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Fibertek proposes to develop a space qualifiable, small, optical modem board to support interoperable, encoding and decoding for free-space optical communications links. Space is a contested environment where traditional RF communications are susceptible to being jammed and intercepted. Optical communications offer a resilient solution, and its inclusion on SmallSats and in constellations is an Ai ...

This Air Force Phase I STTR program would develop self-calibrating, conformal nanomembrane (NM) based pressure sensors for embedded sensing applications, using SOI (Silicon on Insulator) NM techniques in combination with our pioneering nanocomposite materials.Such low-modulus, conformal nanomembrane sensor skins with integrated self-calibration, interconnect elements and electronic devices that ca ...

Echo Ridge proposes to study the utility of non-GNSS satellite-based broadcasts as additional RF sources to provide PNT in GPS-unavailable environments.The capability will be used in conjunction with two on-going Air Force-sponsored efforts; one addressing a dismount need where LEO satellite broadcasts are currently being used to provide PNT in a commercial handheld UE devices, and a second direct ...

Veracity Forecasting and Analysis will develop a capability to predict reliability and maintainability issues using existing data for nuclear weapons systems. During Phase I, Veracity will (1) identify multiple reliability and maintenance data streams for use in modeling; (2) develop methods to process, clean, and fuse the data; (3) design a software framework for using data to predict reliability ...

CTG believes the way to advance the state-of-the-art in compact UHF/VHF antenna design is to approach it from a somewhat unconventional paradigm. Over the last few years, CTG has developed a line of near-field spot probe microwave antennas that have found effective use as Tier-1 sensors in a variety of applications. Integral to CTGs design is the incorporation of dielectric materials optimized as ...

We propose investigating the utility of Assembly, our existing personnel and team capability analysis and matchmaking software, to 1) support the Air Force’s mission to develop and field the most lethal force possible 2) help with pilot retention. The Air Force builds thousands of pilot, maintenance, and support services teams each year, and the success of those teams is determined in large ...

Normal aircraft braking is achieved through a process of reverse thrust and a system of hydraulically activated brakes located on the main wheels of the aircraft. These friction based systems offer limited performance benefits including reduced braking capabilities due to brake fade, thermal loading issues, and generally higher operational, maintenance, repair and overhaul costs over the life cycl ...

This SBIR Phase I project proposes a visual processing system for automated target recognition. Inspired by biological vision systems and hierarchical memory models, the proposed system is capable of learning hierarchical invariant features from unlabeled data that are independent of object labels. The model exploits these learned features to create hierarchical representations of target memories ...

Thermal batteries are single discharge reserve batteries that provide very long shelf life, minimal self-discharge, wide storage temperature range, fast activation under sudden power demand, and also wide range of temperature operating conditions. Such unique properties among electrochemical power systems are provided with application of molten salt electrolyte, which is in solid form under normal ...

The application of HPEM weapons to disable enemies electronic capabilities is hampered by the lack of practical tools for electronic BDA. To provide real-time, high-resolution BDA in complex, noisy environments requires the use of multiple sensing modalities interpreting diverse signals related to different types of target electronic components. To aggregate and interpret the data from these varie ...