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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 ...

Made In Space, Inc. (MIS) proposes an Aulë Filament Inspection System (AFIS) to provide filament quality control capability for additive manufacturing (AM). AFIS enables the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to confidently support AM efforts both internal to DLA and throughout its customer base such as the Marine Corp Advanced Manufacturing Operations Cell. To create the product quality line system, ...

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Preliminary definition and analysis of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) requirements in an isolated, manual, and loosely controlled change environment shows significant overlap in effort, resulting in a major increase to cost, schedule, mission classification, subsystem propagation, and trace of system impacts. To assist MDA with movement of BMDS mission objectives to mission requirements, ...

Dominance in hypersonic systems is necessary to counter emerging threats from near-peer states which are aggressively developing their own hypersonic capabilities. An important part of the Air Force’s projected future capabilities is reusable hypersonic aircraft with the ability to operate from conventional fields and accelerate to speeds of Mach 5 or above. These aircraft could perform a v ...

The primary objective of this program is to fully transition a DDM approach for fabricating classes of satellites between 6U cubesats and ESPA. To accomplish this, highly integrated subcomponents with integrated functionality must support thermal, RF, data, power, radiation protection and structural will be mandatory. A fair fraction of a satellite can be made modular, and all features and functio ...

This proposal uses a novel architecture to build a heat exchanger that vehicle heat rejection by 5% while maintaining the same space claim and pressure drop as legacy systems. The novel design results in a substantial decrease in the pressure drop and an increase in thermal performance relative to state-of-the-art configurations. Conventional high volume component production methods will be combin ...

The goal of medical simulation-based training such as high-fidelity manikin simulators, part task trainers, and screen-based virtual patients, is to approximate real-life treatment experiences without risk to live patients. While the use of sensors has ma

Applied Polymer Systems, Inc (APS) has developed a new plasma spray process capable of applying a polymetric resin binder with high filler levels in coating form over various substrates. The process can be robotically controlled and is environmentally friendly. A vacuum collection system captures vapors, and no solvents are used in the process. The filters can be functional and contribute to surfa ...

Air Force Adaptive Targeting Management (AFATM) is an effort to install Modus Operandi’s Adaptive Targeting Management (ATM) on the Air Force’s Systems for High-performance Accelerated Global Intelligence (SHAGI) cloud environment. SHAGI was established to as an Air Force Warfighter Innovation & Development Environment (AF WIDE) which provides cloud services to allow for quicker tran ...