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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 ...

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 ...

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Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) proposes a six-month (technical) Phase I SBIR effort to conduct applied research leading to a low cost, high performance commercial upper stage for space launch applications. Two lines of stage improvement will be investigated: 1) high performance composite structures that utilize nanomaterial structures to reduce weight and lower production cost for pre ...

Recent advances in mammalian artificial chromosome design and engineering offer an alternative to existing methodologies for cellular bioengineering and address unmet needs to bioengineer more complex functionalities into human cells for subsequent commercialization. In this ST13B-001 application we propose to demonstrate utility of a novel chromosome-based gene delivery vehicle that is amenable t ...

The emergence of metal-organic frameworks has presented an untapped potential for solving US Army individual and collective protection issues. The majority of work on MOF synthesis has been done at lab scale, yielding milligram or gram quantities. To test practical devices, scale up of MOF synthesis processes to kilogram quantities is necessary. However, most large commercial suppliers are uninte ...

The Area-I team proposes to leverage its expertise and extensive design, analysis, and simulation tools to evaluate the design space of towed magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) systems with the goal of understanding the design trends and requirements in developing a new, lightweight rotorcraft-towed anti-submarine warfare (ASW) system that is optimized to take advantage of smaller state-of-the-art M ...

ABSTRACT: R-DEX Systems proposes to develop the Terabit Optical COMMunications (TOCOMM) System to radically improve airborne Free-Space Optical (FSO) communications. TOCOMM will combine proven spatial, spectral, and polarization multiplexing, advanced coding and channel equalization, advanced optics, advanced laser communications and state-of-the-art pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) tech ...

What gets measured, gets improved. This widely accepted adage is as relevant to the military as it is to business. Measuring mission command has a unique set of challenges. Mission command must be flexible, but metrics are typically fixed. Mission command covers a broad set of interrelated factors, metrics are typically limited in scope. The military situation can change in an instant, metrics oft ...