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New and effective techniques of acoustic suppression are critical in lightweight composite payload fairings currently launched on expendable launch vehicles. The objective of this research is to develop a system of active acoustic absorbers to be integrated within payload fairings to increase acoustic damping and dissipate low frequency acoustic energy. In the Phase I feasibility of a sy ...

The cost of corrosion for Air Force aircraft and missiles is estimated to be $5.7 billion per the 2018 LMI Cost of Corrosion report. The first line of defense and single most important factor in controlling structural corrosion of aircraft is the protective coating system. Advance coating performance test systems have been developed that measure the failure modes of greatest concern for aircraft s ...

The US is increasingly dependent on space-based capabilities for communications, GPS navigation, and GEOINT and MASINT products to support modern warfighters. At the same time, space is becoming increasingly crowded and new threats are constantly emerging. Every unknown object in space poses a potential threat to US space operations, with possibilities ranging from inadvertent debris collisions to ...

In this effort, we will continue the development of tracking and characterization algorithms necessary for a Theater Ballistic Missile Defense framework based on sensors and weapons placed on forward based airborne platforms.In the contested battle space of the future, particularly with a peer adversary, there may be near-simultaneous missile launches all which may cue missile defense systems.Util ...

This 18-month Phase II project extends earlier research by translating current research theories of collaborative sensemaking and knowledge management into a working constructive simulation model that can support the exploration of different classes of variables-doctrinal, organizational, training, technology, personnel-and their effect on the ability of a military organization to produce timely a ...

The prominence of launch costs in space flight experiments has fueled the development of small satellites with payloads of increasing complexity. As the deployed size of payloads grows without increasing stowed volume, the complexity of the mechanical deployment schemes increase correspondingly. Traditionally, control of deployment is the responsibility, not of the payload developer, but of the ...

The non-traditional technology market and dual-use ecosystem produce thousands of technologies and companies each year. Funded and developed by private capital, these technologies have significant application in the military – but only if military users can find and assess them. To effectively bring these technologies to bear on military missions, users need to accomplish five key activitie ...

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 ...

Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Operations Center (DOC) schedulers has an urgent need an automated, role-based system to ingest and evaluate global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) flight schedule changes against available processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) assets to ensure accuracy and scalability as mission requests increase. Currently, the sche ...

Current analytical tools are incapable of providing comprehensive effectiveness and affordability insights that inform the decision space from both the warfighters and acquirers perspectives.This research focuses on developing an Optimizing Strike Planner incorporated into the Joint, campaign-level Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model (STORM) to automatically generate optimized ATOs that 1) ...