a novel Nanosatellite platform with a high performance, low SWAP, multispectral sensor payload. The satellite bus will utilize commercially available, flight-proven CubeSat components to maintain cost effectiveness. The sensor payload will utilize uncooled LWIR sensors with innovative calibration techniques to keep the payload power consumption low while m ...

Current and future explosive munition weapon systems development relies heavily on explosives detonation performance characterization and computational hydro-code simulation research conducted by DoD and DoE research communities. This work in turn relies