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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 ...

Optical Path Characterization Suite (OPCS) With advanced optical imaging systems aimed at operations in Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) and High Energy Laser (HEL) weapons systems reaching the prototype and test phase of programs there is a gap in the technology available to provide truth data during test. The ability to characterize the atmospheric turbulence and transmission environment durin ...

Rubber is pervasive in our economy, with over 50,000 products requiring natural rubber (NR), including military grade tires. Yet significant global shortfalls are projected. Rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz) produces natural rubber (cis-1,4, -polyisoprene) in root latex vessels (laticifers) almost identical to rubber from the tropical rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). Problem: Cost-effective ...

This project will bring unparalleled capabilities of beam pen lithography (BPL) to the fields of 3D bioprinting, biofabrication, and tissue engineering by enabling the rapid construction of large-volume 3D hydrogel structures with the tunable architecture and mechanical properties at the micron scale. Not only will BPL 3D printing allow the construction of considerably more biologically relevant t ...

Directed energy weapons (DEW) represent a transformative capability in a number of military domains, and an emerging force on the battlefield. A complete understanding of this new threat and corresponding long- and short-term medical effects is required for improved diagnosis and treatment. One approach to fill the knowledge gap is through the use of novel computational modeling techniques. Typica ...

Motorized Smart Target that works with vision-based measurement systems to capture high-accuracy six-dimensional (6D) information (x, y, z, pitch, yaw, roll) in near real-time—supporting calibration, monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of industrial robots and other precision machines.

Xenesis is developing a Global Optical Multilayered Mesh Network System (GOMMNS) in partnership with several companies...both public and private. Over the next 24 months, we will perform an on-orbit flight demonstration designed to prove interoperability on both public and private communications architectures. With partnerships and research agreements in place with Georgia Tech, JPL, NASA and othe ...

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 ...

Using design thinking and a design-based research method, the C5T team will determine if it is feasible to design and develop an application that allows the AF and larger Joint C2 community to rapidly assemble geographically-separated teams for multi-domain operations and resource them with the tools required to conduct effective strategic collaboration in a virtual environment. Design principles ...

The purpose of this effort is to provide an aritificial intelligent drone and gun detection capability to detect, identify, track, and immediately alert with 90% accuracy in real-time across meshed networks using existing camera/EOIR camera infrastructure. The innovative AI-based capabilities detect drones and guns, day or night, based on the concept that a larger operational space allows more rea ...