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SOLAR FLARE PREDICTION IS A CRITICAL NEED FOR AIR FORCE SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS. THE KEY TO FLARE PREDICTION IS IN THE HIGHLY STRUCTURED MAGNETIC FIELDS PRECEDING FLARE ERUPTION. THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT WILL ACHIEVE HIGH-SPATIAL-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF THESE FIELDS BY OPERATION FROM A STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON, ABOVE THE DISTORTING EFFECTS OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED SBIR PHA ...

"To support autonomous scenarios, future constellations of satellites must manage multiple sources of information carrying various levels of uncertainty. Multi-mode payloads will be autonomously configured based on fusion of evidences provided byindependent cooperative agents. This will require an advanced architecture to loosely couple distributed knowledge sources. The Adaptive Belief Engine wi ...

Data Fusion has emerged as a critical technology to be developed and deployed for military projects encompassing Space Situational Awareness, and Offensive/Defensive Counterspace to increase the warfighter's ability to identify, characterize, geo-locate and assess attacks. Fusion has also been identified as a major risk to be mitigated for the NASA/Air Force Joint Space Launch Initiative (SLI) Re ...

We propose to develop an innovative, compact ultrafast high brightness laser source, broadly tunable in the infrared for vibrationally-resolved infrared microscopy and other applications. By passive Kerr lens mode-locking of a novel diode-pumped tunable Cr:LiSAF laser, 100fs pulses will be generated at 100 MHZ repetition rate with an average power of 1W. An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pump ...

Current airborne sensors (e.g., EO/IR/Radar/EW) produce very large volumes of data, but the airborne battle managers aboard BMC2 platforms do not have the appropriate Big Data analytics to process the massive data. This represents a missed opportunity to

Current airborne sensors produce very large volumes of data, but the airborne battle managers aboard BMC2 platforms do not have the appropriate analytics to process this massive data. Lack of appropriate analytics represents a missed opportunity to extract additional and timely actionable intelligence, especially considering the fact that, in most cases, data bandwidth to the command center is lim ...

Grinding is used to satisfy figure and finish requirements for optics, removing successive layers of material to ensure alleviation of any damage created from the prior operation. Consequently, fabrication times are slow and expensive. The optics manufacturing industry currently lacks physics-based models needed to understand the impact of process and material variables on final part quality and ...

What if you had the power of a fixed wing UAS + the ease and portability of quadcopter– all from a rucksack, yet could function as a an accelerated target engagement system with a modular payload including a droppable integration for increased flexibility

3Degrees’ TraceAM software is a streamlined platform designed to effectively organize, analyze, and deploy critical technical data packages related to Additive Manufactured parts. It is a secure and customizable interface ideal for use in munitions develo

iNovex offers a practical approach to accelerating aerospace manufacturing through digital traceability and integration along the supply chain. Our approach improves manufacturing quality and speed as well as sustainment operations of weapon systems while reducing cost and supply chain risk and improving safety. We implement a Semantic Digital Thread to address challenges related to desig ...