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Ultramafic rocks host two resources that are key to avoiding catastrophic climate warming: (1) elements essential for mineral carbonation with gigatonne-scale carbon dioxide removal and sequestration (CDRS) potential, and (2) first-row transition elements including nickel and cobalt that are critical for the renewable energy transition. These elements are chemically bound within solid mineral phas ...

Ultramafic rocks host two resources that are key to avoiding catastrophic climate warming: (1) elements essential for mineral carbonation with gigatonne-scale carbon dioxide removal and sequestration (CDRS) potential, and (2) first-row transition elements including nickel and cobalt that are critical for the renewable energy transition. These elements are chemically bound within solid mineral phas ...

Numerica proposes to leverage extensive expertise in advanced battle management algorithms, advanced guidance and control algorithms, hypersonic defense, and high-g missile threat modelling to develop a physics-based, real-time prototype battle management and advanced guidance algorithm that produces optimal launch scheduling and optimal guidance for mid-trajectory interception of hypersonic threa ...

It is important to have accurate and reliable position, velocity, attitude, and time information. Spectral Energies, LLC (SE) shall develop Machine Learning (ML) and data fusion algorithms to fuse navigational cues from various external sources. During Phase I, SE designed, built and demonstrated a proof-of-concept device that obtains very-low frequency (VLF) signals and processed them for navigat ...

An accurate inertial navigation system (INS) is a key aspect of many Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems. These navigation systems can be made to be very accurate by using expensive, high precision inertial sensors and/or by the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) to correct for unavoidable errors that will arise and propagate in a traditional INS. However, recent advances by our adversa ...

Specifications of large, legacy systems can consist of thousands of requirements. Manually associating these requirements with architecture components is very time consuming. Given the number of MDA systems and simulations and their long legacies, the task of manually converting to architecture diagrams is challenging. To address this need, Edaptive Computing, Inc. (ECI) proposes the Automatic Req ...

An AI/ML-enabled simulation optimization tool can exploit existing simulation models to streamline the scenario planning and analysis process. Our Phase II project will focus on using AI/ML techniques and simulation optimization to solve the problem of generating a minimal collection of test scenarios, using the minimum number of shared scenario components that meets a required set of test objecti ...

OptTek will apply our novel mapping, adaptive sampling, and optimization capabilities to help MDA better understand the operational effectiveness of the MDS under multi-threat missile raids. While digital simulations provide faster feedback on missile defense performance than a ground test, the computational costs are still too high to handle the combinatorial explosion of parameter combinations a ...

Under the Phase I effort, NAVSYS developed a design for an alternative navigation (ALTNAV) external aiding solution that utilizes signals of opportunity (SoOP) from a combination of commercial and military space systems leveraging NAVSYS PNT as a Service (PNTaaS) technology developed under contract to DARPA, Air Force, and Navy customers. Under the Phase II effort, we propose to build and test a P ...

Infinity Labs proposes a Phase II solution that takes lessons learned and prototypes developed in Phase I to build the Missile Defense Evaluation and Assessment Tool (MDEAT). This tool will provide a means to analyze a missile defense system’s performance against multi-missile raid scenarios and portray results through intuitive visualizations. We will use our expertise to enhance AFSIM’s func ...