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Traditional well-defined battle lines and clear means of identification are gone. Today"s operating environment is far more complex, with a dispersed enemy, mixed with civilians and non-combatants, and targets located in areas where there are concerns over collateral damage. Agility allows the total force to adapt rapidly to changing requirements through the use of competent individuals and organi ...

Mayflower Communications Company, Inc. (Mayflower) proposes a novel technology, Scalable Paradigm for Effective Autonomous Routing (SPEAR), to meet the OSD"s objective, namely, to provide technology to enable autonomous routing for information exchange in the small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS) environment, including SUAS, ground nodes, as well as reachback capabilities. SPEAR is a cross-layer op ...

Advanced Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are composed of complex systems and payloads, whose components can be generally classified as flight critical systems, mission critical systems, and auxiliary systems. Flight critical systems are often designed with redundancy, since failure could prove catastrophic. However, the size, weight, and power constraints preclude all systems from being redundant. Mi ...

Based on our commercial high power fiber laser component manufacturing know-how, in this program, we propose to develop several critical improvements in high power combiner fabrication, including glass capillary encapsulation and mode adaptive matching techniques that holds the promise of substantially reduce the system mismatching scattering loss, leading to a new class of high power combiner of ...

ABSTRACT: Electronic Warfare (EW) continues to evolve as a critical operational threat, leading to information loss and corruption. EW adversaries rapidly change their behaviors, which are responsive to the electronic protections (EPs) used by defenders. Furthermore, adversaries employ wartime reserve modes (WARMs) that adapt behaviors to differ extensively from previously established approaches. ...

ABSTRACT: The working environment of pilots and flight engineers is saturated with displays, switches, buttons, and annunciator panels. Productivity could be greatly enhanced through the implementation of a digital glove which permits the Warfighter to operate equipment virtually. IST is proposing to leverage its experience with advanced tracking systems, electronic-textiles, wearable electro ...

ABSTRACT: To make optimal use of current and future investment in simulation and gaming technology, integration of independent applications must be accomplished while minimizing time and resource demands. The proposed research and development will remove barriers to successful data sharing between games and military simulations using an extensible networked gateway approach. With effective tools ...

ABSTRACT: The Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS), developed for 5th generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 aircrafts, is a state-of-the-art helmet which virtually displays avionics and sensor data to the pilot through the helmet visor, thus eliminating the need for these data to be displayed separately in the HUD and flat panels in the cockpit. While the JSF HMDS is the most advanced and ca ...

ABSTRACT: Difficult under typical conditions, airspace management and deconfliction becomes even more difficult in a mixed manned/unmanned environment. As UASs gain capabilities to operate in more complex environmental conditions, the challenges associated with mixed airspace management and deconfliction will become more apparent and the chances of fatal mishaps will increase. Current training f ...

ABSTRACT: Mayflower proposes an autoconfiguring router technology, namely the Mission-Oriented Router with Protocol Heterogeneity for Dynamic Airborne Network (MORPH). MORPH is a comprehensive autoconfiguration technology that allows the airborne network to automatically set itself up to facilitate the full networking functionality. This goal is much broader than the traditional view of autoconfi ...