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Increasing global RF electromagnetic (EM) activity related to commercial, scientific, and military systems, threatens the integrity of satellite communication links and has resulted in an environment cluttered with RF signals, particularly in the UHF-band. This is causing two major problems: 1) interference (due to co-site and jamming); and 2) increase in the EM noise floor. These effects can caus ...

Unmanned Autonomous Systems are required to operate in cluttered, unknown, and unstructured environments. Guaranteeing the safety of these systems is critical for their successful deployment. Autonomous vehicles often need to operate near their limits to effectively complete their tasks. Safety of these vehicles needs to be imposed while respecting the constraints imposed by sensory and dynamic li ...

The robustness and operational flexibility of UAS will be significantly enhanced through the integration of autonomous path-planning algorithms that modify system behavior based on changing mission requirements and environmental factors. Many such algorithms have been developed, but the certification of these algorithms typically involves brute-force testing in high-fidelity simulation, which is a ...

Accurate and reliable Regime Recognition (RR) algorithms are a key enabling technology for a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program, which tailors the service profile to individual vehicles and their subsystems based on actual aircraft usage. In general, production RR algorithms with the required accuracy to provide such usage information do not exists yet, in part because of the expense and hu ...

TDA is proposing to develop a model based technique to automate the verification and validation process of helicopter regime recognition codes in three major steps. In the first step, a list of standardized flight regimes will be developed as this is a pre-requisite for automated verification and validation process, and these may become the recommended standard in the helicopter and HUMS community ...

The goal of the proposed research is to develop a non-destructive method for subsurface residual stress measurement in turbo-machinery components. Neutron diffraction techniques have a proven ability to determine residual stresses at significant depths, however implementation of these techniques has been limited to specialized facilities such as the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) neutron at Oak ...

The Navy has a requirement to support Electronic Kneeboards within USN and USMC Aircraft that will allow pilots to bring a tablet onboard that can contain various documents and media to assist in the execution of their mission. We will design a software system that will extend the capabilities of the COTS tablets through implementation of NSA specifications called Commercial Solutions for Classifi ...

The Kneeboard must operate robustly and efficiently in disjointed environments at multiple security levels and with multiple IO streams. It is therefore a task that calls for a fresh start, away from the one-armed paperhanger model of handheld device design. Space Sciences Corporation arrives at this task with several unique abilities and pieces of IP which make the fresh start possible. Our appro ...

The specific opportunity to be addressed here is that of leveraging advanced geo-referenced information and analysis techniques and tools in support of the Navy Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW DSS) threat opposition force (OPFOR) assessment, also known as "Red Teaming". The OPFOR commander plans and executes missions in opposition to U.S. Navy forces with consideration of the air-sea ...

Adaptive Methods proposes to define, design and develop innovative approaches, methods and software Tactical Decision Aids (TDAs) to evaluate suitability and likelihood of opposing force (OPFOR) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) threat operations. This project will provide an innovative Threat Suitability TDA that uses fuzzy logic algorithms to define, develop and evaluate threat suitability. Determini ...