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Low Altitude Sensing Helmet -(LASH) is to provide for pilot night vision when using small non-military planes to operate using unimproved landing areas around the globe. LASH will use SWIR (Short Wave IR) and LWIR (Long Wave IR) technology sensors to provide improved night vision in specified conditions.

Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding has been identified as one of the top three observations needed for improving weather forecasts by providing temperature profiles, moisture profiles, and atmospheric motion vector (AMV) 3D winds. Brandywine Photonics’ proposed total solution is to provide global 2 Km resolution, 4-hr revisit, hyperspectral infrared (LWIR) sounding data through a constellation ...

This SBIR delivers two optical ground stations, based on commercial design, to support experimentation and laser communication with AFRL spacecraft.  These assets facilitate research in flexible space operations, secure low probability of intercept (LPI) communications, and management of shared resources with disparate commercial networks.  The standards based design supports day and night opera ...

Increasing energy costs have placed budget constraints on many branches of the military and has brought to the forefront the problem of reducing costs by maximizing energy efficiency. The Air Force currently heats many of its facilities with the use of steam-based HVAC systems and the overproduction of steam can exacerbate these internal costs. To optimize this steam production, the Air Force is s ...

Phase I has proven that the current setup achieves better than 8mm spatial resolution for 2.2MeV prompt gammas. However, 1mm spatial resolution presents a significant challenge for the current setup due in part to limited timing resolution and count rate. A new analog ASIC will be developed to replace the current analog ASIC that will have better timing resolution and deliver higher count rates. I ...

Today’s Air Force missions are dependent on physically separated personnel and a complex flow of never ending data from a growing number of sources across multiple domains including cyber, FMV, GEOINT, sensor platforms, and more. Existing collaboration capabilities used to communicate, analyze, and act are disjointed, inefficient and unable to keep pace with operational demands making it im ...

AFWERX and AFGSC have entered into a MOU to run a Culture of Innovation Project throughout the entire organization for all 10 Air Force Bases over a 20 month period. The goal of this project will be to leverage and enhance the existing work within AFGSC to create innovative leaders providing safe, secure and lethal combat-ready forces for nuclear and conventional global strike today and tomorrow. ...

TeraMetrix proposes a SBIR STTP CRP project to perform all of the development, on-aircraft validation and transition planning tasks to implement an automated robotic non-contact time-domain terahertz (THz) specialty coating thickness inspection for the F-22 inlet ducts. The proposed THz measurement system will utilize existing spray robots to automatically position the THz sensor, replacing a slow ...

Currently, the AF does not have clear visibility and understanding of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) for changes caused by Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), operational and training requirements updates, modifications to the Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and other causes of change. In this Phase II effort, Securboration extends Phase I MEWSIC to orchestrate an ...

The USAF needs to develop a lethal and ready force full of innovation-minded Airmen. It needs to create its innovation culture, develop its innovation competency, and cultivate innovation communities that sustain and perpetuate the innovation practices into the future. Based on more than 25 years of research and practice, the Competing Values® LLC/ Innovatrium® LLC (“InnovatriumÃ¢â‚¬ï¿ ...