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The intelligence community is hampered in its ability to provide information to a gamut of users. The critical shortfalls are database access, timely data fusion, robust dissemination techniques, and communications bandwidth. This effort will create adynamic and responsive intelligence architecture to include; multiple database access, support dynamic user profiling through intelligent agents, p ...

The intelligence community is hampered in its ability to provide information to a gamut of users. The critical shortfalls are database access, timely data fusion, robust dissemination techniques, and communications bandwidth. This effort will create adynamic and responsive intelligence architecture to include; multiple database access, support dynamic user profiling through intelligent agents, p ...

Future satellite architectures must readily support the on-orbit maintenance and servicing that is vital for maintaining and dynamically reconfiguring both commercial and military satellites during orbital operation. A well-founded architectural designmust also address the need to reduce costs associated with satellite development, fabrication, and operation; improve flexibility in response to mis ...

The ability to maneuver, change orbits, and rapidly deploy spacecraft is a key requirement for the space user community. However, large and bulky propulsion systems with a significant mass of fuel on board often limit the maneuverability and capabilitiesof space vehicles. AeroAstro is developing aerobraking concepts and structures that use the Earth's atmosphere for braking and steering, signifi ...

This contract develops and expands on the technology for micromachining silicon deformable mirrors as a result of work in Stanford research laboratories over the last 5 years. The commerical and military applications of this technology will be exploitedand specific uses will be investigated. Hardware specific to applications will be prepared and evaluated for a few selected uses.The optics indus ...

Compound semiconductors enable numerous important electronics and optoelectronics applications. They are commonly produced via epitaxial deposition methods, but the existing compound semiconductor substrate materials are expensive, highly defective, andnot available in large sizes. The use of silicon substrates is attractive because of their low cost, low defect density, and large sizes. Howeve ...

In a large computer network, a sophisticated, coordinated attack can have a devastating impact. To thwart the effectiveness of such an attack, investigators and administrators must be able to quickly understand what resources were affected and how theywere affected. Complicating this task is the fact that few large facilities, either commercial or military, have sufficient expert personnel to ph ...

In this Phase II SBIR project, Athena technologies proposes to continue development of its revolutionary

In this Phase II SBIR project, Athena technologies proposes to continue development of its revolutionary

This Air Force Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) topic is designed toproduce an Integrated Communications Module (ICM) through which current andfuture upgrades to communications systems that may affect GPS signals and receiversmay be effectively simulated. It is important that the effects be quantifiedbecause interference with the GPS signals will cause degradation in platformpositioning a ...