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Safe Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) operations and airspace management depend on accurate weather data to make critical decisions, plan fleet asset tasking, schedule cargo or people movements, reduce flight uncertainty and meet client expectations. Accurate weather data requires a robust, autonomous and reliable sensing platform capable of detecting multiple weather hazards across urban, suburban a ...

Mesh generation for wall-modeled large eddy simulations (WMLES) based CFD simulations represents a critical area of research as there are significant challenges which must be overcome before this technology can be adopted for widespread use.nbsp; Two critical challenges associated with these scale-resolving simulations is mesh size and mesh quality.nbsp; Mesh size represents a critical challenge a ...

From flagship observatories to small earth-observation satellites, many NASA missions require high performance optical components that are also cost-effective to manufacture and launch. Freeform optical components can reduce a telescope#39;s size and weight (reducing launch costs) but are challenging to test and validate with traditional metrology tools due to their lack of symmetry and large chan ...

Circle Optics proposes a NASA SBIR Phase II project to build, flight test, and deliver, a 7-channel visible DAA visor system. This system would use Sony IMX530 sensors and provide staring type imaging over a plusmn; 112-degree horizontal FOV, with a plusmn; 15-degree vertical FOV, to support a detection range of ~ 3.8 Nm. At the beginning of the Phase II project, Circle Optics would confer with th ...

The ability for the Department of Defense to keep pace with rapidly-expanding content, both internal and external, requires human - machine teaming, utilizing AI-based tools for information aggregation, organization and summarization, so that humans can focus on analysis and decision making.

NASA manages $40B in facility assets with an inventory of more than 5,000 facilities. Over 83% of this infrastructure is beyond its design life, and the agency faces a deferred maintenance backlog of $2.77B. An effective method to address this challenge and achieve digital transformation is through Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods.nbsp;Duri ...

Emrgy, Inc., a pioneer in commercializing hydrokinetic power systems, is teaming with Premier Energy Holdings, Stanford University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a highly innovative solution to low-cost, riverine and tidal-based clean energy power generation. The project will implement “dynamic tuning” of the hydrokinetic turbine system to optimize performance across variabl ...

Wright Electric seeks to develop the next generation of all-electric vehicle through the innovative design of engine systems that use cutting edge innovations in integrated cooling, power electronics and rotor design. The innovative design will create a higher efficiency, higher performance motor without sacrificing safety or the use of existing manufacturing techniques. Phase I of this project wi ...

In the past several years, a number of large-scale prototype electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft have been flight tested by aircraft manufacturers to achieve their commercial product development goals for the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market. Owing to intellectual property and propriety information concerns, however, relatively few large-scale eVTOL aircraft have been flight t ...

Photonectrsquo;s novel technology described in this proposal permanently attaches an optical fiber to a silicon chip using fusion splicing with methods and components that are scalable to high volume manufacturing, tolerant to mechanical and thermal stress, and limit loss. NASA has conveyed their need for coupling approaches and components resulting in low misalignment tolerances, which is directl ...