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To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logisticalsystem requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities,product storage tanks and Jots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermitte ...

Oceanit proposes a Phase I project to develop and validate an adaptive approach to detect and react to external and embedded cybersecurity attacks at the application layer in order to secure and maintain maritime-based information communication operations involving autonomous submerged vehicles.

Our innovative 3D Motion Analysis technology allows for fast and efficient screening of running technique in military personnel that has previously not been available to this scale. We propose providing education and training on our portable 3D Motion Analysis technology to military personnel to explore new ways to utilize this technology. The education and training will focus on ways to identify ...

The seeds of failures of Defense projects can often be traced back to poor quality requirements and a lack of portfolio level coherence between associated projects. Because projects have become so complex, 100% paper-based methods are no longer suitable for requirements management. In June 2018, the DoD released its Digital Engineering Strategy which calls on the services to “move the primar ...

Lumineye provides wall-penetrating radar to help first-responders and soldiers identify people and threats through walls. We propose investigating the utility of our existing through-wall sensor for the Air Force Security Forces. Our device focuses on improving the situational awareness of the AFSF in all law enforcement, emergency response situations, and combat missions. The system will improve ...

ILLUSTRO is a hardware/software package which fuses Nalu’s single photon detection technology into SM’s cost-off-the-shelf (COTS) space qualified computing architectures. ILLUSTRO aims to detect lasing events, instantaneously, with a low SWaP detector architecture that can be easily integrated into large national assets and future small-sat USAF architectures. Such a capability would ...

Managing multi-level risks ranging from the fiscal/personnel resources to fluctuating material/production costs have always been challenges due to the integrated nature of Air Force (AF) with governmental and industrial partners. Establishing a quantitative framework that provides basis for making informed decisions on these pressing issues can greatly impact how Air Force strategically allocate v ...

Petal is a novel bio-solar proposal to generate power using plant photosynthetic proteins combined to nanotubes bonded to a conductive substrate. The use of this architecture should allow for high efficiencies in the capture and harvest of photons and the generation of solar power in a very flexible format. This format will allow for scaling from micro to industrial scales.

Durable and robust large-area ultrathin CNT sheets can be produced from pristine CNT sheets following proprietary CNT purification and densification processes. The resulting CNT sheets are free-standing, flexible, durable, robust, ultrathin (< 5 µm) and lightweight (~6 g per m2). They withstand corrosion and heat and are superior at shielding EMI (effectiveness >= 55 dB in the X band).

Inflatables fill a growing need for rapidly-deployable structures with low stowage volumes. Navatek proposes to develop an inflatable system with a low stowage volume to demonstrate recovery of UUVs through a 21-inch torpedo tube. Using a combination of drop-stitch and traditional inflatable tubes, the UUV COLLAR (Compliant Open-ended Low-volume Launch and Recovery) system will secure a UUV firmly ...