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High speed air vehicles operate at material strength performance limits and are at significant risk when subjected to additional localized heating that can result in softening, pitting and burn-through the material and potentially change the vehicle structural profile. These effects degrade aerodynamic performance. The team of CFDRC and UDRI proposed to develop, validate and deliver a comprehensiv ...

To understand how insects and crustaceans sense and process light fields, researchers need a projection system that provides realistic wide field of view (FOV), high-speed imagery from UV to red (320-650nm) that includes polarization control. Insects and crustaceans have vastly different visual acuity and wavelength response from humans. In addition, some can sense polarization. Therefore, commerc ...

The 7V and 10V space chambers at Arnold Air Force Base are deep space environment simulators developed to test high performance interceptors and surveillance sensors in deep space conditions (20K background temperature).The chambers operate over the visible to Long Wave Infrared portions of the spectra.The proposed spectrometer will be designed for integration into either space chamber to assist i ...

In December 2014, the DoD CIO directed that military services manage the migration of their respective applications from dedicated data centers owned and operated by the respective services, to the commercial cloud. This directive included processes and procedures to expedite the process and is a driving force behind the US Air Force (USAF) data center consolidation initiative. Consequently, the U ...

Accurate forecasting of boundary-layer transition is critical for hypersonic vehicle design as transition significantly affects aerodynamic drag and heating. The ultimate goal of this SBIR project is to assemble easy-to-use, accurate, and efficient tools validated via ground-test data and ready to be applied for flight to predict transition on hypersonic vehicles. During phase I, algorithms were d ...

The objective of this program is to mature and verify computational tools to predict electrode erosion by high pressure moving arcs at the High-Enthalpy Arc-Heated Facilities at Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Under an AFOSR Phase II STTR program, CFDRC developed a computational tool for simulations of electrode erosion by high-pressure magnetically moving arcs. The tool uses adaptive Cart ...

Aircraft structure aging and life prediction require accurate prognosis of the dynamic loads, stress spectra and aircraft structure dynamic response leading to fatigue damage. CFDRC proposes to develop ultra-efficient physics-based computational aeroservoelasticity Reduced Order Models (ROM) for real-time prediction and simulation of aircraft dynamic loads, stress spectra and fatigue damage. The p ...

GeneCapture, Inc. is proposing to develop a rapid in vitro diagnostic prototype using our patented molecular-based CAPTURE (ConfirmActive Pathogens Through Unamplified RNA Expression) assay. Based on the results and experience gained in our Phase I STTR contractHDTRA1-16C-0061: Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Differentiation of Viral vs. Bacterial Infections for Point of Care Applications, we p ...

Interfaces on existing military chemical/biological protection garments are not designed to fully eliminate macroscopic and microscopic air gaps at folds, fabric surfaces, or hook-and-loop closures, and thus do not provide a hermetic barrier against exposure. Creare is developing hermetic garment closure systems that seal macroscopic and microscopic gaps at interfaces and closures and provide high ...

The overall goal of Phase II is to develop a powerful tool to correlate large amounts of asynchronous data in near real-time and meet current operational requirements for the Joint Command and Control Community for rapid, accurate Battle Damage Assessment and operational assessment. The team will build upon a successful research project in Phase I in which the team was able to demonstrate that cog ...