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Ensemble intends to develop a proof-of concept Neutral Density Monitoring and Alert Service. To establish an innovative and accurate space weather analytics service, Ensemble has partnered with CU Boulder's SWx-TREC, who offer leading space weather research-to-operations support. Ensemble will create the foundational architecture for Neutral Density Alerts and Notifications for commercial satellit ...

"Jaia Robotics’ low-cost, micro-sized hybrid uncrewed surface/underwater vehicles called JaiaBotsTM can be deployed from the shore or vessels. The system enables truly affordable multivehicle operations that can be scaled to provide wide area synoptic data collection. In the proposed effort the project team will develop a JaiaBot which is air-deployable from sonobuoy launch tubes to collect atmo ...

A cloud based system for sharing bathymetric survey data collected by FarSounder customers is proposed as a way(1) to improve safety of navigation on our oceans, (2) to collect measurements for the broader scientific and maritime communities and (3) to generally explore and broadly share information about our oceans in fulfillment of ideas proposed in Topic 9.3 “The Changing Ocean”, and in acc ...

Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI), or interference from human-generated sources, continues to plague spaceborne microwave radiometer and sounder instruments. Unmitigated RFI adversely affects the quality and reliability of Earth remote sensing data used for determining water availability, quality, and risk. Proliferation of wireless technologies, Earth-orbiting commercial satellite ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a modern and increasingly popular manufacturing process for metallic components, but it suffers from well-known problems of inconsistent quality of the finished product. The US Navy is interested in addressing this problem by developing a digital twin-based machine control tool for in-situ AM process monitoring and healing. Therefore, sensor fusion monitoring, machin ...

BTech proposes a directional hydrophone for acoustic noise measurements for various host platforms including floats, gliders, and observation buoys. The BTech design is provided in Phase I report including sensing concept and configuration, mechanical packing, power consumption, communication interfaces, sensor (re)calibration methodology, algorithms to extract the information content of the ocean ...

The goal of this topic is to produce low density and high stiffness space mirrors. 3DFlexible has developed a new additive manufacturing process which incorporates fabricating parts via layer-by-layer printing using glass bubble paste (GBP) and sintering the parts into cellular solids. Cellular solids are structures that are composed of a network of solid struts forming the edges and faces of cell ...

Despite a large and growing set of available data sources across many domains, identifying and tracking developing threats in operational domains remains a critical unsolved problem. Extraction of relevant threat information and correlation across multiple modalities is required to take full advantage of the data available. VSI proposes TALON, a system for leveraging natural language descriptions ...

Obtaining an accurate map and assessment of subterranean site conditions is an important component of geotechnical engineering. However, despite recent advances in seismic imaging and tomography this is still very much an open problem and one that can lead the use of large factors of safety and can result in substantial additional project costs and delays as geophysical features may be unexpectedl ...

The proposed system consists of two types of antenna arrays, a low frequency vector sensor for coverage below 300 MHz and a high frequency circularly dispersed array with coverage to 20+ GHz. Both arrays are omni directional  with enhanced response across their entire operating frequency range. Both antenna arrays can handle horizontal, vertical or elliptically polarized waves. The low frequency ...