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Interlinked Software for Achieving Analogous Control (ISAAC) offers capability to link geographically disparate N-DOF test beds to facilitate real-time distributed operations. ISAAC is an evolution of an existing distributed simulation architecture used extensively by the US Navy in multiple laboratories implementing a robust, stable, real-time, and deterministic architecture. Adaptation to exis ...

Land Sea Air Autonomy, Mission Motors Company and NWUAV Propulsion Systems propose the development of a hybrid all wheel drive off-road motorcycle. The motorcycle will be a series hybrid motorcycle driven by dual independent electric motors. The motorcycl

X-wave Innovations, Inc. (XII) along with Iowa State University (ISU), is developing a low-cost, hybrid ultrasonic-radio frequency (RF) sensor (HURFS) nondestructive evaluation (NDE) system to assess most structural issues while simultaneously providing feedback on the layer thickness and RF properties of composite, non-conductive materials in multi-layer stacks. The HURFS approach combines the u ...

Battlefield Telecommunications Systems proposes to build low delay low complexity lossless compression software framework and hardware prototype to be integrated in the telemetry system of a target vehicle test bed. The proposed compression algorithm is specially designed for target vehicle telemetry data, designed to reduce the dataset redundancy through the prediction by extracting the characte ...

To achieve the goal of finding radar signal waveforms for supporting target information and deducing sensor-independent attributes, we propose to use a novel chaos-based orthogonal radar signal waveform with matched-filter-like (or adaptive) pulse compression processing for improving target detection. An open-source-and open-architecture prototype platform is proposed to enable performance analys ...

Tier1 Performance Solutions proposes to develop CSAT (Common Situation Awareness Tool), a solution that supports more effective event integration and task management, in order to improve situation awareness and knowledge sharing for missile defense system users and stakeholders. At the core of the CSAT solution is an active knowledge management platform designed so that all users share a common sc ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing light weight and thermally manageable integrated optical systems suitable for airborne and space high power directed energy applications. This project will focus on improving two of the most important parts of a high energy mirror design, the reflective mirror surface, and the multifunctional substrate. Brimrose, in coll ...

There is an acute need for low-power, low-cost, portable mid-wave infrared (MWIR) thermal imaging systems. Current HgCdTe focal plane array (FPA) detectors have high fabrication cost and require low operating temperature. Recent advances in quantum dot (Q

Reciprocity is a property of most wireless propagation media where the direction of the signal propagation does not have any impact on the channel impulse response (CIR). In other words the CIR from node 1 to node 2 is the same as the CIR from node2 to node 1 at any time instance. Additionally, in rich multipath propagation environment any node that is far enough from these two nodes experiences a ...

Applied Defense Solutions (ADS) has embarked upon a new approach to data correlation and aggregation using a space object taxonomy that provides a set of unique signatures for automatically recognizing and classifying a space object. The goal of this Space Signatures effort is to find automated techniques that will enable analysts to take signature data from different phenomenology sensors, combin ...