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PEO-Aviation has established a requirement for Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring Systems (IVHMS) that perform passive data collection, diagnostics, and prognostic assessment of the remaining useful life of components and systems. The information and data produced by the IVHMS augment the existing helicopter usage monitoring system (HUMS) which focuses on collecting data related to use of the ro ...

In Phase II Kutta creates the Aviator Mission Tasker Toolkit (AMTT) by leveraging existing Department of Defense (DoD) interoperability profiles, multiple SBIR Phase II technologies, as well as several ongoing unmanned aerial system contracts. Central to the development of the AMTT is the open Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the system, the ease of use provided by the Graphical User Interf ...

Management Sciences"EdgeWare is motivated by the needs of warfighters to understand and negotiate the complex environments in which they are deployed. EdgeWare is an Edge Enabled System (EES) framework that will leverage and enhance the situation awareness (SA) of dismounted warfighters. Using EdgeWare, warfighters will develop, extend and combine ISR applications for their current mission. Situat ...

As a developer of Unmanned Aerial System Ground Control Stations, the U.S. Army"s Bi-Directional Remote Video Transceiver (BDRVT), and several other manned-aircraft technologies, Kutta is keenly aware of human machine interface (HMI) issues inside military cockpits. Based on an extensive Phase I hardware analysis that tested multiple Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) laser-based technologies similar ...

Tactical Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) offer exciting new capabilities for flexible, rapidly deployable peer-to-peer communications, and they require cutting-edge innovations to function. Network management is a particular challenge, because the MANETs that form the"last mile"of next-generation networks face unique constraints: highly dynamic topology, limited bandwidth, unpredictable connectivi ...

This Army Phase II SBIR Program main objective is to continue development of the lower cost MER's production of transparent spinel windows from the corresponding aluminum and magnesium oxides by in-situ conversion to magnesium aluminate (spinel) during hot pressing. The use of precursor oxides instead of commercial spinel powder reduced the powder and processing costs by about 64% in comparis ...

Compression After Impact (CAI) response is widely used for characterizing damage tolerance of aerospace grade composite materials in structural design. Since impact induced damage is not readily visible in many instances, quantification of residual stiffness and strength under different service conditions following impact is critical for ensuring structural safety until the component or the struct ...

The DataSoft Virtual Radio Frequency (RF) Environment (VRE) functional prototype provides a system for immersing a few representative Command, Control, Communications (C3) Systems-under-Test (SUT) in an emulated environment of virtual emitters and realistic environmental RF channel effects to stress them as they would be in the real world. The VRE Channel Emulation impairs signals delivered betwee ...

The objective of this effort is to design and build and test a prototype laser interferometric sensor system for the detection of suicide bombers, burried IEDs and buried land mines.

Recent advances in electrically small antennas have been proposed for a range of communications applications. In general these antennas have wide impedance bandwidths, but low efficiency and power handling capabilities. Recently members of our team at the University of Arizona have developed a class of efficient electrically small antennas (EESAs) that we call the EZ antenna that gets around these ...