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ABSTRACT:A Propellant Health Monitoring (PHM) Sensor for Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) utilizes actual propellant components in a tiny new sensor called AgeAlert.These sensors provide real-time data corresponding to mechanical property degradation resulting from environmental aging of propellants.The sensors are mounted external to the propellant and automatically track degradation passively without ...

ABSTRACT: Global Technology Connection, Inc., in collaboration with its academic and industrial partners proposes to develop a hierarchical 3-tier fault tolerant architecture to improve aircraft reliability, safety, and availability. The hierarchical system will support autonomous decisions for aircraft mission modification, trajectory planning, and low-level controller reconfiguration. At the ...

Aeroacoustic testing of rotors and propellers in wind tunnels fulfills an important role in the design and evaluation of future concepts as well as existing technologies. Laser-based sensors for standoff measurement of aeroacoustic perturbations are required in order to overcome the limitations of traditional microphones that are mounted on struts. AeroMancer Technologies proposes to develop a Las ...

ABSTRACT:Typically, an organization like Air Force Material Command (AFMC) has a large computing environment which grows organically over a period of years with a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications, often with overlap and gaps in functionality. Understanding this application environment what is there and who uses it, and the purpose being served can be very difficult. T ...

ABSTRACT:The objective of the proposed research is to investigate the feasibility of constructing a 27 cm diameter infrared (IR) source with a calibrated output radiance that is as accurate as the current state of the art, yet fits in a volume that is 10 times smaller than a blackbody of comparable aperture size and accuracy, and outputs only half the power. The required effective emissivity of 0. ...

ABSTRACT:To address the challenges posed by operating in accordance with complex federal acquisition regulations that discourage nontraditional providers from partnering with the government in emerging markets, ARiA LLC, a research-and-development firm that develops machine-learning and cognitive-computing software for commercial and government use, in collaboration with CPJ, a nonprofit nonpartis ...

Centeye will develop a modular and reconfigurable vision-based system that will allow micro and nano air vehicles to operate autonomously in near-Earth environments without the use of GPS. The system will weigh between 1 and 12 grams, depending on the specific configuration. The system will support supervised autonomy, at flight speeds up to 10 meters/sec, in which a human operator provides high l ...

Our proposal includes the creation of a web-based platform that will benchmarking GPU applications accross numerous GPU cards located in the cloud. This is a useful tool for programmers with limited resources at hand. Further, we will open source the ArrayFire software library - the broadest OpenCL available.In addition to this, we will extend Array with additional functionality for image processi ...

Detecting the presence of marine mammals is paramount in lessening man’s impact on the environment as we search the oceans for natural resources. Most human operations in oceans use high powered acoustic sources that can disturb, disrupt, main or kill marine mammals. The ability to detect, identify and locate marine mammals is critical during these operations to mitigate harm. Passive acoustics ...

The proposed research addresses Climate Adaptation and Mitigation: Probability Forecasts of Business Impact Variables from CFS2 Ensembles. Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) develops innovative weather and climate forecast tools that support decision-oriented solutions for our clients. The focus of this proposal is on business-relevant subseasonal forecasts for the energy and agricultura ...