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Current research initiataives, including DoD IHPTET and HyTech, DOE ATS, and commercial development, are agressively pursuing significant improvements in combustor performance Optimization typically results in operating regimes for which combustionstability is difficult to maintain. This proposed program continues the novel combustion control and optimization concepts with flexible dual-use appl ...

This Phase II will develop a cost- and weight-effective means for achieving an improved low- and mid-frequency acoustic environment in payload fairings for rockets at lift-off. The solution to be developed will consist an active noise control system withan optimum selection of SmartFoam, distributed active vibration absorbers (DAVAs) and acoustic actuators.

HyPerComp, a premiere developer of innovative and highly scalable computational environments for time-domain electromagnetics, proposes to develop, demonstrate and deliver the next generation TEMPUS (Time-Domain EM Parallel Unstructured Simulator)environment to perform cost-effective and routine X-band to 20 GHz computations for full-scale targets with general materials to provide highly accurate ...

The PowerSail is a new paradigm in space systems that offers significant performance and cost improvements for on-orbit power generation. The PowerSail will co-orbit in formation with a satellite, with flexible interconnects and a robotic arm managing thelink between the two structures. The research will produce key technologies that will enable realization of the PowerSail concept. By enabling ...

Toyon Research Corporation proposes to research and develop a small, low-cost anti-jam GPS controlled receive pattern antenna (CRPA) system for jammer threat location and estimation. This system is to be a tri-mode device that can enhance jammer-to-signaltolerance by 25 db for anti-jam GPS operations; it can act as a seeker for threat to GPS signal tracking and acquisition; and it can provide an ...

The key to producing more confident, real-time, on-wing diagnoses resides in the processing of multisensor data. Adding expensive new sensors is not the solution, but data fusion is. Fusion saves cost and weight; no new sensors are required. Fusionreduces false alarm rates; faults to be seen across multiple sensors. Diagnostic performance is improved by allowing detection of unique fault patte ...

A fast, inexpensive and accurate means of producing material mixture maps from remotely sensed imagery to support sensor simulation is the goal of this effort. Doing so requires some level of sub-pixel classification to be performed. In Phase I, SOCexamined four areas of potential improvements in sub-pixel classifiers; 1) hardware acceleration, 2) using spatial/spectral algorithms to improve spe ...

The Air Force needs the ability to land aircraft in all weather conditions, at any given point on the globe, within 24 hours notice. This implies the need for a rapid instrument approach procedure (IAP) development capability, which will depend ondetailed knowledge of terrain and vertical obstructions, such as towers and buildings, near the landing area.This Phase II SBIR effort will produce prot ...

SHAI, in cooperation with our subcontractor, Interface and Control Systems Inc., will develop an operational Mission Planner for Formation-Flying Clusters and demonstrate its potential for use on the TechSat 21 flight experiment. This system will enablepayload scheduling based on detailed orbital and resource constraints for the entire mission. It will maximize the number and quality of observatio ...

Next generation aircraft braking materials need to improve the minimum dynamic friction coefficient and volumetric heat capacity as compared with state-of-the-art carbon/carbon braking materials. These improvements will allow more compact, lighter weightbraking systems to be developed for future aircraft. Additionally greater wear resistance is required to reduce the life cycle costs of the brak ...