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United States Air Force S&T identifies five strategic capabilities: 1) Global Persistent Awareness,  2) Resilient Information Sharing, 3) Rapid, Effective Decision-Making, 4) Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass, and 5) Speed and Reach of Disruption and

Hemp-based clothing are excellent for outdoor active wear, due to high strength, UV-protective qualities, mold resistance, and excellent moisture absorption and desorption. While academic research on hemp-based textiles in the US is increasing, it has naturally also become an area of interest to competing countries. Specifically, China is outperforming the US in hemp fiber technological advancemen ...

K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra-high-power spacecraft capable of delivering over 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconna

Through a previous AFWERX STTR Phase II contract, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. (ART) has developed a high-fidelity simulation-based FLight Certification tool (FLiCert) for design, test, and certification support for Vertical Takeoff and Landing (V

Boston Fusion Corp. and the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at Rutgers University propose Autonomous Swarming Hierarchies (ASH), a platform-agnostic multi-robot system (MRS) design software suite with three components: 1) a coordination module (CASH) that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to automatically generate control policies for the robots comprising the system, 2) a networking ...

In this Phase I effort, Tiami, LLC, aims to develop and demonstrate a hardware proof of concept for a collaborative multi-robot system (MRS) that leverages imitative augmented deep reinforcement learning (IADRL) amongst heterogeneous uncrewed systems (robots) to achieve a common task. Collaboration is based on low-latency machine-to-machine wireless links between robots that use both RF and optica ...

Ad Hoc Swarm Modulation and Adaptation focuses on the ability to enable secure cyber communications, data, and distributed AI processing for any robotic swarm in any condition.  The system incorporates a range of multi-robotic system functionality to allow for coordination, cooperation, and reconfigurable methods of robotic teams, flocks, and swarms.  The system further includes methods for swar ...

Kaney is transitioning MAGTORQUE™ technology for platforms within the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. Kaney’s disruptive MAGTORQUE™ technology provides enhanced actuator precision via the strategic integration of magnetic materials to achieve zero backlash actuation, however this zero-backlash actuation requires additional magnetic materials that impact overall ac ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...

SARA has developed an onboard passive acoustic sensor system, the Passive Acoustic Non-cooperative Collision Avoidance System (PANCAS), that allows manned and unmanned aircraft to operate safely in the same airspace. SARA will integrate this system into a