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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 ...

KMI’s Asteria module, the critical-function prototype constructed in Phase I, provides gecko adhesion for semi-permanent attachment to nearly any surface in orbit. The Asteria attachment utilizes gecko adhesion in a radial design for deployable permanent

The capacity for Robotic, general purpose space arms to assist in satellite servicing, managing space debris, and disassembling or recycling defunct hardware makes them a critical component for both In-space Servicing and Assembly (ISAM) and Active Debris

The commercial development of Thermal Protection Systems (TPS)- the material that protects spacecraft and hypersonic vehicles from extreme heat-has suffered a decade-long innovation drought after the conclusion of the NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter program in

Servicing spacecraft typically use Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters to provide precision position and attitude control during rendezvous. The plumes from these thrusters can unintentionally impinge on surfaces of the target spacecraft, or they can

To address the U.S. Space Force’s need for grappling of uncontrolled and unprepared objects, Kall Morris Inc (KMI) is further developing the REACCH soft-capture end effector, which provides secure control of RSOs to support the warfighter. The REACCH end

Pepin Associates, Inc. has developed a unique, aligned discontinuous textile reinforcement for composite structures.  This reinforcement architecture is composed of short, overlapped tow segments.  The architecture allows the textile to stretch in its reinforcement direction.  This ability permits rapid fabrication of complex shaped thermal protection system structures from simple low cost sh ...

Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

TDA proposes to develop a multi-physics-based model to simulate and optimize the microwave curing process of thick fiber reinforced composites. The primary objective is to improve the manufacturing speed and cost of high-quality carbon fiber reinforced composites by quickly identifying the right processing parameters for a given part during microwave processing. The model will account for the inte ...