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The U.S. Air Force trains and educates a large and diverse workforce to meet requirements across a complex array of missions. Early-stage training in many Air Force Specialty Codes can consist of large corpora of foundational, static material, so training that motivates airmen is a necessary element in helping ensure a supply of qualified personnel in mission-critical areas like aerospace maintena ...

In order to enable reliable predictions based on full scale vehicle simulations relevant to high-speed ISR missions, detailed interactions among various nonequilibrium physical phenomena and their coupling to turbulent flow structures, characterized by a broad range of length/time scales, need to be accurately modeled. Although detailed predictions can be obtained using detailed state-to-state kin ...

The state-of-the-art in infrared scene projection uses micro-machined resistor arrays. These arrays have limited frame-rate, dynamic range, and can be cost prohibitive as the array size increases. Alternative technologies are required. The most promising is infrared light emitting diodes (IR LED) based on InAs/GaSb type-II superlattices (T2SL) or W-Quantum Wells, with the ability to tune the bandg ...

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

To continue to provide our military a nighttime advantage, near-photon-counting passive-image sensors are required that detect very low signal levels, yet have the dynamic range to handle the large intrascene dynamic range of modern urban combat, nap-of-t

To address the need for scalable, large-format ladar sensors, a robust, compact, ultra-low-noise avalanche photodiode (APD) technology will be developed. The high-gain low-excess-noise APD is based on a cascade of low-noise gain stages that promote determ

Trillium has recently demonstrated the capability to capture NIIRS 9 imagery including the ability to read a license plate from up to 1800 slant range in their 8 diameter HD80 gimbal. This proposal includes an effort to miniaturize Trilliums exi

The objective of this proposal is to develop prototype algorithms and hardware, using Trilliums family of gimbals, to demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining high quality measurement of targeting coordinates from a gimbal operating on a Small Unmanned

A 64 x 64-format InGaAs short-wavelength-infrared (SWIR) focal-plane array (FPA) consisting of pixel elements sized 40 microns or smaller, with near 100% fill factor and high quantum efficiency (QE) in the 1 1.7-micron spectral range will be developed

The project will deliver a flexible open, non-proprietary NDI environment with the capability to capture NDI inspection data through an adaptive interface, using streamlined NDI processes and provide powerful engineering analytics tools for retrieving and