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As increasing individuals and organizations move their activities and services into online, network performance problems resulting in slow data communication speed becomes the significant obstacle for satisfactory user experience. Currently, there is a lack of a fully automated tool that can help network users to find the complicated network problems that degrade the performance of network applica ...

The goal of this Phase I SBIR project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a x-ray beam profile imaging system with a pixel size of less than 50 μm, transparency better than 90% for monochromatic beams >5keV in addition to fast feedback, flux response and dynamic range. Furthermore, the monitor will include real time digital data acquisition and feedback controls with an ability to measure 107 ph ...

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) provides an elite undergraduate educational program that integrates academic, military, and athletic programs to develop leaders of character, motivated to lead the Air Force in service to our nation. By the time cadets graduate and are commissioned as second lieutenants they are expected to acquire a combination of knowledge, skills, and responsibilitie ...

NIST developed risk management framework and guidelines that assist agencies to implement integrated, organization‐wide programs to manage information security risk, and further developed Cloud Security Architecture Tool (CSAT) to facilitate in this matter. However, NIST’s CSAT needs further improvement and implementation of new functions such that it can be commercialized as an Enterprise‐g ...

The successful operation of superconducting magnets requires high-performance epoxy that is mechanically strong, electrically insulated, cryogenically compatible and chemically compatible with other superconducting magnet components. For high energy physics (HEP) applications, the epoxy must also be radiation resistant to survive the particle radiation environment. Recent rapid developments in mag ...

We have been witnessed the Industroyer power grid cybersecurity attack in Ukraine’s power system in which attackers controlled the substation’s circuit breakers and protection relays. In 2018, CyberwarCon forum in Washington, DC reported that a variety of hacker groups (e.g., Russian Energetic Bear) have been targeting to the U.S. power grids. For defending these attacks, grid data integrity a ...

Phase I analysis results show that in order to potentially meet the round trip and exergetic efficiencies as required by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Office, for thermal energy storage in concentrated solar plants, a composite of porous silicon carbide and molten salt phase change material is needed.For a 100 megawatt (electrical) concentrated solar power plant with 12 hour ...

The goal of this phase II project is to capitalize on the successes of the Phase I project for fabricating high density interconnects, thermal vias and micro-bumps for high performance stacked chip detector instrumentation using an innovative additive manufacturing technology called confined electro-deposition (CED) printing developed.The advantages of the proposed technology include fine line pur ...

The production of advanced magnets, which are capable of generating magnetic fields of 16 Tesla and higher, requires advances in superconducting conductors that can be produced in volume and that is capable of operating at high temperatures.This program is focused on the development of highperformance bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide powder, or Bi2212, which is a leading candidate material f ...

Thin-ply prepregs offer significant improvements in weight reduction, stiffness and overall mechanical properties over traditional composite laminates. nbsp;Thin plies (lt;0.05 mm/layer) suppress or delay crack initiation in loaded composite structures thereby allowing for manufacturing of lighter, stiffer and more durable composite products. Recent thin-ply prepreg materials, consisting of toughe ...