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Accurate and timely weather information for situational awareness is critical to the success of Air Force missions.To date, space-borne sensors for weather forecasting primarily include visible, infrared, and microwave instruments.While visible and infrared sensors have reached a high level of maturity and performance, those operating in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum continu ...

Exploitation of weather and climatological information has historically provided significant (and at times decisive) advantages for Air Force and Department of Defense missions (e.g., WWII, 2003 Iraq, etc.)Current and short-term (0-7 day) and climatological (long-term average) weather information near the geographic locations of missions have often been the basis for these operations.However, a cr ...

Normal aircraft braking is achieved through a process of reverse thrust and a system of hydraulically activated brakes located on the main wheels of the aircraft. These friction based systems offer limited performance benefits including reduced braking capabilities due to brake fade, thermal loading issues, and generally higher operational, maintenance, repair and overhaul costs over the life cycl ...

United States Air Force Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes are based upon repairable parts demand, such as Shop Replaceable Units (SRU) and Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA), and not Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). The rule of repair being 75% of the asset cost drives many assets to be repaired many times over the lifecycle of the item. Specifically, if the estimated repair cost is < 75% of the ...

SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) seeks government support for the development of a multi-disciplinary autonomous munition simulation and optimization model. The proposed software development would determine optimal guided munitions designs for a given mission scenario, maximizing desired metrics of interest, while preserving design robustness. A flexible and adaptable software architecture would ...

This proposal describes 6 technologies that will function synergistically to greatly enhance both production and sustainment operations, by verifying part and tool use and storage, task completion, and FOD prevention.DSC proposes to develop and demonstrate a Digital Process Inspection Verification (DPIV) that displays point of use, step-by-step assembly guidance instructions while verifying and do ...

ThermoPulse is a wireless temperature sensing system that has been demonstrated to accurately and reliably read internal cure/bond temperatures of composites at depths to one-inch through common bagging materials using embedded sensors small enough to not degrade the structural performance of the composite.This project proposes meet the Air Force need for increased reading distance by modifying th ...

For predicting galvanic corrosion finite element analysis (FEA) is a good approach, but far too slow and complex for widespread use. Corrdesa proposes to build on the experience and software that we have developed, to create a modern trade tool based correctly on galvanic corrosion current, not galvanic potential tables.Corrdesa is at the forefront of galvanic corrosion modeling, and has developed ...

Degradation of specialty materials and structures due to damage or normal wear needs early detection to ensure an aircraft is fully mission-ready. The resistive layer or R-card, which is of interest in this topic, is subject to degradation over time through oxidation/aging, fuels or oils exposure, temperature cycling, and even physical damage such as bird-strike. This proposal addresses the need f ...

The current AdHoc emergency notification system for the United States Air Force is a broken and antiquated process that does not fit the needs of todays modern war fighter. At a majority of Air Force Bases the squadron members still hand carry a piece of paper on them at all times called a recall roster, which includes all of the names and information of each squadron member, in order to successfu ...