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To fabricate high-quality composite components with acceptable thermal properties and low void volume, autoclaves are typically essential to provide elevated temperature processing cycles and external pressure required for adequate compaction. However, autoclaves represent large capital and energy investments while limiting the size of fabricated parts and production flexibility. Out-of-autoclave ...

The Navys Multi-Static Active Coherent (MAC) system is a multi-static sonar system deployed in the ocean from an aircraft used for wide area search. Surface-drifting buoys are dropped at pre-determined locations and then drift with the currents in somewhat unpredictable ways. Acoustic source buoys are commanded to ping from an aircraft individually or simultaneously using different frequencies. Th ...

The use of imagery is essential to the Navys maritime domain awareness. Ability to retrieve relevant imagery and retain these data sets for exploitation drastically improves the Navys ability to conduct Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance operations. Current imagery management systems do not account for users query and metadata filtering priorities, which can lead to loss of valuable imagery ...

For all fields, especially DOD and mission planners, rapid and accurate intelligence analysis is crucial and an image exploitation system plays an important role in that activity. Currently, however, imagery exploitation systems can quickly fill their available storage, leaving the mission planner or other end users with outdated or missing information. With IDTs proposed Imagery Retention Globall ...

PMA-265 seeks a comprehensive RF propagation modeling tool that exploits three-dimensional antenna patterns, complete platform location and orientation specification, and terrain data to model air-to-ground, air-to-air, and air-to-satellite links over a wide range of RF frequencies. The solicitation authors want a robust tool that completely defines the 3-D RF environment and performs multiple typ ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is becoming more popular for the fabrication of 3D metal products as it offers rapid prototyping and large design freedom. However, part quality and fatigue performance of components fabricated by current AM technology are not comparable to that produced by traditional methods. Post-build processing techniques, such as heat treatment (HT) and Hot Iso-static P ...

G1-RADUAS (Group 1 Reconnaissance And Delivery Unmanned Aircraft System) will utilize a Group 1 state of the art UAV to perform package pickup and delivery and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) for United States Army Special Operations Forces missions. Phase 1 will conduct a feasibility study in order to determine what is in the art of the possible from a system requirements st ...

SynaptiCAD proposes to enhance its current modeling and simulation framework with capability suitable for system of systems (SoS) analysis. The current framework allows for the creation and integration of subsystems to create a system. The proposed framew

US military does not currently have the ability to provide multi-day aerial surveillance, battlefield pattern of life, signal intelligence, and communications, in a responsive and robust manner. Vanillas Ultra-Endurance UAV solution is high-performance

Achieving eternal flight opens the doors to atmospheric satellites; a new breed of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that collect enough solar power during the day to stay aloft at night. Once eternal flight is achieved, that vehicle serves the same role as