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In this effort, nGimat will develop the capabilities to produce high-quality optical ceramic nanopowder for DoD applications such as laser and missile weapons and defense systems.Development of such capabilities will require improvements in current man...

ABSTRACT: The goal of the Phase II work is to significantly advance the maturity of the IMPULSE system through the detail design, development, and comprehensive bench testing of its power and propulsion systems. The Phase I conceptual design showed that the system was able to meet the desired performance requirements for a Group 2 SUAS. This work will expand upon this Phase I design, while maintai ...

ABSTRACT: SIFT's Phase 2 Hy-CIRCA proposal builds on progress in Phase 1 to address the challenge of effectively, reliably, and safely tasking cooperating teams of autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPSs). SIFT's Playbook(tm) interface approach provides high-level, goal-based tasking for multi-agent autonomous missions. SIFT's Cooperative Intelligent Real-Time Control Architecture (CIRCA) automa ...

ALAE proposes to develop a reconfigurable test adapter (RTA) that adapts differences between existing automated test systems (ATS) / Automated Test Equipment (ATE) to ensure efficient, cost-effective test program sets (TPS) transportability. Wiring from core versatile depot automated test station (VDATS) instrumentation (oscilloscopes, signal generators, counters, power supplies, etc.) will be rou ...

ABSTRACT: The proposed study will evaluate the essential measurement requirements of the subject systems and the existing workflow peripheral to the test ranges. The study will concentrate on common system requirements and identify candidate system architecture (s) that will satisfy the common requirements with the emphasis on system modernization and sustainability.Special requirements (those tha ...

The objective of this work is to develop a data-driven analytical framework for assessing the current manufacturing and maintenance systems and propose a roadmap for moving towards an RMS system well aligned with maintenance activities customized to the Air Force ALC environment. Because of the importance of identifying the part families in the design of an RMS system, we propose a systematic appr ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force operates a large anechoic chamber for testing electrical systems of large scale aircraft and their antennas. Due to the diversity of testing requirements met by their facility, they have a need for a portable near-field antenna measurement system that can operate in various modes over a large range of frequencies, and be effective in measuring antenna characteristics in the ...

For a vehicle in hypersonic flight, the natural transition of a boundary layer from laminar to turbulent flow depends on multiple factors including the free-stream conditions, the noise level and frequency spectrum of free-stream disturbances, the geometry of the vehicle and the vehicle surface properties.To predict boundary layer transition for flow over a given vehicle, one or more of these fact ...

ABSTRACT: Through the IRIG-106, Chapter 10 standard, the Range Commanders Councils Telemetry Group maintains a standard for digital data acquisition and recording.Compliance validation is critical to maintaining a marketplace of quality products for the end users of the digital acquisition devices.In Phase I, DMAero proposes to determine the feasibility of producing a modular, open system architec ...

ABSTRACT: SIFT proposes to build GEMINI (Gestalt Mixed-Initiative Intelligence), a shared workspace where humans and machines collaboratively assemble intelligence products. In a human-machine team, the collaborators have vastly different-- albeit complementary-- cognitive capabilities. Thus, a central research challenge is to expressively and soundly translate from analyst-centric interfaces (for ...