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The Digital Greenhouse concept is to work with users from operational organizations in off-site commercial locations, positioned near Air Force logistics centers, to quickly develop “user storiesâ€Â for use in rapid development of working prototypes. These prototypes will be tested and validated by these users for use in application modernization projects capable of providing advanced ...

SpaceWorks proposes to continue development and advancement of its novel QuickShot trajectory optimization software suite. A number of new modeling capabilities of value when simulating advanced military systems will be implemented. Additionally, a variety of case studies and applications that will showcase and demonstrate utilization of these new features will be conducted.

This Sequential Phase II effort will demonstrate the micro-loop oscillating heat pipe heat spreader technology (m-Loop-OHP-HS) for solid state power amplifiers in a real-world spacecraft structure to advance its technology readiness level for near-term insertion into programs of record. Additionally, the m-Loop-OHP-HS technology will be prototyped in novel materials and form factors to create mult ...

MICA was selected and awarded to ARiA under SBIR Topic AF151-194, technically managed by AFRL/RITB with SAF/AQ-OTI as the sponsor organization. Under prior Phase I and II SBIR efforts ARiA developed, trained, and tested the Machine Interface for Contracting Assistance (MICA). MICA leverages academic and commercial-sector advances in cognitive-computing, deep learning, graph storage, informational ...

Developing secure software is notoriously difficult, partially evidenced by the increasing trend in vulnerabilities disclosed per year. While significant effort has gone into developing tools and automated test frameworks, human behavioral aspects of the software development process have remained relatively unexplored. These behavioral aspects, such as relying on inexperienced developers or prolon ...

Exploitation of weather and climatological information has historically provided significant (and at times decisive) advantages for Air Force and Department of Defense missions (e.g., WWII, 2003 Iraq, etc.) Current and short-term (0-7 day) and climatological (long-term average) weather information near the geographic locations of missions have often been the basis for these operations. However, a ...

Properly securing a CPS requires protecting the integrity of: (1) the command & control functions and the sensory data collected from the CPS; and (2) the critical physical assets such as drones, airplanes, satellites, etc. The risk management approach that has worked so well in the information era - “deploy, patch and update� model - is no longer a viable solution for high consequenc ...

Energy security and resilience is a paramount concern for the Air Force and the DoD. Zeno Power Systems is developing a next-generation radioisotope power system (RPS) that will be able to provide non-stop power for months to years at a time. RPS have the ability to provide consistent and reliable energy, but their use has been limited in the past due to their low specific-powers and inability to ...

The current AdHoc emergency notification system for the United States Air Force is a broken and antiquated process that does not fit the needs of today’s modern war fighter. At a majority of Air Force Bases the squadron members still hand carry a piece of paper on them at all times called a recall roster, which includes all of the names and information of each squadron member, in order to s ...

This proposal is meant to assist the Air Force on the $70 million annual problem of bird strikes. The Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) team is constantly trying to come up with new ways to harass birds so that they are not a hazard for operating aircraft. The BASH biologists are doing their best with the tools that they have, but there are still large expenses being expended by the USAF for bird ...