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ABSTRACT:This effort will provide both a rapid, satellite thermal modeling tool and deployable radiator system specific to Responsive Space needs. The thermal analysis tool will allow users to make rapid decisions and apply appropriate hardware from a specific RS thermal toolbox. The deployable radiators, being a key component of this toolbox, will provide near isothermal radiator surfaces and a h ...

ABSTRACT:A new differential spectroscopic technique is proposed to detect VOCs for environmentalmonitoring and remdiation at Edwards AFB. This new technique has demonstrated promisewith similar materials and can be deployed in a modestly sized unit to providecontinuous monitoring.BENEFIT:This technology is applicable to various types of monitoring application and is anorthogonal signature that com ...

ABSTRACT:Radio-frequency (RF) transmitting devices are found nearly everywhere today, ranging from lower-power cell phones to radar equipment to high-energy weapons systems. Accidental exposure of humans to the RF radiation emanating from these devices can cause harmful thermal effects including tissue damage or death. Modeling these thermal effects across a whole population of humans is difficult ...

ABSTRACT: Data integrity is essential for accurate and deterministic decision making in diverse military and commercial digital systems, and the most common cause of electronic data corruption for many of these systems is electromagnetic interference (EMI). Unexpected and unmitigated EMI, especially from high power systems (HPEMI), can cause deleterious effects ranging from subtly incorrect calcu ...

ABSTRACT:Electronic devices have permeated almost every aspect of modern society. Because of our ever-increasing dependence on the services they provide, we expect future electronic products to have improved reliability and increased performance. Microelectronic devices, an essential component of modern electronic systems, are subject to heat generation as a direct result of electric to thermal co ...

Efficient computational analysis of systems exhibiting complex plasma phenomena, including non-neutral kinetic, fluid behaviors with radiation transport are critical to many DoD missions.Examples of these systems include plasma thrusters, hypersonic vehicles, radiation effects simulations, RF sources, and compact neutron sources. Current simulation tools rely heavily on magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) ...

Computer signature simulation in the visible band faces several unique challenges: availability of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) data, accurate modeling of BRDF in software, and modeling of reflected earth albedo illumination, which has high spatial and temporal variation. Stellar Science and Surface Optics Corporation (SOC) have teamed to provide a hardware and software ...

In Phase II of this study, MicroNet Solutions, Inc (MSI) will perform extended reliability testing on different types of commercially available molding compounds and package styles available in the market to determine if the molding compound composition significantly changes the environmental testing from both a thermo-mechanical and corrosion point of view.The goal will be to provide a matrix of ...

During Phase I, Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) proved feasibility of adapting their current technology into a product capable of improving performance resulting in increased efficiency and extended life cycles of heat pumps. The resultant product is a tool named the Heat Pump Sentient (HP-Sentient). The HP-Sentient will improve performance and reduce maintenance costs through aggressive goal-seek ...

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a widely used experimental technique for studying the composition and chemistry of materials and is one of the driving forces behind the explosive growth of synchrotron light sources and their increase in brightness by many orders of magnitude. However, advances in detector technology have not kept pace with advances in synchrotron brightness, leading to limitation ...