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Agile RF Systems in partnership with the University of Oklahoma (OU) propose to develop and test an impulse radar (IR) based on a new, low cost, commercially available chipset. This chipset was originally developed and is used in medical radar devices. The radar incorporates an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) array antenna with correlation-sampling electronic scanning in the time-domain, to achieve a scalabl ...

In this Phase II project, WW Technology Group (WWTG) will develop a scalable and powerful framework and foundation for Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) supported by Big Data in a streamlined software toolchain. The approach uses an established front end that can consume a wide variety of data types and formats found in engineering documents. A series of Big Data analytic methods are used to r ...

Dissecting missile motors for the analysis of the chemical and physical properties of the propellant is indeed an inherently dangerous process. Ignition of the propellant during the dissection process would surely result in the catastrophic loss of facility and personnel. The process of dissection must perform with a bare minimum of well understood, monitored and managed risk factors all while max ...

The proposed Soil Moisture Advancements from Research to Transition (SMART) solution will adapt IBM’s Physical Analytics Integrated Repository and Services (PAIRS) Geoscope and the Watson Agriculture Package commercial technologies and use them as the basis for a novel Machine-learning (ML) system. SMART will establish a containerized service to build and deliver machine-learned soil moistu ...

FireSky/CHATTIN (Cyber Hardening and Agility Technology for Tactical IP Networks) provides cyber defense, agility, and real-time threat intelligence for aerial tactical IP networks. FireSky/CHATTIN drops into existing IP based aerial networks and provides cyber defense. This work involves enhancing FireSky/CHATTIN to provide the capabilities required for deployment to Battlefield Airborne Communic ...

The Air Force requires a system to provide over the horizon tracking to support development and test of Sea Skimming Missiles (SSM). Under this SBIR Phase I effort, Defense Research Associates, Inc.(DRA) will document system requirements, identify and assess sensor technologies capable of performing the missile tracking task, develop a system design to meet the requirements using the most promisin ...

Space superiority requires space protection and space situational awareness (SSA), which rely on rapid and accurate space object behavioral and operational intent discovery. The presence of adversaries in addition to real-time and hidden information constraints greatly complicates the decision-making process in controlling both ground-based and space-based Air Force surveillance assets. The focus ...

The proposed Phase II effort focuses on enhancing the design, development and analysis of a high voltage BST based varactors for tunable filter applications. High voltage BST varactors will enable wide tuning range filters with high quality factors and increased power handling and linearity. Advanced filter design techniques will also be leveraged to increase the effective quality factor of the fi ...

In the United States Air Force alone there are more than 300,000 employees, and operational stressors on Air Force intelligence analysts increase the risk rate for clinical distress by 65%. It can take 1-3 years to train and replace an ISR analyst, and the Air Force is spending approximately $35k per recruit annually in incentives because of high burnout rates. Further, 40% of DCGS intelligence pe ...

To ensure the structural integrity of all US Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force P-8A fleet aircraft, the collection and analysis of condition data describing in-service structural degradation of the airframe is required to assess the fleet’s condition. This requires collecting and recording airframe defects, inspections, repairs, and modifications to aircraft structures. The NLign appl ...