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Under AFRL SBIR Contract F33615-03-M-2384 Phase I, CFDRC has developed and demonstrated the foundation of a comprehensive code for modeling spray cooling hardware for micro-gravity applications. The code includes effects that are critical in micro-gravity and cannot be thoroughly investigated using gravity dominated ground-based experiments. In Phase II, this code will be further developed, refin ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE ANTI-SIMULATION TACTIC BOTH FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE OFFENSE AND FROM THAT OF THE DEFENSE. THE OFFENSE POINT OF VIEW INCLUDES DETERMINING THE SIGNATURE FEATURES THAT THE ANTI-SIMULATION TACTIC ATTEMPTS TO DISGUISE AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH THESE FEATURES CAN BE MODIFIED BY PRACTICAL ALTERATIONS OF BOTH THE RV AND THE DECOY. THIS PORTION OF THE RESEARCH WILL A ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop and demonstrate an integrated software tool based on surrogate models for real-time analysis and prediction of combined static and dynamic external loads using non-proprietary physics-based models and existing flight-test data. In Phase I key technology elements were developed and proof-of-principle was successfully demonstrated. Load analysis software ...

A W-band digital communications transceiver will be developed with 5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth utilizing the 71 - 76 and 81 - 86 GHz frequency spectrum recently allocated by the FCC. This project has both military and commercial applications for SATCOM and Point-to-Point digital communications using formats such as 1.25 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet for extremely wideband data and video transmission ...

MICA was selected and awarded to ARiA under SBIR Topic AF151-194, technically managed by AFRL/RITB with SAF/AQ-OTI as the sponsor organization. Under prior Phase I and II SBIR efforts ARiA developed, trained, and tested the Machine Interface for Contracting Assistance (MICA). MICA leverages academic and commercial-sector advances in cognitive-computing, deep learning, graph storage, informational ...

The overall goal of Phase II is to develop a powerful tool to correlate large amounts of asynchronous data in near real-time and meet current operational requirements for the Joint Command and Control Community for rapid, accurate Battle Damage Assessment and operational assessment. The team will build upon a successful research project in Phase I in which the team was able to demonstrate that cog ...

ABSTRACT:Recent technical demonstrations in hostile fire sensing and classification have highlighted the use of costly cryogenically-cooled electro-optical sensors.While capable, these types of sensors come with a higher initial purchase price as well as high life cycle costs per platform.This activity will implement a broad area hostile fire sensing architecture that uses lower cost discrete sens ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATED DATA BASE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WHICH CONTAINS A BROAD CROSS SECTION OF INFORMATION ON SPACECRAFT MATERIALS. SUCH A DATA BASE DOES NOT CURRENTLY EXIST. THE DATA BASE FILE STRUCTURE WILL INCLUDE OUTGASSING AND CONDENSATION DATA AND MATERIALS PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. THE SYSTEM IS FOCUSED TOWARD SER ...

In Phase I, CFDRC has successfully accomplished the development of a DoD open-source geometry kernel based on an advanced NURBS fitting procedure, a Bézier curve method, and a subdivision surface procedure to recover and to retain the boundary geometry. We have also developed and demonstrated APIs to allow the geometry kernel to interoperate with other simulation frameworks to enable accurate p ...

The solution that this proposal offers is the implementation of GasTOPS’ commercially proven ChipCHECK system to provide at-line wear debris analysis for the MQ-9 fleet. ChipCHECK is a highly capable tool that performs quick, reliable and repeatable analysis of wear debris chip particles obtained from MCDs removed from an engine, at the flight line, in order to identify impending failures b ...