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The U.S. poultry industry produces more than 45 billion pounds of poultry annually. A majority of this production is from concentrated animal feeding operations. In a modern poultry growing facility, small chicks are raised in several large houses that typically cover over 20,000 ft2. Starting with each grow-out period, fresh wood mulch bedding material is spread over the house floor. Over the co ...

The U.S. poultry industry produces more than 45 billion pounds of poultry annually. A majority of this production is from concentrated animal feeding operations. In a modern poultry growing facility, small chicks are raised in several large “houses” that typically cover over 20,000 ft2. Starting with each grow-out period, fresh wood mulch bedding material is spread over the house floor. Ove ...

Future U.S. Information Systems will be subject to increased attacks. These attacks will come from both internal and external threats. As reflected by the budgets for combating these threats, external cyber threats are assumed to be more likely. By comparison, internal threats to cyber networks from U.S. personnel receive little attention; yet, the consequences can be even more devastating. Al ...

Military network environments will be subject to both internal and external threats for the foreseeable future. Internal threats to cyber networks from U.S. personnel receive little attention in comparison to external threats; yet, the consequences can be even more devastating. The lack of tools for understanding insider threat, analyzing risk mitigation alternatives, and communicating results e ...

This Direct-to-Phase II proposal encompasses the refinement, demonstration, and commercialization of the TRL 7 Acclimate technology suite in relevant environments through final requirements identification, engineering refinement, integrated testing and ev

The USAF Academy (USAFA) is seeking a solution to track and evaluate leadership development activities, providing insight into potential gaps in curricula and activities that align with character, leadership, and comprehensive airman fitness (CAF) competencies. TiER1 Performance has developed the Advance platform that will enable USAFA cadets to visualize and track their leadership development jou ...

Urban/Advanced Air Mobility (UAM/AAM) technology is advancing rapidly with over 300 designs underway.  Primary to the challenges of an electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) is what will happen if the vehicle suffers a failure in flight (especially in VTOL).  Establishment of a level of safety is paramount in the success or failure of the UAM market. Currently, there is not a practical r ...

The current development of an electric power generation system for the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) is based on a low-risk extension of existing three-phase, switched reluctance machine (SRM) technology. This research program proposes to study an alternate two-phase SRM and its associated power-conditioning converter. By the nature of the proposed machine, it has 50% of its stator coils active at ...

ABSTRACT: ADI and ASU propose to develop a novel methodology for blade peak stress prediction from limited strain gage/tip-timing measurements when multiple vibratory modes are present. The current protocol assumes that only one mode is present and only provides upper and lower bound estimates of the blade peak stress when multiple modes are important. It is proposed here to construct the blade m ...

ABSTRACT: A range segment upgrade for Air Force satellite control network (AFSCN) will significantly improve system effectiveness via spectrum sharing and seamless interoperation. However, the upgraded system requires new capabilities such as real-time and accurate RF interference detection and mitigation, array antenna backlobe/sidelobe suppressions, accurate performance degradation prediction, ...