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To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

Group 2-3 UAS engines have low mean time between overhauls (MTBOs), often with as little as 200-400 hours before maintenance must be conducted.This leads to significant maintenance cost and logistics tail for deployed operations.Two-stroke piston and rotary engines for Group 2-3 platforms have common maintenance drivers such as carbon fouling, and wear of cylinders, housings and bearings.Phase I r ...

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 logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

To address the performance degradation of fixed scheduling policies used by TDMA-based tactical networks in contested environments, Bluecom Systems proposes to develop a cognitive anti-jamming and communications scheduling framework. Proposed cognitive protocols can be implemented in hardware that can be integrated in to TDMA-based tactical software-defined radios (SDRs), converting them to autono ...

In a current SBIR contract, MSI has developed an intrinsically passive modular avionic module with a real time operating system and data-driven Cognitive Bayesian models that provides situational awareness. In the Phase III transition contract, the focus is a software interface for the Full Authority Digital Engine Controllers (FADEC) deployed in the MQ-9, RQ-4, C-130J, and V-22 aircraft. The EPIC ...

The objective of this project is to develop a modular, open-architecture, physics-based ground vehicle mobility prediction software tool for world-wide terrains that are encountered in military applications including on-road and off-road soft soil terrains. The tool will integrate three modules: (1) Physics-Based Vehicle-Terrain Modeling tool; (2) Geographic Information System (GIS); and (3) Stoch ...

Large populations of interacting agents or swarms, are common throughout nature and society and, increasingly, in mechanical and electronic domains. Although the individual agents in such systems are governed by local rules, their collective behavior is often well-orchestrated to solve complex tasks, whether fighting disease, navigating through space to find resources, or to manage social interact ...

The goal of this project is the formulation a rigid, insulating, low-density wood composite, with physical and thermal properties comparable to fossil fuel derived foams. _x000D_ _x000D_ To achieve energy conservation standards mandated by certification agencies such as Passive House and LEED, high performance buildings require multiple shells of insulation – an inner shell that contains electri ...

Small satellites have proven capable and cost effective, and innovative payloads and technologies will expand the mission space that CubeSats can support. ATA proposes to build a CubeSat-sized laser communications prototype payload, adapting high photon efficiency optical communications techniques to achieve data transfer rates up to 100 mega-bits per second (Mbps) with the small apertures require ...

Goodman Technologies (GT) and University of Hawaii (a Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center and Minority Serving Institution) in partnership with Robocasting Enterprises (Small Business spin-off from Sandia National Laboratories technology transfer program), will meet all Army objectives (and more) by 3D printing B4C, B6O, B4C-SiC hybrid and other ceramic nanocomposite armor ...