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This effort will focus on the development and demonstration of new paint replacement applique technology that will operate throughout a broad band range in order to protect DOD shelter structures from Electromagnetic Interference. In addition, our team will investigate the use of novel frequency selective materials to the extent that a lab top prototype and design will be demonstrated for future ...

ABSTRACT:Recent technical demonstrations in hostile fire sensing and classification have highlighted the use of costly cryogenically-cooled electro-optical sensors.While capable, these types of sensors come with a higher initial purchase price as well as high life cycle costs per platform.This activity will implement a broad area hostile fire sensing architecture that uses lower cost discrete sens ...

ABSTRACT:The objective of this proposal is to design an inexpensive hypersonic test article with an associated instrumentation package capable of providing measurements necessary for advancing the understanding of aerothermal behavior in the hypersonic flow regime. Significant advances and accuracy validation within multi-physics computational science and engineering (CSE) toolsets (such as comput ...

ABSTRACT:Kitware and the DIRS Lab at RIT propose an open, extensible software framework and demonstration system with automated change detection, tipping and cueing for exploitation of commercial satellite imagery and video. A small satellite revolution is underway in the venture-funded, commercial market. Our proposed open system will tap into this world, engage key providers, and evolve with the ...

ABSTRACT:The warfighter needs an accurate and reliable source of Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) when GPS is not available. Fortunately, technical advances in navigation sensors and algorithms can reduce dependence on the venerable, yet vulnerable, GPS system. Inertial sensors are becoming increasingly smaller and more accurate. Low cost, powerful embedded computing platforms enable real ti ...

The Air Force rebuilds and tests many aircraft and ground-power generators each year, involving many hours of loaded run-time. Currently, the generator testing uses resistive load banks, meaning that all of the energy is wasted. To improve facility energy efficiency and to have a positive environmental impact, a regenerative ac/dc load bank is proposed to push power from generator testing back to ...

Boundary-layer transition is important in the design of hypersonic vehicles since it significantly affects the aerodynamic drag and heating.The ultimate goal of this SBIR project is to assemble an easy-to-use, accurate, efficient and robust suite of codes to predict boundary-layer transition on hypersonic vehicles in large-scale wind tunnels and flight.The Phase I objectives are to develop algorit ...

The proposed effort aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative software tool combining surrogate modeling and image compression techniques for high-speed hyperspectral image extraction from plume signature databases. Salient aspects of the proposed solution are: (1) image compression and data-driven surrogate modeling operate in concert to capture the effects of various parameters (Mach number, ...

ABSTRACT: The extreme ejection conditions in the fifth-generation fighter F-35 could lead to occupant injury. Rocket sled testing of ejection seat with manikins is limited in simulating human response. The current neck injury models and injury criteria from automotive safety are inadequate for the ejection-related injury. We propose to develop the global-to-local finite element models (FEM) and si ...

Our approach addresses the four Vs of big data and the four pillars, or principles, of ABI, and includes multi-INT data association and fusion, inclusive of objects and activities characterized from FMV streams.To address velocity and veracity associated with of multi-INT data sources we propose to develop a scalable graph-based analytic approach which will perform near real-time analysis of multi ...