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ABSTRACT: ASTM standards exist currently to characterize various combustion characteristics of flammable chemicals such as flammability limits, flash point, minimum ignition energy, and auto ignition temperature. There are no such well-accepted characterization protocols for hot surface ignition temperature measurements. This is partly due to a large variation in the (i) test setups used in the li ...

ABSTRACT:During a Phase I effort, Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) successfully developed a nonflammable ionic liquid (IL) based electrolyte that can be used as a drop in replacement in commercial cells for Air Force applications. The proposed program will continue to optimize the performance of this electrolyte and demonstrate the ability to construct safer Li-ion pouch and cylindrical cells. During ...

ABSTRACT:The US Air Force trains JTAC and other combat personnel using video immersive simulations. However, it has proven difficult to include night vision training because of the inability of projectors to drastically change light levels. Triton systems working with key suppliers and subject matter experts is developing an innovative screen which can be electro-optically modulated in reflectance ...

ABSTRACT:Busek Co. Inc. proposes to develop a high power, low-mass Hall effect thruster.The baseline thruster is sized at nominally 8kW power level.A specific feature to be implemented includes the use of SmCo permanent magnets.The goal of the effort is to reduce thruster specific mass to 60%.In Phase I Busek evaluated an existing permanent magnet thruster to develop the theoretical and experiment ...

ABSTRACT:Simulations supporting Close Air Support (CAS) training and the Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) training are laborious to configure and expensive to manage with live personnel, which results in training that is limited in scope. For example, current simulations, like the Indirect Fire Forward Observer Trainer (I-FACT), require numerous observer/controllers to participate as White ...

ABSTRACT: Systems & Technology Research together with our teammates, Wright State University and Prof. Robert Nowak of University of Wisconsin proposes to develop novel signal processing algorithms for airborne passive Synthetic Aperture Radar. In phase 2, our team will enhance the fusion algorithms and improve the fidelity of the simulation environment used for performance evaluation developed i ...

ABSTRACT:The guidance and navigation capabilities of the majority of the strategic systems have been and still are largely based on autonomous Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) that process measurements from on-board high-precision Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). Because these systems do not rely on any external aiding sensors, the errors can accumulate over time. In order to improve the accura ...

ABSTRACT:This proposal presents tasks leading to an integrated flight test of a structural health monitoring (SHM) system to monitor damage in the C-5 aircraft material with minimal manual intervention. During Phase I, MDC focused on the design of a sensor hardware for SHM that makes use of a distributed infrastructure. The original Phase II effort focused on the fabrication and testing of a prot ...

ABSTRACT:CEDAR is a software solution implementing a cloud computing capability within an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) such as the MQ-9 Reaper. It aggregates the available processing and storage capacity of onboard computers enabling them to be shared across a variety of mission applications ranging from sensor exploitation (SE) applications to on-board diagnostics and prognostics applications w ...

ABSTRACT:Maintaining the efficacy of military plans is difficult, yet critical. A plan may become irrelevant because the world has diverged from the plans assumptions; if there are changes to many related plans, they may become incoherent, unable to generate well-synchronized and coordinated operations. The Adaptive Planning process partly addresses this problem through cyclical, collaborative pla ...