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The U.S. Air Force is interested in developing hypersonic vehicles including reusable transport aircraft, cruise missiles, and unmanned systems. Hypersonic flight regimes result in multifaceted and very difficult design challenges that can be encapsulated into an aerothermoelastic problem, which is a complex interaction of structural, thermal, and aerodynamic mechanisms. When a flexible structural ...

Purpose: In prior research and development, the project team developed Storyworld, a web-based activity with mini-games to support English Learners (EL) in language acquisition. In this project, the team will fully develop and test a formative assessment dashboard that provides teachers with insights into EL student's progress as they use Storyworld. ELs are the fastest-growing student population ...

Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Woot Math Polls, a formative assessment dashboard that converts student math work into data-driven insights to inform teacher instruction and student learning in middle and high school algebra classrooms. Research has marked a decline in math achievement around the time students take algebra in middle school. Technological innovations that pro ...

Purpose: The project team will fully develop and test CloudLab, a web-based dashboard to present scientific data captured by sensors during experiments. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize the actual doing of STEM so that students can apply learning to the real world. However, students often have difficulty collecting, measuring, and applying data from inquiry activities to furt ...

Towards the goal of enabling MIMO capabilities for TCDL radios while maintaining full backward compatibility, we propose the design, development and demonstration of TCDL MIMOnizer, a new appliqu aimed to empower TCDL modems with MIMO capabilities with minimum hardware modifications to the legacy radio such as smart low-lost bolt-on module or smart add-on antenna. In onedesign scenario, the MIMOni ...

EGT measurement in gas-turbine engines is considered a key parameter for optimizing fuel economy and PHM systems.Currently, direct EGT measurements made on turbine modules are limited due to the ultra high temperature (UHT) environment. Accurate EGT measurements and durable sensors are of specific importance for high-performance military turbine engines.optoXense will develop a new FBG-based EGT s ...

Great strides have been made in computational physics algorithms and computational power, allowing for fast computer-aided engineering (CAE) solutions of ever larger simulations involving such fields as fluid dynamics (CFD), electromagnetics (CEM) and structural mechanics (CSM). However, mechanical computer-aided design (CAD) data preparation and manipulation continues to dominate most CAE activit ...

To address the Air Forces need for a tool to evaluate, understand, and predict key influential technology areas within a multi-domain, Air Force-centric future challenge, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Bayesian Multi-Domain Evaluation Tool (BAMDET) based on novel integration of a new analyst interface with a backend software component built around recent advances in pr ...

Clear Aspect Solutions (CAS) offers the Capabilities-Based Assessment Tool (CBAT) as the enabling analytical capability that already meets and even exceeds SBIR Phase I objectives.CBAT has been on a trajectory that currently finds it achieving some SBIR phase II objectives.CAS designed CBAT with a JCIDS driven architecture consistent with SDPE/PFD processes; already meets the SBIR Phase I technica ...

Digital Engineering (DE) is the collaborative use of digital artifacts and tools to perform engineering functions. DE will improve acquisition, management, and engineering of defense systems throughout their lifecycles. Realizing these benefits will require deployment of an ecosystem that will impact people, process, tools and IT infrastructure; and incur related costs.Many architectures are possi ...