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Avilution’s eXtensible Flight System (XFS) is a suite of hardware and software modules that seamlessly integrate avionics components from multiple vendors into a highly agile, cohesive, and resilient unit for use on aerospace vehicles including manned and unmanned aircraft, autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), innovative commercial air-taxi concepts, and training/mission simulators. Av ...

The problem of measuring the flow of fuel in the testing of military aircraft has, so far, been addressed with the use of conventional inline flowmeters, which require lengthy installation/removal times and substantial modification of the fuel lines to allow sensor insertion. Commercial non-invasive flowmeters do not possess the accuracy and robustness required by the U.S. Air Force in its flight ...

The U.S. relies on satellite systems in two complementary orbits for weather observations and data collection for inputs to forecast models: (1) polar-orbiting satellites. and (2) geostationary satellites. Systems in both orbits are critical for mapping and monitoring changes in the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface. These traditional systems can be augmented with less expensive and less c ...

Advances over the last decade in sensors, miniature and flexible electronics, wireless protocols, and related technologies now make it feasible to sensecontinuously and accurately - environmental and operational parameters over the entire surface of an aircraft using a wide network of sensors. A specific example, and the subject of this proposal, is the AFRL-developed Artificial Hair Sensors (AHS) ...

NGA Director Robert Cardillo stated during his 2017 Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Keynote Address, “If we attempted to manually exploit all of the imagery we’ll collect over the next 20 years, we’d need 8 million imagery analysts.� We will need to automate 75% of analysts’ current workload in order to successfully analyze the deluge of imagery. To answer that n ...

Agile RF Systems in partnership with the University of Oklahoma (OU) propose to develop and test an impulse radar (IR) based on a new, low cost, commercially available chipset. This chipset was originally developed and is used in medical radar devices. The radar incorporates an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) array antenna with correlation-sampling electronic scanning in the time-domain, to achieve a scalabl ...

The Air Force requires a system to provide over the horizon tracking to support development and test of Sea Skimming Missiles (SSM). Under this SBIR Phase I effort, Defense Research Associates, Inc.(DRA) will document system requirements, identify and assess sensor technologies capable of performing the missile tracking task, develop a system design to meet the requirements using the most promisin ...

Spectral Energies proposes to design a multisensory diagnostic suite for measurements within elevated-pressure RDEs. This sensor will utilize tunable-laser absorption spectroscopy to measure temperature, pressure and H2O concentrations in the annulus of a rocket-RDE and background-oriented schlieren imaging system for flow density gradient imaging to provide time resolved information about the sho ...

To address the Air Force’s need for detecting and tracking low radar cross section, high-speed, low-altitude weapons over a large area of water, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes to develop the new Sea-Skimming Missile Tracking Radar Array (SEMTA). The SEMTA multi-sensor system is based on a novel architecture that combines a compact low-cost radar design and a novel data processing ...

To address Air Force’s need for a micro-single target tracking ground-to-air radar system for use on an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to significantly increase target tracking coverage over water, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes to develop the new Tracking Radar Array for Single Airborne Target (TRASAT). The TRASAT implements a novel radar architecture that combines a compact rad ...