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Keeping the Air Force assets flying is difficult enough at depot level where there are extensive facilities and expert help. But in an austere environment, these advantages aren’t present. A recent innovation, the Portable Maintenance Aid (PMA), is a new type of tool to help the human through these situations. PMAs are mobile computing devices that can be used at the point of maintenance and ran ...

The time and cost it takes to integrate new airborne weapons on platforms is still too great. The current F-15E Strike Eagle weapon integration timeline is 4 years, from requirements to fielding, and costs up to 20 million dollars. What is really needed for rapid aircraft-store integration is a development environment for a “plug-and-play” capability like that of today’s PC-based multi-media ...

AeroAstro proposes to leverage its existing innovative miniature star-tracker design to develop an improved star tracker that provides both spacecraft attitude and angular rate information. The resulting system will have minimal cost and impact to spacecraft resources and can easily handle typical spacecraft tumble conditions and provide for recovery from a lost-in-space (LIS) condition. AeroAstro ...

In Phase I, Avtec demonstrated a technique that uses the structure of tactical communications systems to provide a reliable and precise relative time and range synchronization between the participating platforms. This technique uses an unbiased balanced timing messaging system to determine the clock offsets and relative range between a reference platform and an associated vehicle. In addition, b ...

As the complexity of flight controllers grows, so does the cost associated with verification and validation (V&V). Current-generation controllers are already reaching a level of complexity that pushes the envelopes of existing V&V approaches, with little hope for affordable V&V of next-generation intelligent systems. One possible solution is to combine run-time monitors for subsystem components ...

This proposal describes a plan to develop a novel software-based GPS receiver, which would be used for various navigation, guidance and test and measurement applications. The receiver will have improved performance in terms of acquisition, tracking and navigation. (It will have improved dynamic performance and anti-jam capabilities). The block processing architecture will enable improved dynamic ...

Multipath causes the most errors in a well-designed navigational system. Despite many algorithms and techniques designed to reduce them, these errors still compromise most GPS receivers. The ideal solution to this problem would discriminate the paths and correct errors in real time, using hardware and software. In Phase I of this program, we have investigated different types of multipath and thei ...

Cermet, Inc in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology proposes to develop spin Light Emitting Diode (LED) in a 24 month Phase II program. The spin LED is a simple yet powerful spintronic device that produces circularly polarized light and is a potent tool to quantify the spin injection efficiency and spin polarization efficiency.

The goal of this program is to develop ZnO based light emitters fabricated on high quality ZnO bulk substrates. The work will focus on enhance doping of the active layers, target alloy concentrations and prototype emitter fabrication.

To ensure a safe blood supply, donors are deferred for donating if they meet certain criteria, such as symptoms of illness, recent travel to areas endemic to infectious diseases, etc. Understanding ongoing deferrals within the DoD donor pool can help the program better leverage its small donor base and respond to emerging health issues. Blood collected by the program is tested for infectious dis ...