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The Counter Unmanned Rapid Engagement System (CURES) is a modular cost effective system developed to combat the commercially available Group 1 UAV epidemic. Demand for a system to detect, identify and engage this threat has opened up a large military and commercial area. The objective of this program is to rapidly create, evaluate through test, and insert technology for countering the most prolife ...

The ROBOpilot Unmanned Aircraft Conversion System is a modular system that rapidly converts existing manned aircraft into an autonomous unmanned aircraft without making permanent modifications to the host aircraft. ROBOpilot autonomously pilots an aircraft using the instruments and controls available to a human pilot. An onboard flight computer with autopilot will gather aircraft state data and ma ...

At present, there is no cross domain solution that is certified to filter streaming video data.The proposed effort is to develop a Cross Domain Full Motion Video (CD FMV) solution, which will be based on Tridents certified Voice & Video Cross Domain Solution (V2 CDS).The desired end state for the CD FMV technology is a fundamentally new product that leverages Tridents Assured Pipeline and XML filt ...

This STTR Phase II project will develop a hierarchical visual processing system and attention-based mechanisms based on novel 3D convolutional neural networks to enable robust and efficient detection and classification of objects in 3D LIDAR imagery. The Phase II will build upon the enabling technologies developed in Phase I which, using deep learning methods, model the ventral pathway of the visu ...

The Phase II SAI prototype will be developed using COTS GaN switches and CMOS drivers. During Phase II Alphacore will design and fabricate a rad-hard CMOS driver ASIC to provide electrical and on-chip algorithmic control of the GaN switches. The SAI and its components will be tested and measured under varying environmental conditions, including across temperature and radiation extremes. The GaN de ...

Echo Ridge proposes to deliver quantity three first-generation augmented positioning system (APS) devices to AFRL at the end of the 12-month sequential Phase II effort.The units will be capable of producing accurate PNT estimates in GPS-denied environments in a stand-alone operational mode.The units will include improvements to both the PNT estimation methods and the hardware platform developed an ...

This Air Force Phase I STTR program would develop self-calibrating, conformal nanomembrane (NM) based pressure sensors for embedded sensing applications, using SOI (Silicon on Insulator) NM techniques in combination with our pioneering nanocomposite materials.Such low-modulus, conformal nanomembrane sensor skins with integrated self-calibration, interconnect elements and electronic devices that ca ...

Alphacore will develop a compact tunable surface mount component (capacitor bank) with tunable component range of more than 10:1. It will provide a tuning mechanism for a wide range of filter topologies with user selectable range of 10 bits. A capacitance selection from 100fF to 100pF using high density CMIM capacitors over small foot print for a variety of bands used in wide applications includin ...

Multiple innovative experimental X-ray techniques will be developed and demonstrated to characterize damage mechanisms/processes in advanced concretes under both quasi-static and dynamic loading.These techniques will provide tomographic information of the 3D damage morphology, as well as dynamic fracture information with high temporal resolution. The techniques can be extended to either unconfined ...

Missiles experience a wide range of thermal and mechanical environments due to the large variety of flight profiles.Since it is often the aerodynamic leading edge, the missile radome undergoes significant thermal and mechanical loading. The radome must survive the dynamic pressure loading, thermal shock and environmental erosion from airborne particulates (rain / sand) while performing as an elect ...