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The Systems &Technology Research team proposes to rapidly adapt Vecna Robotics (VR) mature commercial inventory management capability to Air Force logistics challenges. Our Comprehensive Handling and Automated Management of Physical Inventory and Operations Network (CHAMPION) system will dramatically improve inventory handling and tracking at nodes throughout the global supply chain. VRs capabilit ...

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) provides an elite undergraduate educational program that integrates academic, military, and athletic programs to develop leaders of character, motivated to lead the Air Force in service to our nation. By the time cadets graduate and are commissioned as second lieutenants they are expected to acquire a combination of knowledge, skills, and responsibilitie ...

Neutron detector technologies that possess high detector efficiency, high gamma rejection, low-power consumption, and are able to be easily scaled to mission needs are critical for nuclear security and protection against terrorism.This proposal identifies a transformative new approach for neutron detection using a boron-10 activation layer paired with ion-sensitive nanomaterials.Recent work has sh ...

Aircraft tires are tested in a dynamometer with a rotating drum with tiles on the inside surface of the drum, against which a tire is loaded to replicate a range of operating conditions.A new technology for creating tiles that replicate runway surfaces that is optimized for cost, time, and accuracy is required.The proposed solution will address all three of those concerns and will be able to be us ...

Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) require extremely high voltage and high power in very compact packages. For operation, a high power pulse is coupled through several vacuum-compatible dielectric components such as insulating feedthroughs, microwave windows, and radomes. These dielectrics must maintain the high vacuum of a vacuum electric device (VED), and withstand high voltages and large mechanical ...

For intelligence analysts, rigorous and timely analysis of structured and unstructured data demands efficient collection, integration, exploration, and exploitation of multi-dimensional data, across a range of missions and contexts. Unfortunately, the ability to support these tasks is severely limited by current tools that rely extensively upon costly manual processing by analysts and inefficient ...

Tritons proposed program addresses the Air Force need to (i) Eliminate having to manually reconfigure the cargo bay of military aircraft in order to accommodate rolling stock or pallets (ii) Provide powered rollers in order to eliminate injuries to airmen resulting from flipping the current rollers out of the way for rolling stock and manhandling pallets up steep ramps to get them into and out of ...

The Air Mobility Command transports over 300,000 tons of cargo a year and mostly utilizes the standard 463L cargo pallet. Cargo is secured in place with two side nets and a top net, the current approach is time-consuming and inefficient and has resulted in personal injury. Triton proposes a improved cargo pallet restraint system that is simple to install, lightweight, eliminates unsafe practices s ...

A 32-bit, low-power, microcontroller will be developed that operates over a -55C to +200C temperature range and is architected for next generation aerospace systems with an operational lifetime exceeding 10,000 hours. The technology and processes developed and demonstrated through this SBIR program can be rapidly applied to other integrated circuits with similar environmental and reliability requi ...

Busek will develop a long lifetime iodine fueled Hall thruster system (thruster and cathode) for long duration testing in space or on the ground in a space-relevant environment.Iodine is a game changing propellant, never before flown, which stores at three times the density of xenon.For volume limited spacecraft, Iodine Electric Propulsion (IEP) enables a massive increase in delta V with respect t ...