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Fog and smog reduce visibility at sea, greatly impacting ship navigation and safety. Low visibility marine conditions decrease speed and safety of commercial fleets and increase costs through poor fuel load planning. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of maritime operations to the supply chain; therefore, decreasing associated cost and risk are of the utmost importance. Applied Ocean ...

We propose a high-impact innovation for weather forecasting that integrates global ensemble weather forecasts with an AI-driven post-processing model of extreme weather indices. This innovation will provide the basis for skillful probabilistic forecasts of compound extreme weather events at extended lead times. Extreme weather/climate events of relevance to electric utilities focused on in Phase I ...

"Metron proposes to develop user-friendly software to promote understanding of impacts due to cascading climate hazards and extreme weather events, in collaboration with George Mason University (GMU). Climate and extreme weather (CEW) hazards pose significant risks to life and property. As extreme events become more prevalent, risks associated with cascading, compound events come to the fore, such ...

Team ITA proposes a model-based, decision support digital twin, capable of guiding NASArsquo;s investment decisions at system level across the entire facility enterprise. The key elements of this innovation are investment optimization models and scenario modeling that leverage system degradation models and investment response models:Investment optimization models ndash; a set of global prescriptiv ...

Abrasion and flame-resistant yarn and textiles will be developed to protect the ortho layer of spacesuits against the extreme lunar surface environments. Flexible, nanocomposite fibers will be produced using a novel fluoroelastomer siloxane material with demonstrated flame resistance in 36% oxygen environment. Siloxane segments with low glass transition temperatures are incorporated into copolymer ...

The team of Techsburg, AVEC, and Virginia Tech propose a program that directly complements the recent NASA/Joby Aviation flight test program by studying isolated low tip speed tiltrotor noise in detail, with an initial primary objective of the development and validation of scaling methods to extend tests and models to full-scale applications, including noise sources due to ingestion of naturally o ...

NewBridge Partners, Inc. has developed an innovative, radiation-hard, very high-performance all-reflective optics star tracker deemed HRST (High Radiation Star Tracker). The instrument directly addresses the need for long-life performance in high radiation environments such as Jupiter where current conventional star trackers cannot readily meet the harsh radiation requirements. The design consists ...

NewBridge Partners, Inc. has developed an innovative, compact, laser communications pointing mechanism for precise optical beam control. This pointing approach eliminates the need for fast steering mirrors and dual purposes a grating Risley prism to perform both the coarse pointing and the stabilization functions, thereby reducing complexity in the pointing system. The grating Risley enables good ...

The air transportation system is on the verge of drastic change.nbsp; Enabled by technological advances in areas including electric propulsion, computational capabilities, and machine learning, emerging vehicles have the potential to drastically lower transportation costs.nbsp; Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities are expanding operational flexibility, and will allow vehicles to takeof ...

Luna is proposing to add new distributed acoustic sensing capabilities to embedded fiber optic sensors that have been proven to sense creep in inflatable structures. The team will apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to the strain and acoustic signals to automatically localize impacts and leaks, sense creep in the restraint layer materials, and detect anomalies in ...