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Additive manufacturing has delivered enormous advantages in rapidly producing prototype designs for both the industrial and military sectors. However, the true promise of transitioning from prototype to production of essential 3D printed components using high-performance materials has remained untenable. The High Speed Extrusion (HSE) process developed by Essentium flips this longstanding paradigm ...

The ability to rapidly deploy shelter is critical to a lethal and resilient force. New and innovative technologies are needed to advance the capabilities of Air Force civil engineers and RED HORSE units. ICON is developing a technology that could offer a step advance in the ability of expeditionary teams to rapidly deploy shelter and base defenses using 3D printing of concrete structures. Potentia ...

The growing demand for flexible, extended duration UAS has accelerated LR, U-LE, and UAS requirements. The required UAS will host Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation of future airborne communication sensors; Aerial-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Electronic Warfare systems; and BLOS capabilities. This new suite of unmanned aerial sensor with real-time communication capabi ...

The purpose of this effort is to develop a process for creating visualization models and AR/VR software tools for training and work instructions, which include 1) A hardware kit with a 3D scanner/computer with accessories for capturing colors and textures; 2) A Tablet and AR/VR headsets • A software package with tools for creating and decimating models from CAD files, 3D scanners, and photogramm ...

Phoenix merges current state of the art inflatable soft structure technologies with extensive marine experience to demonstrate the Sea Water Inflated – Launch and Recovery System (SWI-LARS) concept as an enabling technology for the use of soft inflatable structures as components to undersea payload launch and recovery (L&R) system used in 21-inch diameter by 25-foot long tube. Based on experienc ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a shockingly common clinical sleep disorder that has systemic and devastating health consequences. OSA affects nearly 30 million Americans, and is also highly prevalent in active duty military personnel with nearly 225,000 cases diagnosed between 2004 and 2016. Current treatment methods for OSA are cumbersome and often discarded by patients. Untreated OSA has been ...

Maritime Classification Aid (MCA) performance will be enhanced by maturing both the 3-D ISAR technology developed under the phase SBIR topic N141-081 and the integration of the enhanced capability with SEMS / Minotaur. Tuning and testing will be focused on transition to the MQ-4C Triton and P-8A Poseidon programs. 3D-ISAR work previously performed on topic N141-018 demonstrated that under favorabl ...

FireSky/CHATTIN (Cyber Hardening and Agility Technology for Tactical IP Networks) provides cyber defense, agility, and real-time threat intelligence for aerial tactical IP networks. FireSky/CHATTIN drops into existing IP based aerial networks and provides cyber defense. This work involves enhancing FireSky/CHATTIN to provide the capabilities required for deployment to Battlefield Airborne Communic ...

IFF transponders in the market currently are too large, heavy and power hungry for today’s smaller UAS. Crypto appliqués for secure Mode-5 operation are also too large and heavy for small UAS. Thus there is a need to minimize the SWaP of the IFF transponder and crypto appliqués to support secure/ encrypted IFF modes on UAS. There is currently no Mode-5 ready IFF transponder available that has ...

ABSTRACT: The current static nature of systems and networks allows attackers to gather intelligence, perform planning, and then execute attacks at will. If instead we remove this underlying static nature and make the network dynamic, many classes of attacks can be prevented by making them too difficult to carry out without detection as well as by reducing their probability and level of success. ...