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The Air Force has a need for low-cost, short takeoff and landing vehicles to provide recovery and transport support in contested areas while minimizing the required number of operational personnel. An autonomous vehicle capable of 100 miles operational radius, cruise speed greater than 100 kts at 4000 ft, and takeoff/landing zone of 50 ft x 50 ft is desired to perform combat search and rescue, as ...

In recent years, Department of Defense (DoD) readiness has been negatively impacted due to increased reports of unidentified physiological events (UPE’s) during and after fixed-wing flight missions and training. One potential cause of such UPE’s is chemical contamination in pilot breathing air. A gap remains in the development of a standardized and manufacturable investigative device ...

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) personnel often they have no way to efficiently collect, share or search for information about recent engagements or projects for appropriate stakeholders within the Command. The teams within AFSOC currently relay project and engagement reports through a variety of disparate mediums. Additionally, senior leaders within AFSOC struggle to keep abreast of ...

Asset location and tracking across a military base is problematic at best. Tracking or real-time location of vehicles, equipment, assets or other trackable items is highly problematic in hangers, inside buildings or underground. To track these assets requires a costly and burdensome infrastructure upgrade to implement RFID or RF triangulation systems and both systems have limited capability. Ubihe ...

There is hardly a system today that does not rely on GPS in some way. However, when GPS was first designed decades ago, it was not architected to meet the current requirements. Signals compromised by scattering, jamming, and spoofing. Current applications require much greater accuracy/reliability/security in commercial applications. In military application it is mission critical to have a trusted, ...

Affordable and low-risk leading edge solutions are preferred for expendable hypersonic vehicles with military utility. GoHypersonic Inc. (GHI) proposes to build upon their existing vehicle designs by tailoring the internal geometry of conformal and planar leading edges to control conduction into the airframe and reduce thermal deformation of the leading edge hardware. This will improve the current ...

Today's military has cutting edge missile and space technology to enable the warfighter to perform their mission. However, the approach to training the space operator has not kept pace with the innovation of the systems they operate. Training is often expensive, infrequent, mundane, ineffective and is typically not accessible remotely. nou Systems proposes to take advantage of recent advances in v ...

RADAR (and similar direct or observational meteorological measuring equipment) has limitations (inability to measure low vis conditions, line-of-site, limited vertical (z-axis), expensive/heavy equipment is required, etc.). To solve these limitations, a Purdue University team (launched via a SBC called FlightProfiler) has developed a technology that delivers a computer generated X-Y-Z environmenta ...

High-speed and reliable tactical communications have empowered the Air Force with overwhelming information superiority, and control of the battlespace. However, the effectiveness of such systems has been impacted by the increasingly congested and contested spectral environment, compounded by the reliance on half-duplex systems. The latter rely on time- or frequency-division to separate transmit an ...

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 ...