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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 ...

This SBIR Phase I proposal will design and develop high performance, energy efficient ion-exchange nanofiber-based paint overspray pocket air filter to capture hexavalent chromate particulate matter and paint shop dust created during sanding, grinding, and aircraft prep operation present in air. ion exchanging polymer will be electrospun to produce high surface area nanofiber and combined with lay ...

Third Dimension Technologies will perform design of a 45-deg x 45-deg full parallax Field of Light Display (FoLD) system in Phase I, and will also during Phase I build a simple 3 x 3array proof of concept FoLD system. A FoLD display provides full parallax 3D viewing without glasses or headgear, just as if the viewer was looking through a window. The Phase I design will include an assessment of spa ...

Advanced turbine engine designs with distributed engine controls aim to place microcontroller processing for smart sensing and actuation electronics in high temperature regions of the turbine engine. Prior microcontrollers rated for high temperature operation have required integrated circuit processes designed for high temperature from the foundry, which require significant foundry investment for ...

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 ...

Pressure-gain combustion systems such as an RDE allow for increased thermodynamic efficiency. In a gas-generator or staged combustion system, an RDE would allow for reduced pump size, and an increase in efficiency. For the past decade GTL has been developing novel propulsion modeling methods and hardware. In this effort, the application of an RDE along with a novel complimentary alternative will b ...

In this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program, Modeling Tools for the Drilling of Polymer Matrix Composites (PMCs), Third Wave Systems (TWS) will develop and demonstrate innovative multi-scale modeling tools for the drilling of polymer matrix composites (PMCs), which is enabled by integration of advanced material constitutive models, detailed-level finite element analysis (FEA), and N ...

This project will investigate the use of offensive binary analysis techniques to extract data from program binaries for use by a runtime diagnostic engine capable of malware detection and response. The open-source Angr framework provides the basis for the tools used to collect the analysis data needed to support a diagnostic engine. A diagnostic engine capable of using these collected results will ...

Differentiating from conventional cybersecurity approaches, the Physical-Cyber System penetration test, PCS-PenTest, evaluates physical side-channel attacks where RF energy is injected into the system and received on unintended antennas, transduced by accidental RF receivers, and causes abnormal system operation and/or state changes.Finding these vulnerabilities is challenging.Given that the poten ...

Data analysis& optimization of the USAF innovation ecosystem (people, products & ideas) that interact with, submit products and the hundreds of thousands of people not tapped into for support the future success of the USAF