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DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ENHANCING THE GROUND C3 SEGMENT SURVIVABILITY OF SPACE SYSTEMS REQUIRES A METHOD FOR MODELING THE SURVIVABILITY OF THE GROUND SEGMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO ALLOW COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF APPROACHES AND SELECTION OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE ONE FOR DEVELOPMENT. SPC HAS DEVELOPED A COMPUTER MODEL OF THE PHYSICAL SURVIVABILITY OF SUCH SYSTEMS. GIVEN RELEVANT ...

The goal of this SBIR is the enhancement of the current state-of-the-art combustion instability analysis tools.  The planned enhancement is focused on capturing the effects of injection element distribution and the inclusion of substantial film cooling and diluent injection.  These characteristics are extremely important in the design of high-pressure oxygen rich staged combustion (ORSC) engines ...

We propose to study how extraction efficiency can be improved by reducing IRLED pixel pitch. Our approach is to scale the size of RIIC pixel and IRLED device from 24-microns down to 12-microns and to lower the IRLED drive voltage from 10 Volts to 5 Volts.

AVID proposes to develop solid-state morphing control surface actuation technology.  By solid-state, we imply that there are no servos, linkages, or moving parts other than the conformal shape change of the aerodynamic surfaces.  Instead, piezoelectric Macro Fiber Composites (MFC) will be used to implement the morphing flight control capability. The morphing wing and control surfaces will be des ...

The forecasted volume of satellite support contact requests for the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) is expected to sharply rise in the near future.  In order to meet this demand, the AFSCN will have to increase its capacity. An innovative new antenna design, the geodesic dome phased array antenna (GDPAA), has the potential to significantly increase the AFSCN capacity when deployed.   ...

Decisive Analytics Corporations (DAC) Air to Ground Identification Translation for Active Target Environments (AGITATE) will allow the U. S. Air Force (USAF) to directly translate target information obtained by Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaiss

Will develop and characterize a real-time SAR imaging and CCD system based on an SRC Hi-BAR architecture. The system will support high data bandwidth for very wide area imaging, and will include mixed architecture compute nodes for optimal performance. BENEFIT: The system will demonstrate an effective wide-area SAR imaging and tracking capability for support of counter-terrorism operations. S ...

AN AUTOMATIC DECISION AID, USEABLE ON A MINI/MICRO-COMPUTER WILL BE DEVELOPED TO ANALYZE CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS/MALFUNCTIONS IN U. S. AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT. THE PROTOTYPE MODEL WILL PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES OF EACH PROBLEM FOR BOTH INDIVIDUAL AIRCRAFT TYPES AND FOR THE AIR FORCE AS A WHOLE. DATA WILL BE EXTRACTED AS A FUNCTION OF DESIRED INPUT AIRCRAFT PARAMETERS, SUCH AS LOADING, MISSION, ETC. ...

ABSTRACT: After a certain amount of service time, many aircraft components need to be cleaned and the coatings on those parts need to be stripped. Prior to the chemical cleaning and stripping processes, those parts are routinely examined by inspectors to locate the part numbers and find their matches on a list. Such a visual inspection process is not only time consuming, but also prone to human er ...

In this proposal, Alphasense, Inc. details the development of a novel microwave NDE sensor for defect inspections in silicon nitride bearing balls. The key innovations of this proposal include the following: a) the use of the spherical bearing ball as a dielectric resonator, thus enabling us to correlate the resonance characteristics of the bearing ball with various defects; b) the measurements in ...