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In this Phase I effort, CFD Research proposes the creation of a lightning services API using data from the GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and the development of valued-added lightning initiation and cessation products. Leveraging CFD Research’s experience in software and API development and atmospheric sciences for lightning research applications, this API will provide a simplif ...

The vision of Weather Ready Nation is achieved through the synthesis of the large number of NOAA products and services into meaningful and actionable information for community stakeholders and individual populations. The challenge is an increasing desire from these stakeholders and populations for forecast confidence and quantification of uncertainty in weather forecast products. Many community st ...

"We will demonstrate the feasibility of a novel cloud type identification system that uses a voice application to collect surface observations. This capability meets NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts and to share that knowledge and information with others . Many weather observing stations have replaced human observations with weather satelli ...

Polarization imaging has shown significant improvements in contrast in several target detection and discrimination applications. Infrared earth backgrounds can be very complex making it very difficult for a thermal passive sensor system to acquire and identify a target amongst background objects of similar color, size and temperature. Because of this difficulty, the Army has identified the need to ...

Polaris Sensor Technologies proposes a gun-launched intelligent munition concept for both fixed and moving targets which uses small, low cost sensors. It exploits sensor fusion and polarization measurement to obtain object detection candidates at extended ranges. An Automatic Target Recognition algorithm is used to confirm that the correct candidates are targeted, and employs a new classifier arch ...

UltraQuantum proposes to develop a novel technology based on photogalvanic effect in the smart low-symmetry materials (photosensitive pyroelectrics). A Bulk Photovoltaic Effect, also called a Giant Photogalvanic Effect (GPE) was discovered in homogeneous pyroelectric/ferroelectric materials, and has proved to be efficient in the generation of high-voltage pulses (hundreds kV) as well as a DC high ...

In this SBIR project, a mathematical and numerical framework with efficient conforming methods for the design, analysis, and optimization of the performance of mobility system components will be developed. Phase I effort will focus on the development of automated isogeometric mesh generation to enable the dynamic simulations of surface deformation or relative motion encountered in applications suc ...

Epigenetic changes in DNA methylation pattern can result due to aging, diseases, or environmental changes and have been identified as biomarkers for several neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a result, DNA methylation signatures are being explored to assist with disease diagnosis, monitoring disease p ...

The Army maintains extensive data sets to document historical and current field experience with in-service aircraft.  These data sets reflect current aviation fleet performance under austere conditions all across the globe. Engineering, logistics, and maintenance organizations use these data sets as inputs to guide decisions about engineering and sustainment planning, forecasting supply chain act ...

A first principles based modeling approach utilizing fluid structure interaction is proposed to enable simulation of transient combustion effects on the observable signatures of maneuvering hypersonic configurations during extreme maneuvers. Existing 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) software previously used to simulate and design rocket engines incl ...