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ABSTRACT:This effort will provide both a rapid, satellite thermal modeling tool and deployable radiator system specific to Responsive Space needs. The thermal analysis tool will allow users to make rapid decisions and apply appropriate hardware from a specific RS thermal toolbox. The deployable radiators, being a key component of this toolbox, will provide near isothermal radiator surfaces and a h ...

ABSTRACT:A new differential spectroscopic technique is proposed to detect VOCs for environmentalmonitoring and remdiation at Edwards AFB. This new technique has demonstrated promisewith similar materials and can be deployed in a modestly sized unit to providecontinuous monitoring.BENEFIT:This technology is applicable to various types of monitoring application and is anorthogonal signature that com ...

ABSTRACT:Radio-frequency (RF) transmitting devices are found nearly everywhere today, ranging from lower-power cell phones to radar equipment to high-energy weapons systems. Accidental exposure of humans to the RF radiation emanating from these devices can cause harmful thermal effects including tissue damage or death. Modeling these thermal effects across a whole population of humans is difficult ...

ABSTRACT: Data integrity is essential for accurate and deterministic decision making in diverse military and commercial digital systems, and the most common cause of electronic data corruption for many of these systems is electromagnetic interference (EMI). Unexpected and unmitigated EMI, especially from high power systems (HPEMI), can cause deleterious effects ranging from subtly incorrect calcu ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force desires more accurate and more robust navigation for their intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and cruise missiles (CM) which must navigate entirely using the on-board inertial measurement unit (IMU) without an external aiding scheme. Team ATA proposes to develop a new set of algorithms aimed at the Quantification of Uncertainty for Advanced Dead Reckoning Algorith ...

ABSTRACT: The space environment is rapidly becoming more contested as new countries become space capable and traditional space entities continue to push the envelope. The evolving tactical nature of space has driven the need for real-time Threat Indications and Notifications (TIN). ATA is proposing Launch Assessment Threat Indications and Notifications for SSA (LATIN for SSA) to address TIN req ...

ABSTRACT: U.S military logistics fuels such as JP-8 and JP-5 are used across the full range of its IC engines, from those adapted from Avgas to Remove Piloted Aircraft (RPA) applications to heavy duty compression ignition engines. Yet unlike commercial diesel fuels, these distillate fuels have no cetane specification, and so vary widely in this key measure of ignition delay. The result can be s ...

ABSTRACT:Electronic devices have permeated almost every aspect of modern society. Because of our ever-increasing dependence on the services they provide, we expect future electronic products to have improved reliability and increased performance. Microelectronic devices, an essential component of modern electronic systems, are subject to heat generation as a direct result of electric to thermal co ...

A missile will sometimes break into smaller pieces, either by design or as a result of a malfunction or collision. The latter cases are called off-nominal, and can be difficult to analyze, especially if not observed directly. Before break-up there is a single parent object. After break-up there are multiple child objects, likely on very different trajectories. A radar is assumed to track the p ...

Team ATA proposes to develop a set of Trajectory Reconstruction Algorithms for Consistent Event Registration (TRACER) that will estimate the time and accurate 6-state track estimates of the breakup event of a ballistic exo-atmospheric object. Since multiple data streams feed the system, the target tracking needs to be performed in a framework of multi-sensor filtering. This framework also needs ...