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Development of a reflection control and direction device (RCDD) is proposed. This innovative device will progress the state of the art for propulsion of solar sails used to fly space weather monitoring sensors to sub-LaGrange point orbits for earlier warning times of impending destructive space weather events. A reflection control device (RCD) utilizes polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) mater ...

Drought is responsible for $327.7B in economic loss since 1980 in the United States and typically precedes, cooccurs, or initiates other hazards like wildfires or prolonged periods of intense heat. The compounding or cascading of these hazards routinely threatens the wellbeing and stability of communities. The economic impact from drought can be especially harsh when the drought begins rapidly in ...

"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 ...

Assured Information Security, Inc. (AIS), in collaboration with Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), proposes a second (or sequential) Phase II of the Byte-Taint Resonance Imaging (ByteRI) STTR effort. This iteration of the ByteRI program will expand upon the binary analysis and program behavior analysis concepts identified in the original effort and ...

The C language has traditionally emphasized a program’s runtime performance, achieved by leaving low-level memory management to the programmer. Countless program crashes, hangs, and security vulnerabilities have been attributed to uninformed or malicious use of this freedom. C’s extension C++ provides better programming abstractions but insists on backward compatibility with C and thus suffers ...

Cryogenic wiring is a critical component for quantum computers, superconducting supercomputers, transition-edge sensors, microwave kinetic inductance detectors, and a wide range of other applications. Quantum computing has risen to prominence as a key use for cryogenic wiring, given its profound national security implications and potential for fundamental transformation of industries ranging from ...

Obscurant devices allow warfighters to quickly deploy short-duration aerosol clouds that can break line-of-sight contact with threat forces or prevent detection by adversary sensors. They are critical for operational concealment, enhancing both the safety and performance of U.S. and allied forces. Very recently DARPA started multiple teams on the development of next-generation obscurant systems th ...

Adversaries are rapidly developing, testing, and fielding advanced weapons, like the Hyper Velocity Glide Vehicle (HVGV), that require continual assessment of their impact on the readiness and competence of our US military defenses.  Assessment of performance of defensive systems requires first accurate computer modeling of the advanced threats from intelligence data, and second simulation analys ...

Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...