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ABSTRACT:The overall objective of this proposed effort is to demonstrate bearing technology to meet the requirements for a high performance 1000 lbf thrust gas turbine engine.MiTi and its engine company subcontractor will establish simulator designs of two candidate engines representative of near and longer term applications of the advanced bearings to be demonstrated under this program.The engine ...

ABSTRACT:Emergence and feasibility for flexible body-worn electronics and particularly medical patches requires high performance electronics capability.The problem is that these new technologies must have flexible and conformal physical formats and conventional electronic components are not in any way flexible. In the CLAS Phase I program, a new flexible high-performance manufacturing and material ...

ABSTRACT: ISR analysts are faced with severe challenges due to the volume of data, the speed at which it arrives, and the variety in sensor signatures and scene content. FMV and WAMI analysts face a fire hose of pixel data. Kitware has developed significant capabilities for ISR video exploitation, with a focus on understanding the function of objects and regions in the scene. These function-bas ...

ABSTRACT: In Phase I, PRA working with FLIR modified the command and control (C2) software for their Ranger series of perimeter surveillance radars to meet requirements for flightline boundary surveillance. These radars are ideal for this mission with a 30 cm range resolution, >97% probability of detection, and low false alarm rate (less than 3 per 24 hours). The C2 software was modified to allow ...

ABSTRACT: Kitware proposes MAP-Tk, the open-source Motion imagery Aerial Photogrammetry Toolkit, designed for optimized sparse bundle adjustment (SBA) of FMV and WAMI. The software will use aerial video imagery to accurately estimate the pose and path of the camera as well as a sparse point cloud of 3D structure, even when GPS is denied. Our proposed toolkit has a highly configurable and modular ...

ABSTRACT: The mission of this proposed Phase II program is to develop a compact High Speed SWIR Scene Projector (SWIRSP) capable of generating large format image of 1920x1080 in the short wave infrared (SWIR) region, with a non-flickering image that can update at ~800 Hz (threshold) or greater frame rates. The result is a SWIRSP module that is able to be integrated as a sub-system in a multispe ...

ABSTRACT: In this STTR phase II, HYPRES and University of California San Diego team will demonstrate a small size, weight and power, wideband (2 MHz to 2 GHz) receiver prototype based on SQUID array technology. Our SQUID array designs are based on highly linear bi-SQUID and SQUID cells arranged into a 2-dimensional (2D) array. The 2D arrays are fabricated using high-temperature superconductor I ...

ABSTRACT: Airbreathing hypersonic weapon systems utilizing ramjet/scramjet and/or combined cycle engines will open the door to many new capabilities for the warfighter. Applications include systems ranging from small tactical hypersonic missiles, hypersonic intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, to upper stages for responsive space access launch vehicles. ACENT Laboratorie ...

ABSTRACT: To maintain superiority in the cyber domain, the Air Force is preparing the next generation of cyber warriors. Running trainees through realistic exercises on cyber ranges is a highly effective method for preparing warfighters for cyber operations. However, training platforms and cyber missions are numerous, varied, and rapidly-evolving. What few tools exist to assess student perform ...

ABSTRACT: The overall objective is to enable users on-the-move to reliably and securely send and receive information, targeted for recipients' geographic locations, filtered on their credentials, made persistently available if so designated, and tailored for their devices, facilitating their rapid reaction to changing operational conditions. The team proposes to integrate: wireless physical laye ...