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Solstar’s Critical Data Relay Spacecraft Operational Status (CritDR-SOS), aka Deke, unit integrates with a spacecraft’s Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding (TT&C) system to provide first-ever bi-directional, continuous, internet-based monitoring of the spa

The Air Force (AF) is facing the challenge of costly and environmentally unsafe Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal methods on its AF bases. Particularly, forward operating bases (FOBs) resort to burning waste in open pits with economic, environmental and potential health impact. Emerging solutions such as Plasma Arc Gasification are expensive, require large scale plants while Pyrolysis technolog ...

Utilizing MCT’s proven customization development process developed over the past 50 years—including refining requirements, engineering designing, prototyping, testing, mass manufacturing, fielding, and sustaining—MCT proposes tailor-made, cost and time efficient mobile operations/maintenance platforms for DOD, DOE, Federal/State/Local/Tribal Government entities, and commercial sector Custom ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has enabled the fabrication of complex part geometries and provided design freedom. However, part quality has been an inhibitor to widespread industry adoption. For Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) process, a focused laser energy

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) is a laminated solar window technology that enables window-integrated sunlight harvesting for electricity generation, in which an portion of light absorbed by the window “tint” is shifted to a specific color by quantum dots (QDs) and directed towards small solar cells attached at the edges of the LSC. Inherently, laminated glass LSC solar windows combine t ...

The IGI Gravity Force Absorber lessens the forces on jumpers (decreasing injuries) and equipment are exposed to. IGI testing has been completed by NATIC and reduced force reduction by 30% improving the survivability of the jumper, the canopy, and the equipment.  

The modern space environment is dynamic and contested, requiring constant surveillance to detect maneuvers and thwart malicious intents. Modern maneuver detection techniques rely on either increasing solution noise or estimating maneuvers by propagating multiple models. Both suffer during long data gaps or in cluttered environments, thereby yielding inconsistent results in proliferated orbital reg ...

Tau Technologies’ proposed approach is based on a single-ended eye-safe pulsed laser Rayleigh guide star source with the employment of an SLM (Spatial Light Modulator) to form a dynamic Hartman-Shack turbulence sensor.  This system results in turbulence s

The smart contact lens application presents several unique challenges to successfully produce functional circuitry on the contact lens surface.  These complex-shaped, flexible substrates limit the use of traditional, mature electronic manufacturing approa

Mixed Reality for Weapons Instruction and Combat-Proficiency Knowledge (MR WICK) is a training system based on King Crow Studios’ Structured Training & Evolved Process (STEP) system that provides DAF personnel with Mixed Reality overlays to conduct weapon