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Effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Command, Control and Communication have long been a high priority need for the Navy and DoD. Communication is essential for enabling UAV applications. A major challenge in a rapidly growing UAV secure command, control, and communications area is ensuring the transmission of critical information in Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) bandwidth-limited environments ...

ABSTRACT:Cognitive skills/capabilities are important for the military personnel to fulfill tasks and to ensure mission efficiency and success. In the past decade, there are abundant researches suggesting that non-invasive brain stimulation via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) holds great promise to enhance a soldier's cognitive performances. Although models to predict the tDCS curren ...

A method of utilizing 3D printed molds to produce low cost metal parts for obsolescence, engineering development prototypes, and low rate production is proposed for development and evaluation.This method is capable of producing parts of similar quality to mass production techniques such as green sand and lost wax casting at a fraction of the setup costs for those methods.

In response to Defense Logistics Agencys SBIR for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Sentient proposes to develop a life-cycle cost optimization tool based on its DigitalClone-ComponentTM (DCC) modeling technology.This tool will enable users to better understand the tradeoffs between manufacturing cost and performance/durability of the resultant components. This is particularly attractive for lo ...

Due to their high specific strength and light weight properties, polymer matrix composites (PMCs) are increasingly used in a wide variety of military and civilian aircrafts. The mechanical strength of PMCs can be dramatically compromised when such materials are exposed to various heat sources during operation and maintenance. It has been shown that PMCs can lose up to 80% of their mechanical stren ...

ABSTRACT:CEDAR is a software solution implementing a cloud computing capability within an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) such as the MQ-9 Reaper. It aggregates the available processing and storage capacity of onboard computers enabling them to be shared across a variety of mission applications ranging from sensor exploitation (SE) applications to on-board diagnostics and prognostics applications w ...

ABSTRACT: New Wave Design & Verification proposes to design and simulate an IEEE-1394b System-on-a-Chip core that provides aircraft network administrators the ability to diagnose issues, provide statistics, and troubleshoot nodes efficiently. Implementation of the IEEE-1394 controller in programmable logic will also provide the opportunity to fix/modify several aspects of the current protocol imp ...

ABSTRACT: Under the proposed effort, PSI will leverage a novel pmmW imaging technology developed under a prior Navy program to realize the low size, weight, and power sensors required for UAV implementation. This technology is based on an optical upconverted distributed aperture technology that can make use of the full aperture of the aircraft thereby maximizing achievable resolution. This sensor ...

Electronically steered antenna arrays capable of forming multiple beams enable tracking and concurrent sensing of multiple, spatially diverse targets, thus providing significant advantage over dish antennas that have fixed, narrow beam patterns. To address the needs of the DoD, such antenna arrays must demonstrate high gain, low noise figure, and ultra-wideband operation. We have identified the an ...

ABSTRACT:To enable mission assured operations of aerial IP networks in a hostile cyber threat environment, the Air Force has identified the need for cyber defense technologies which will thwart such cyber attacks on these networks preemptively, i.e., before they are launched by the adversary. To address this need, Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) proposes Cyber Hardening and Agility Techn ...