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"The Air Force requires a method of tracking released aircraft stores during operational testing, at altitudes from ground level to 100,000 feet, and at ranges up to 100 miles. This Phase II program will develop an Airborne Tracker for a cost effective andhighly practical software controlled radio and Global Positioning System (GPS) with an IMU based tracking system to meet this mission. It shall ...

"This Phase II SBIR program addresses the need to extend the life of U.S. Air Force aircraft, well beyond their original design life, under increasingly strict budget conditions. Specifically, a Faradaic Prediction Tool will be developed, to predict theperformance of a corrosion protection system for aging aircraft components, and the onset and propagation of corrosion resulting from coating degra ...

"MRLets Technologies, Inc. and Raytheon will jointly develop acomputation and memory efficient GMTI/HRR tracking system with a strong capability ofhandling out-of-sequence (OOS) data.Although the OOS phenomenon is common in multiplatform tracking and ID applications,a systematical and effective solution does not exist yet.This SBIRPhase II research aims at maturing the promising algorithms develop ...

In current Air Force operations, mission planning data is generated using a ground-based system, and is then hand carried to the aircraft shortly before takeoff. To allow more time for the mission planning operations, the Air Force would like to be ableto use wireless data transmission to transfer this data. SFC proposes to develop a Remote Consolidated Data Loader (RCDL) to meet this need. The ...

EMPAR delivers an enhanced warfighter capability by adding an interactive three-dimensional (3-D) visualization capability to SOF's existing mission planning tools operating on a portable computer. EMPAR provides the connectivity required to downloadupdated information concerning threats, weather, and terrain should the need arise. Additionally, EMPAR provides aircrews the ability to connect to ...

"The aim of our Phase II activity is to incorporate the Cohesive Volumetric Plate and Shell (Finite) Elements into LS-DYNA3D, thus enhancing its capabilities in modeling HRAM loading and damage in composite structures. In Phase I, we reported oninterlaminar failure criteria and modes, based on fracture mechanics. A damage-dependent bilinear cohesive element is used to capture the crack initiatio ...

This Phase II SBIR project is directed towards developing TYCOR(tm) fiber reinforced foam composite materials and sandwich panels for low cost design and manufacturing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) airframe fuselage and other components.TYCOR composite material has been developed and patented by WebCore Technologies, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio. TYCOR materials are ideally suited for structural applic ...

SYTRONICS proposes the Air- and Bone-Conducted Noise ReductionSystem (ABCNRS) which combines both active and passive noisereduction to reduce the hearing threat from both sources of noisein the cochlea. Although the methods of measuring and cancelingairborne noise are well understood, SYTRONICS hopes to extendthis approach to air-cancellation of bone-conducted noise. Thiswill involve developing ...

"Satellite post-pass operations cannot be done in a narrow context or assuming a static situation. Especially for the forthcoming Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS)-Low low earth orbit constellation, post-pass operations involve myriad data flows,resource dependencies, time constraints, situational changes, and requests for constellation services. The SBIRS-Low crew is in need of computer assi ...

Reconfigurable Computing (RC) is a technology in which the behavior of a processing system is changed by altering the hardware, rather than the software. This is achieved though the use of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). RC is useful when a highdegree of both performance and flexibility is needed, and especially when size, weight, or power constraints preclude use of dedicated components ...