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Conventional Aircraft Emergency Parachute Recovery Systems (AEPRS) have been in use since the 1980s and are credited with saving + 500 lives.  Current designs are dependent on forward speed and will not work efficiently in a VTOL environment (no forward speed).  ASR currently designs and produces mature AEPRS products for the general aviation and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) markets.  ASR also ...

Inkit’s Reach Enablement Platform (REP) will save the Air Force millions of dollars through the streamlined process for spare part sourcing and ordering. Inkit’s software product suite enables end-users (in this instance, maintainers and CE personnel) to place automated digital orders to a network of configurable 3rd-party vendors. Not only does it allow efficiency regarding end-user and vendo ...

The development and deployment of air-breathing hypersonic weapons and other scramjets will be a pillar of DoD offensive strategy over the next ten years. Advances in manufacturability are one of the key technologies that will expedite their availability in the Air Force inventory. Current fabrication methods have long lead times, high part rejection rate, and great expense due to the number of pa ...

The West Virginia University (WVU) Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has created innovative Position/Navigation (PN) software for unmanned aerial and ground systems when operating in challenged environments, such as degraded or denied GPS. This distributed system with agents onboard and on the ground uses an Air Data Vehicle Network (ADVN) that requires Resilient Data Management ...

Enig Associates, Inc. is proposing a compact VLF transmitter system for Air Force applications and for dual use applications for Navy, Army, and commercial market.  The proposed VLF transmitter can be combined with current state-of-the-art, compact, and s

The critical nature of employee health and wellness is well documented in scientific and popular organizational literature. Recently, researchers have developed work wellness models, which lend themselves to better articulation of wellness within work env

In this proposed STTR program, Busek Co. Inc. and the University of Maryland will develop a Helicon plasma thruster system for future flight opportunities. This system will include both a helicon-based plasma accelerator and a power supply. The technolo

Determination of maneuvering target attitude from ground-based imagery is complicated by the marginal resolutions, varying lighting conditions, cluttered backgrounds and poor target contrast. Fortunately, for cooperative tests, the external geometry of the missile can be known a priori and the location of the target missile can generally be localized in the image a priori as well. Based on these, ...

Ground-based cameras acquire image and video data of targets in various stages of flight. Cluttered backgrounds, poor contrast, low resolution and other imaging challenges make it difficult to discern the target and estimate its attitude (pose). In this effort we propose a deep learning based approach to detect and segment targets of interest. The results of segmentation will be visualized as a pi ...

The quantum internet will enable transformative applications with wide-ranging strategic technological impact, including physics-based secure communications, ultraprecise global positioning, high-resolution earth mapping with a satellite-cluster equipped with shared entanglement, and more. Recognizing this tremendous promise, in recent years, global efforts have emerged to pursue the realization o ...