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This Phase II effort continues development of Volume Independent Analytics for Discovery of Unseen Correlations via Tensors (VIADUCT). VIADUCT leverages recent advances in tensor decompositions as a form of unsupervised discovery and the proliferation of open source Big Data tools to address the lack of advanced analytics available to Air Force Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) analysts. This effo ...

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is designed to replace UHF SATCOM with enhanced capacity and performance, modern crypto and modern protocols. The MUOS waveform is being ported to a number of software defined radios (SDRs) that will soon be fielded and capable of utilizing the MUOS network of geosynchronous satellites and ground transport. Once these radios are in place, the process of movi ...

This Phase II proposal provides the work plan and milestones to design, model, and manufacture a test bed for evaluating and validating optimal and novel solution sets for hardening a diverse set of Air Force (AF) facilities culminating in a complete specification and drawing package for an initial facility. Phase I was successful in analyzing AF Global Strike Command (GSC) Wing Command Posts (WCP ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can provide electronic system designs with a high degree of relatively inexpensive customization. Unfortunately, the fabrication facilities are located in untrusted facilities. This prevents their use in applications requiring a high degree of safety or security. Hidden functionality could potentially be inserted during manufacture. These Trojans can be used ...

The Graf Research goal for this program is to produce a 3rd-Party IP (3PIP) assessment technique entitled DELV.DELV accomplishes the goals of establishing trust in the 3PIP under test, with the additional requirements that it (1) does not add significant cost to the core, (2) does not require extensive time to apply, (3) does not require extensive verification or reverse engineering expertise to u ...

The Corrosion Rate Enabled Wash Cycle Updating Technique (CREWCUT) is designed to provide a conditioned-based approach to optimize aircraft and support equipment washing cycle practices, which are currently time-based. It is proposed as an enterprise information system that will automatically extract asset usage (e.g., aircraft flight and deployment history), correlate it to data representing the ...

The technical objective of the Phase II project is to develop the production-ready Dynamic Flight Simulation (DFS) system using the F-15 Saudi as a testbed and validate it with the F-15 Saudi flight test data. The key element in the DFS system is the Reduced-Order-Model (ROM)-based aeroelastic solver with an embedded aerodynamic forces database that is generated by a steady Navier-Stokes solver an ...

In Phase II of BAARS, the PI2 team will:Develop a final design specification for the Phase II BAARS prototype. System must be capable of use to aid vision in night, day, and all-weather operations. Develop a test plan.Fabricate a prototype BAARS HMD and perform preliminary testing and characterization of the mechanical, optical, and electronic components and full HMD as an integrated assembly.Deve ...

ULTRA (Ultra Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft) will be a cost-effective, persistent unmanned aerial platform for providing high-quality pattern-of-life intelligence to the battlefield commander. Consistent and long-term ISR data is highly valuable in picking out “low-contrast� asymmetric threats in the contemporary battlefield. Existing platforms can only achieve this w ...

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are attractive to many military users, with their potential capability to enable new missions and reduce costs.The US Air Force (USAF) alone has procured more than 500 surveillance drones weighing more than 2000 pounds each since 1995.Their ability to remain on-station for long periods of time makes them ideal reconnaissance platforms. Since aircrew fatigue is not an ...