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As outsourced microelectronic manufacturing grows, the safety and security of U.S. consumers becomes increasingly threatened by potential counterfeit electronics. Current counterfeit inspection techniques are labor intensive, time consuming, and impractical to use by field agents located on remote sites, away from major facilities, and with limited expertise. The proposed work, Fast and Accurate D ...

Additional passenger fatalities and injuries can occur in rollover-type derailment accidents due to failures of glazing retention mechanisms on passenger railcars. In recent accidents, a key failure mode is shearing off the external rubber gasket that secures the glazing panes as the side of the railcar drags along the ground. Once the gasket fails, the glazing pane is pushed inside, leaving an op ...

Cyberattacks are a growing concern in every market with network-connected devices. Attacks such as ransomware, malware, spyware, spoofing, botnets, and more, can result in intellectual property theft, system downtime, reputation damage, and unfortunately loss of life. Most cyberattack detection techniques are limited in scalability and detection efficacy as the cyberattack landscape is constantly ...

To date, no realizable method of predicting the occurrence or magnitude of a Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) event has been developed. There are multiple models currently available in the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) through Goddard Space Flight Center that attempt to provide timely and accurate event propagation (e.g.MAG4, Enlil, and SEPMOD). None of these have yet achieved the goa ...

Building lunar infrastructure requires moving regolith in unprecedented quantities both to produce level areas,nbsp;cutting in some areas, filling in others, for the infrastructurersquo;s construction, It also requires excavation to provide regolith feedstock for beneficiation and in situ manufacturing of the materials from which much of the infrastructure is to be built.Regolith handling characte ...

nbsp;Based on the knowledge and expertise gained in partnership with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) during the NASA/STTR Phase I work, re:3D proposes the development of a pilot system for the deposition of a phenolic foam TPS surface onto a scaled demonstration article in parallel with refinements and improvements to the foamrsquo;s material characteristics.The Phase II research ac ...

The proposed innovation is to design and demonstrate an End-to-End Space Mission Operations Digital Twin (MODT) Platform for collaborative multi-disciplinary analysis and decision making in Mission Control.nbsp; This platform will provide situational awareness across the flight control team and crew, through a hyper-realistic, multi-user, multi-modal virtual environment that integrates existing (a ...

Recent advances in techniques for Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) have the potential to produce electronics assemblies that are uniquely compact and conformable, but these techniques have not been proven effective for space applications. Designing and fabricating printed circuit boards (PCBs) that can meet rigorous space flight qualifications specifications is challenging. There are curr ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of a bandwidth tailored pump source for high purity photon pair generation. Spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate high purity photon pairs at wavelengths of interest to NASA and the broader scientific community. However, these sources are highly dependent on pulsed pump laser parameters. Traditional pulsed laser sources are la ...

Our Brickbot conveyance system comprises of bucket drums and annbsp;electromagnetic sieving and filtering system mounted on a robotic mobility platform used for initial risk reduction test demonstrations. Anbsp;method to scoop the uncompacted top surface layer of lunar regolith is employed to depositnbsp;acquired regolith directly over the top of the robotrsquo;s shroud cover which is modified to ...