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The Digital Greenhouse concept is to work with users from operational organizations in off-site commercial locations, positioned near Air Force logistics centers, to quickly develop “user storiesâ€Â for use in rapid development of working prototypes. These prototypes will be tested and validated by these users for use in application modernization projects capable of providing advanced ...

Exploitation of weather and climatological information has historically provided significant (and at times decisive) advantages for Air Force and Department of Defense missions (e.g., WWII, 2003 Iraq, etc.) Current and short-term (0-7 day) and climatological (long-term average) weather information near the geographic locations of missions have often been the basis for these operations. However, a ...

Countering Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) is an ever-increasing challenge due to the variety of threat UAS airframes, materials, propulsion types, and control systems. Further, the control systems in particular are continually evolving which complicates detection, identification, and tracking. A robust and reliable means of completing these steps in the kill chain is required. Even significant te ...

Due to the increasingly negative impact on DoD budgets and the critical need for future air platforms, the USAF has issued a mandate to significantly reduce the development and escalating procurement costs of Carbon Fiber Composites intensive air platforms. Traditional aerospace autoclave manufacturing processes, utilized to produce carbon fiber composite parts are limited to very slow cycle effic ...

With the increasing use of infusion methods for composite manufacturing, the need to improve part geometric and defect quality while reducing cycle times, cost, and risk is paramount. The use of simulation tools has become a key component in reducing the need for inefficient trial and error experimentation. Historically, flow simulations have been decoupled from cure and residual stress/deformatio ...

We propose to build an autonomous multi-UAV/UGV network that can be controlled entirely from broad, customizable operational commands from wearable devices. The UAS requires no direct control inputs (directions, throttle, etc), and does not necessarily require direct commands from an operator to any single vehicle. We will develop a command based human-UAS interfacing protocol that can be used wit ...

Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc., presents a program plan (focused on the Phase 1 effort) to address the penultimate goal of “coloring the good guys blue and the bad guys red� using multi-mode aerial imagery of ground targets in the visible and thermal IR coupled with the most advanced Continuous Machine Learning (CML) approaches, techniques, and architectures. CML has many computati ...

The project objective is to develop a software framework for (remote) medical monitoring, diagnostics, and combat casualty care. The proposed framework supports medical wearable Bluetooth sensors, mobile apps, and a centralized medical health server that runs on the (military) cloud. The health server is updated in real time and each wounded warfighter can be monitored from treatment facilities an ...

TriboTEX is proposing a feasibility study of Helicopter Gearbox Loss-of-Lubricant performance enhancement with proprietary anisotropic nanoparticles produced in-house at commercial scale. TriboTEX nanoparticles are flat with two functionally different sides (sticky/slippery) providing smart lubricous coating generated in-situ with friction. Founders' nanotechnology research was funded by NSF SBIR ...

The current AdHoc emergency notification system for the United States Air Force is a broken and antiquated process that does not fit the needs of today’s modern war fighter. At a majority of Air Force Bases the squadron members still hand carry a piece of paper on them at all times called a recall roster, which includes all of the names and information of each squadron member, in order to s ...