Award Data

There exists a wide-range need in both industry and government for quantitative residual stress measurements. Generation 2 Materials Technology LLC (G2MT) will collaborate with partners from industry and government to calibrate and commercialize the eStress system to assess residual stress from mechanical damage and re-rounding. The industrial members, consortiums, and government laboratories who ...

Individual differences in vulnerability to sleep loss and fatigue from extended work hours and night work are a substantial problem in transportation policy making, work schedule development, fatigue risk management strategies, and prediction of performance impairment in real-world operations (Van Dongen et al. 2003; Mollicone et al. 2010). Our group was the first to document the considerable magn ...

ABSTRACT: As the Air Force moves toward the deployment of CubeSats and the need for responsive launches, operational Plug-and-Play instruments to monitor the space environment become necessary. The goal of Phase-II is to develop and deliver a prototype for a new UV remote sensing instrument for ionospheric measurements that are relevant to Space Situational Awareness, and the IORD-II requirements ...

ABSTRACT: The challenges in the operations of small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) and micro air vehicles (MAVs) in terms of required agility and benign flying qualities require a superior understanding of their basic flight mechanics and vehicle dynamics. Flight test data for MAVs are sparse, and wind tunnel unsteady aerodynamic data of MAVs with flexible wing structures are non-existent. Alth ...

ABSTRACT: SHARP Phase II Option provides a system that creates optimized HVM schedules for the repair of the aircraft fleet at WR/ALC. The technology solves planning problems similar to those encountered in work scope optimization, strategic logistics and prognostic logistics, which are all needs in HVM. SHARP produced schedules are constantly improved by genetic algorithms which are informed by ...

ABSTRACT: Dielectric properties, and therefore radar transmission abilities, of radomes degrade with weathering, but the mechanisms causing degradation are not well understood. TRI proposes to use its three decade background in accelerated life testing; failure analysis; and composites to develop a thorough understanding of how radome materials degrade with age and usage. TRIs polymers group wi ...

ABSTRACT: Current cyber network defense strategies often focus on treating all tasks or activities that support military missions as if they were of equal importance, thus requiring the same level of protection to mitigate the effects of potential cyber attacks. Clearly, this is not the case. Mission-supporting activities have different impacts on mission objectives and therefore must be prioriti ...

ABSTRACT: This proposal focuses on the development of a novel video-rate snapshot hyperspectral sensor (VSHS) that can provide large format datacubes at 50 frames per second with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of over 200 in every wavelength band. Its measurement principle is based on Image Mapping Spectrometry (IMS), a technique recently developed at Rice University and exclusively licensed to Re ...

ABSTRACT: TRS Technologies, Inc. proposes to develop nonlinear dielectric ceramic capacitors for discharge pulse power application and reduce the production cost of cofired multilayer capacitors. In the phase I program TRS developed a new antiferroelectric composition showing energy density>4J/cc at a field as low as 200kV/cm and demonstrated that high breakdown strength can be achieved from ant ...

ABSTRACT: The proposed program will provide three important products to the space electronics community: [A] An extremely rad-hard (estimated>3Mrad) high isolation and processor-free converter that can provide an (unregulated) intermediary voltage that can supply 6V/20V at 25W/40W respectively. [B] An extremely rad hard high isolation and processor-free converter that can provide an unregulated ...