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The objective of this Phase II STTP contract is to demonstrate an alternative agile acquisition approach by repurposing excess inventory legacy weapons for future mission applications. Through integration of inventory or new weapon subsystem components within the legacy weapon airframes without modifying the outer mold line (OML), new weapon employment capability may be identified and developed. A ...

New Eagle is proposing to develop, test and transition a variation of the open architecture engine controller system in partnership with Area-I for the AFRL IMPULSE Hybrid Electric UAS program. Hybrid UAVs need a robust and intelligent hybrid propulsion controller to optimize component weight and efficiency. The proposed solution is a tools and embedded controller that utilizes model-based design ...

This proposal describes a very short-range jamming module that attaches to AF Security Forces Remington 870 model shotguns to augment their performance with the ALS skynet round. The module makes the threat drone 'freeze' long enough for effective deployment of the net round. This module can be used with any C-sUAS weapon or platform deploying ALS net rounds. It can also be mounted onto a pistol g ...

Both commercial and military laser systems can be effective but have limited applicability for counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS). Commercial lasers are underpowered and unsuitable for military environments, while military lasers are too large, heavy, and expensive for tactical applications. In Phase I, we will assess the feasibility of modifying commercial lasers for C-UAS applications. Th ...

In current Air Force ISR operations, human analysts are required to gather, process, and disseminate large amounts of ISR data. Team coordination is relatively simple when an ISR mission is proceeding normally; however, when something goes wrong or an interesting event occurs, individual human team members can become overwhelmed. Our PED-Savant system consists of a suite of algorithms designed to ...

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 ...

The team of Plasmonics Inc and The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) proposes to develop a NMBS optical system for the USAF utilizing metamaterial surfaces or metasurfaces to enable a conformal system solution that possesses low cost, size, weight, and power (c-SWaP) relative to gimbal-mount system architectures. Metamaterials are a class of engineered materials where arrays of ...

Non-Mechanical Beam Steering (NMBS) systems known currently did not rise from the breadboard to a critical application platform so far due to numerous challenges involved including losses, limitations on steering angle and speed, aperture size, temperature sensitivity, cost, etc. We propose to make the transition by developing a NMBS system based on liquid crystal polymer cycloidal diffractive wav ...

The purpose of testing cybersecurity during operational testing is to assess the ability of a system to enable operators to execute critical missions and tasks in the expected operational environment. OT&E performed by AFOTEC offers fact-based, quality data in its test reports to inform decision makers on a range of assessments of effectiveness, suitability, and whether a system is fully, partly, ...