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Temperature is the critical signal that allows monitoring of a myriad of Earth’s processes. From direct measurements of wildfire and urban heat to more complex relationships with drought, agriculture, aquaculture, and biodiversity, maintaining a steady pulse on Earth’s surface temperature enables us to mitigate for and adapt to the impacts of extreme events and increasingly variable water avai ...

The brevetoxins (PbTx) produced by Karenia brevis cause harmful algal blooms (HAB) or "red tide" in seawater. Currently, the only available ways of detecting PbTx are laboratory tests such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, which are expensive and slow, and require complex instrumentation and multiple processing steps. In previous work Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) demonstrated a compact l ...

ISAM missions to date require multi-year development timelines and high NRE costs, particularly in the selection, procurement, integration, and testing of mission-specific rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) computing hardware and sensing

In-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) technologies are taking the space industry by storm and will undoubtedly shape the future industry. These ISAM services generally focus around providing mobility for different spacecraft improving lif

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has plainly shown the vulnerabilities inherent in the global commercial cellular network, and how those vulnerabilities can be exploited for intelligence or kinetic purposes. Both sides of the conflict have used cell phone loc

The space domain is changing with in-orbit servicing, assembly, and maintenance (ISAM) technologies quickly dominating new spacecraft designs and developments. A future space economy undoubtedly will be based around ISAM services for satellites. As these

The US Space Force (SF) wishes to advance existing dual-purpose interface technology for its modernization priorities in broadly identified segments. A rad-hard SerDes is a “must” technology to have in any electronic system, or a set of systems, in which

Under this FOA (AF231-D0006), the Air Force seeks an improved, safe Minuteman III emergency batteries (EB) that can replace the existing batteries and can be seamlessly integrated at the ICBM facilities with the existing charger and protocols, i.e., meet

The Department of Air Force seeks an improved, more reliable remotely activated (RA) Missile Guidance Set (MGS) battery (SE-437) for Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The technical challenges of reserve, remotely activated batteries are t

The Technical Problem: The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) and the broader Department of Defense (DOD) require operational agility that can only be achieved through the implementation of Software Defined Weapon Systems. In today's modern systems,