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The main goal of the ALERT Phase II program is the preliminary design of a robust air vehicle that can meet all the performance goals while using a structural design with a high content of dielectric skins. This includes determining the flight envelope required to complete the desired customer missions, and then sizing the flight surfaces and propulsion system for optimum performance. Since the AL ...

The objective of the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Data Access and Management (ADAM) effort is to develop, refine, and ultimately deploy a risk management strategy and technical solution for automated ATE data access, collection, and management that meets information assurance (IA) and cybersecurity needsa key part of which involves avoiding the use of wireless communication technologies or any c ...

Over the past two decades significant progress has been made on the development of mission capable micro air vehicles (MAV) and small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) but the full potential of implementing multifunctional morphing wings using active materials has not been realized.A need exists to develop a MAV wing that can autonomously adapt to flight conditions allowing the vehicle to aggressiv ...

Max-IR Labs LLC, in collaboration with UT Dallas, successfully demonstrated construction and operation of a prototype Infrared Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (IR-SNOM) instrument for high-spatial-resolution thermal mapping of small heat sources, in particular Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) facets, during Phase I.Preliminary data demonstrated feasibility of implementation of this instrument an ...

Green Revolution Cooling, an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of immersion cooling systems for high-efficiency, high-performance data centers, aims to produce a commercially viable, turnkey containerized data center cooling solution for cost-effective and expedited data center build. The continuation of work focuses on maturing the technology past the first two prototypes.

Lynntech and Purdue University aims to rationally design effective retrofits for photovoltaic (PV) installations located in the Pacific Flyway migratory corridor, based on what birds actually perceive.Vision in birds is entirely unlike our own, and what might seem very similar to us can be different to a bird species.Variation amongst different birds is considerable--what is visible or obvious to ...

Time-varying electric fields can be used to manipulate the behavior of biological cells. Common applications include electroporation for delivery of pharmaceutical compounds or genetic material, inhibition of cell migration and adhesion, and cell apoptosis. Recently, the application of nanosecond pulsed electric fields has been observed to produce interesting biological effects that are useful for ...

TRI Austin will develop an automated approach to translate full ultrasonic inspection datasets for detection and identification of disbonds and other defects within composite aerospace structures.In-service inspection data from Global Hawk structures will be used in an automated process for converting ultrasonic information into defect descriptions suitable for defect growth predictions and modeli ...

The Air Force desires a new methodology for automatically generating FRMs. This effort will continue the development of a physics-based software for rapidly producing FRMs that make physical sense and can be extended beyond their basis datasets. The development will transform the Phase I prototype software into a fully-automatic FRM generator capable of handling complex multi-mode problems. The pr ...

ENGIN-ICs objective in Phase II is to complete the design and layout of a < 2-dB noise figure, > 20-dB gain, and > 25-dBm OIP3 dual Ka-/Q-band LNA, requiring < 0.5 W DC power, and handling RF power levels to 1 W (requiring a GaAs Schottky diode limiter for GaAs HEMT processes, which ENGIN-IC will design, fabricate, and test), using two short gate length HEMT processes which can be space qualified. ...