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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 ...

Alphacore will develop an Intermediate Frequency (IF) Conversion System for High-Bandwidth Multiplexed Sensors Arrays for Phase II of NIST's 2018 soliciation for Exploratory Measurement Science Topic 9.04.02.68.The proposing team has already successfully developed and evaluated a prototype board in Phase I.The goal in Phase II is therefore to achieve three primary objectives:1) Optimize the design ...

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. ...

Our ability to rapidly respond to new chemical and biological threats is limited by a lack of facilities, personnel, and equipment able to conduct precision molecular analysis. We can remove this bottleneck by deploying a protective network of new automated, high performance surveillance equipment around ordinary warfighters and civilians for the first time. Sensitive enough to detect all manner o ...

vST makes an interactive virtual space of the physical world useful; with accurate and properly geolocated terrain and structure visualizations. It allows the navigation through a prospective area of operations prior to engagement. This allows decision makers the opportunity to identify obstacles and exploitable characteristics during the early stages of the decision-making process. vST provides T ...

Dominance in hypersonic systems is necessary to counter emerging threats from near-peer states which are aggressively developing their own hypersonic capabilities. An important part of the Air Force’s projected future capabilities is reusable hypersonic aircraft with the ability to operate from conventional fields and accelerate to speeds of Mach 5 or above. These aircraft could perform a v ...

Baker Engineering LLC. (BE) has been developing small lightweight turbochargers to help address the fact that small UAS engines currently suffer from low durability, poor efficiency, and non-heavy fuel operations. Specifically, BE’s efforts focus on turbochargers for the class 2 and 3 UAS engines. The advanced turbochargers enhance the durability, efficiency, and overall operations of small ...

In this STTP project, AVIRTEK will leverage the tools and algorithms developed in the AMAP Phase II SBIR to develop an AMAP-based Autonomic Security Operations Center (ASoC) system that continuously monitors the cyber resources and services 24 by 7, performs anomaly behavior analysis to detect malicious activities and proactively recommends actions to stop attacks and minimize their impacts. AMAP- ...

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 ...