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Warfighters operating in forward-deployed and stateside airspace environments lack central situational awareness and decision support capabilities which detract from mission-critical functions including flight safety, air traffic management, integrated ai

CBC’s HIPS solution is a low-profile, omni-directional wind turbine that can be rapidly deployed and safely emplaced anywhere on an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) airfield without risking aircraft collisions, disrupting radar, nor requiring re-deployment t

Scene simulation is an integral component of weapon system research & development, allowing researchers to evaluate new sensor concepts entirely in the digital space as well as drive scene projection during hardware-in-the-loop testing. Unfortunately, research scientists are limited to a small set of available background environments that cover only a few geographic locations.  VSI proposes GEOSI ...

B-52 Digital Blueprint is a fusion of data, people, process, and technology that we believe will result in a data-centric organization. A clear and defined data operation and governance strategy will deliver trusted data sources that advanced analytics and decision making requires, while developing and scaling the talent within the organization. The technology “backbone” utilizes digital servi ...

All organizations in the Air Force have been accumluating massive amounts of digital information over the last 50 years. Often, this data contains crucial enterprise, engineering, programmatic and technical information that is critical to the mission. The technical solution proposed would provide a means to 1) Recognize format of these documents (i.e. Microsoft Office, drawings, lists, and models ...

This project proposes to integrate a functional detect-and-avoid (DAA) system onto an existing long-endurance Group V uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to provide improved operational awareness, air traffic visibility and automatic collision avoidance comman

Estimating pose of missiles in flight from ground-based imagery presents a variety of challenges, such as low-resolution imagery, varying lighting conditions, cluttered background, and poor contrast between target and background. 3D models of the target object can simplify the problem by providing a strong constraint on the space of possible target poses. VSI proposes SkyLock, a robust and efficie ...

We propose an STTR Phase II program to build, test and demonstrate a medium power (100 W) prototype VLF transmitter (3-30 kHz) that has been fully designed and simulated in Phase I. The key advantage of our proposed transmitter is the ability to change frequencies anywhere within the VLF band essentially instantaneously, while also removing the need for a top hat or a loading inductor which ordina ...

COVID 19 reporting and communication identified a significant security vulnerability for the United States Air Force and DoD. In an effort to get timely information out to our airmen commanders were forced to use public social media platforms such as Facebook for daily updates on base status, infection rates, next steps, etc. This information was readily available to anyone in the world following ...

Infrared detectors based on group III-V materials systems are an emergent technology that promises lower cost and improved manufacturability compared to the most sensitive HgCdTe-based photodiodes. However, tunable wavelength group III-V IR detector materials systems, e.g., InAsSbBi, GaAsBi, etc suffer from non-optimal growth conditions, which results in defects. Defects ranging from Bi segregatio ...