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This Phase II effort prototypes a minimal volume microscope designed to allow for a 2-D digital holographic imaging concurrent with field of view spectral content at video frame rates. The use of a laser driven IR dual beam frequency comb, coincident with the optical beam path required for a digital holographic image, will allow rapid acquisition of both the spatial and the spectral content associ ...

Safe operation of the current Navy lighterage system can be performed in Sea State 3 and below. At present, sea state estimation is made by Navy personnel and is dependent on their level of experience.Creare is developing an automated Sea State Predictor (SSP) to provide a more accurate and reliable determination of the current sea state. The system relies on measurement of heave of the warping tu ...

WriteWarden provides full-time, in-situ data device protection, allowing selected permitted and verified writes to occur to the device, while reliably performing hardware-enforced, full write-protection at all other times. In all instances of unverified writes, WriteWarden is designed to fail safe, prohibiting all modification to the data storage media though not only software assurances, but also ...

Development of multiple (8) SAR packages to increase sources and competition of ALRE CSI/CAI items, to reduce cost and lead time.

This effort will develop and demonstrate methods for remotely assessing the status of electrical grids based on the illumination from lights powered by those grids. It will lead to the development of low-cost sensors which can be passively assess grid health over a large scale. This effort will assess grid health by exploiting recent advances in high-spatial, high-temporal resolution imaging and t ...

Cross Deck Pendants (CDP) used to recover aircraft onboard aircraft carriers are exposed to a challenging environment of physical impact, abrasion, and strain which limit life expectancy to approximately 125 arrestment cycles. Three primary effects are known to contribute to CDP failure including tail hook impact, hook slip, and final bending around the hook, although the precise contributions of ...

The Air Force RamGun test facility exposes candidate structural joints to hydrodynamic ram, simulating the effect of artillery impact on an aircraft fuel bay. A projectile launched by a gas gun impacts a water filled chamber to create a pressure wave that impinges on a test article. In the existing facility, the pressure pulse is noisy and irregular, making test results difficult to interpret cons ...

Ablative coatings for hypersonics are tested at facilities such as the AEDC Range G and the Holloman High Speed Test Track. A test article is accelerated to velocity up to 18,000 ft/s in a relevant atmosphere and travels up to 10,000 ft. It is important to measure the coating erosion at multiple discrete points along the trajectory to characterize non-linear ablation response. Existing measurement ...

The AFCreate platform provides a holistic solution for the rapid and secure development, distribution and delivery of applications for the United States Air Force. Leveraging Dynepic's commercial award-winning playPORTAL platform, the AFCreate platform includes three seamlessly integrated components. First, the AFCreate Studio provides a low-code environment with multi-language Software Developmen ...

The AFWERX Innovation Crowdsourcing Initiative seeks expertise in designing, implementing, and operating a system that effectively guides, trains, and supports 5,500+ aspiring innovator/warfighters with a minimum of moderators. LaunchPath proposes to: 1. Identify and analyze the user base of AFWERX innovation program participants and administrators, 2. Develop a problem interview script and conduc ...