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This effort will focus on the development and demonstration of new paint replacement applique technology that will operate throughout a broad band range in order to protect DOD shelter structures from Electromagnetic Interference. In addition, our team will investigate the use of novel frequency selective materials to the extent that a lab top prototype and design will be demonstrated for future ...

In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) or ?living off the land relies on exploiting local resources and in turn reducing burden of transporting supplies. NASA has determined through various studies that ISRU will be critical for both robotic and human exploration of the Solar System. ISRU is also viewed by commercial Space companies as a significant source of revenue; volatiles (mainly water) could b ...

Monolithic freeform telescopes offer the potential to positively address the size, weight and vibration concerns associated with flight telescope systems. We propose to prove feasibility that our optics manufacturing process is capable of producing of a freeform optical telescope system by manufacturing and testing five optical surfaces on five sides of a single high purity optical material. The r ...

The goal of this project is to develop hermetic sealing technologies which can be used for the return of samples from planetary bodies such as Mars, the Moon, Comets and Asteroids, with a primary focus on induction brazing as a means of sealing a Mars Sample Return Orbiting Sample (OS) after it has been recovered by the MSR Orbiter spacecraft. During Phase 1, Honeybee Robotics investigated sever ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is that it will dramatically increase the efficiency of communications networks. Commercially, the ability to dynamically, adaptively and optimally route traffic on data networks will lead to network cost savings ranging from 60% - 70% for network service providers. Critically, the project le ...

ABSTRACT:Kitware and the DIRS Lab at RIT propose an open, extensible software framework and demonstration system with automated change detection, tipping and cueing for exploitation of commercial satellite imagery and video. A small satellite revolution is underway in the venture-funded, commercial market. Our proposed open system will tap into this world, engage key providers, and evolve with the ...

Unmanned automated convoys provide an efficient means for transporting the cargo of many vehicles across the same terrain to reach a desired location. As more vehicles are added, the efficiency of the convoy can increase; however, if each successive vehicle uses the previous vehicle for path following, the convoy accuracy will gradually degrade. In order to improve the path following of successive ...

Military operations have an ever increasing demand for battery power sources in a wide variety of applications, from sensors, communications and powering soldiers, to high-power weapons and vehicle applications. However, state of the art batteries cannot meet the requirements of next generation military equipment. Lead acid batteries, because of their low cost, safety and high level of recyclabili ...

The US Navy is concerned with fretting fatigue as a controlling factor in aircraft component life, such as the dovetail contact of blade/disk assemblies and spline gears in helicopter transmissions. To model fretting fatigue crack nucleation and subsequent fatigue crack growth, the FRANC3D software was modified to include fretting nucleation models. These models, combined with finite element resul ...

Applied Research in Acoustics LLC has formulated and developed and evaluated the feasibility new concepts and algorithms for data-driven clutter-adaptive waveform synthesis and CFAR normalization processing based on physical models of resonant backscattering from heterogeneous aggregations of swim-bladder-bearing fish that will significantly improve active sonar detection capability in littoral wa ...