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In previous R&D, the developers created codeSpark Academy, a game that employs a visual and block-based approach with puzzles to teach coding skills to students ages 5 to 9 years old. codeSpark Academy is in widespread use in and out of schools around the world. In this project, the developers will expand storytelling creative tools within the existing game. The pretend-play scenarios will include ...

The game, which is used by children alone or in tandem with a special education practitioner or caregiver, supports children in understanding and expressing musical patterns, and in learning to sing songs before speaking. This project will extend the existing version by developing a prototype that includes additional songs for increased speech-language learning outcomes, an animated onscreen singe ...

The team will develop a new component of the AR app, a prototype with computer vision and recognition software to present real-world phenomena that are ordinarily not observable in nature. In Phase I, the research team will create a magnetism module would show students the invisible magnetic field all around them and how it interacts with magnetic objects. At the end of Phase I, in a pilot study w ...

The team will develop a prototype of an immersive virtual reality experience for high school students to learn about the scientific processes and the biology of plants. The prototype will be designed to be multi-player where groups of students collaboratively conduct open-ended cross-breeding experiments, record images to export to reports, track and analyze data, and draw conclusions. At the end ...

In this program, we will develop a novel high acceleration and hyper velocity inertial measurement unit. This unit will be based on our previous record setting work on compact optical gyroscopes.

A program to develop a compact, MLA-based, SWIR-MWIR hyperspectral seeker is proposed. The proposed Compact Hyperspectral Imaging Target Seeker (C-HITS) builds upon Surface Optics’ real-time hyperspectral imaging activities, including our 3D full-motion video spectral imaging (FMV-SI) technology and our MIDIS hyperspectral image processor. Simultaneously sampling 16 or more spectral bands from 1 ...

Current Hypersonic projectile systems are being developed to collide with an enemy ballistic missile. Cyan Systems has developed very high definition EOIR imagers, that have the potential to create a compact precision strike weapon. The Hypersonic Electro Optical Seeker System (HEOSS) represents a revolutionary capability for Hypersonic Vehicles (HSVs) because of the extreme resolution, sensitivit ...

Active electronically scanned antennas (AESA) for radar have the potential to be low-cost provided the array architecture is designed for production using commercially available manufacturing processes. Most modern radar antennas employ some form of nulling to reduce sidelobes in key steering directions. For a transmit AESA the most cost effective implementation is to use phase only to steer the m ...

Boeing Defense Systems is developing a guided hypervelocity projectile (HVP) and associated integrated launch package assembly. The nosetip and fixed and rotating fin components present particular challenges due to the high aeroheating and dynamic pressure loads and associated temperatures, thermal shock, and oxidizing conditions. Low drag requires sharp tip and edge features on the nose and fins, ...

Recent advances in aeronautical design and development has contributed to a significant increase in the vulnerability of the warfighter’s land and sea-based assets from threat-targets exhibiting unpredictable, high-dynamic motion, evasive control, and countermeasure usage. The primary defensive strategy against these targets is a fire control radar system. These systems typically use a sing ...