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Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are at the core of Air Force scientific priorities in air vehicle design. As part of an ambitious research program funded by the Air Force, NASA, and DOE, Accelogic is spearheading the development of LAPACKrc, a groundbreaking family of FPGA-based linear algebra solvers able to achieve speedups larger than 1,000x with a single chip. Once completed, LAPACKrc wi ...

3 Sigma Research proposes an innovative concept for interfaces to ontology-based software that will facilitate development of multi-level security aiding tools and data to ensure information assurance.  A primary example of applying this technology would be a tool to assist with the automated creation of security classification guides.  The Ontology-based Security Classification Guide Investigat ...

The Space Network presents severe challenges that will not allow simple reliance on technology transfer from the general Internet. Rather, addressing the problems confronting the Space Network will require the integration of a wide range of developing technologies to support assured, robust communications in a highly dynamic environment. A Network Architecture supporting the vision of the Airborne ...

The U. S. Air Force has identified a need to develop innovative technologies which will enable overall miniaturization of micro air weapons (MAW) to allow such weapons to be sufficiently compact to accommodate diverse deployment scenarios.  Miniaturization of the weapon airframe necessarily requires that airframe components be miniaturized to provide adequate volume for mission payloads.  In par ...

Emerging missions such as deep strike as supported through the VAATE program are being designed to operate at high overall pressure ratios, high turbine temperatures, and for extended periods of time.  A low-cost test facility that can reproduce those conditions is required to test the combustor and turbine materials and thermal/environmental barrier coatings that will be needed to satisfy operat ...

The primary objective of this project is to develop software and data protection technologies that provide countermeasures to sophisticated covert access methods on critical end node computer systems. We believe that machine learning algorithms can be applied to low level data streams in order to detect and prevent sophisticated, covert attacks against such systems. Machine learning algorithms h ...

This proposal seeks to address the problem of computer system survivability. Survivability can be defined as the capability of a system to fufill its mission in the presence of attacks, failures, or accidents. Properties that increase survivability include resistance to attacks, the recognition of attacks and resulting damage, the recovery of essential services following an attack, and the abi ...

The micro-air vehicle tether recovery apparatus (MAVTRAP) is a combination of a tether, and apparatus to attract and capture a micro-air vehicle (MAV). The MAV is attracted to the end of the tether via a signal transmitting the GPS location, altitude and trajectory information. Once closing in on the trap the MAV makes its final approach via vision based detection and targeting. The MAVTRAP is ...

The European Union''s RoHS and WEE Directives mandated the elimination of the carcinogenic, hexavalent chromium coatings for metals, including magnesium and zinc-nickel plated substrates.  The purpose of this project is to find chemistry that will meet requirements of industry performance specifications and of the mandate.  METALAST intends to explore trivalent chromium in conjunction with two o ...

The goal of the proposed project is to develop a robust, high-bandwidth, micromachined Moiré optical-based shear stress sensor and fiber optic lever pressure sensor in a single package with a remote photo-diode/fiber-optic array optical readout for high-temperature, unsteady high-speed flow measurement applications.  The time-accurate, continuous, direct measurement of fluctuating wall shear str ...