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True Anomaly is developing a software suite to integrate tactical command and control for immediate response forces (IRF), high-fidelity and highly-scalable astrodynamics modeling and simulation, and spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) mission planning and control. This effort will extend the capability of True Anomaly’s existing astrodynamics modeling and simulation environment ...

This proposal is for an innovative power system for small satellites that uses a closed-loop Brayton cycle heat engine to produce electric power.The system is shown in \figref{powersystem}. The miniature power plant drives a multi-phase permanent magnet generator with innovative power electronics to produce power from any fuel source. For spacecraft with mono-propellant thruster systems the same f ...

Avalanche Energy Designs Inc. offers its disruptive invention of a 5kWe micro-fusion reactor that is carbon-free, small and that has a high power density. The reactor confines ions electrostatically like an Orbitrap while overcoming space charge limits by co-confining electrons with a weak magnetic field like a Magnetron, hence the device is called an “Orbitron”. It can burn deuterium-tritium ...

Room temperature nanoscale energy harvester has been tested for over two years and a micro version has again proven that energy can be continuously harvested at room temperature. Our energy harvester has an energy density of 1550W/L and more than 40 percent greater than any lithium-ion battery. Continuous power, higher energy output, scalable, long lasting (more than one year) and without the asso ...

PUNCH proposes DCOFlow, a defensive cyber operations (DCO) ML analytic pipeline to train, manage, and deploy a suite of unsupervised ML algorithms that leverage contextual cyber features. DCOFlow fills a current need within ML-based methods used in cyber – to update, monitor, and deploy ML-based analytic methods in a context-aware, dynamic way into different mission environments. DCOFlow is desi ...

The main objective of this effort is to develop a cloud enabled Universal Data Aggregator (UDA) to automate and encrypt mission specific exfiltrated data from adversary domains. Def-Logix will develop an agent(s) that will reside in the adversary network that will target communicate indirectly or directly with mission C2 operators. The UDA will covertly communicate bidirectionally with target agen ...

By significantly accelerating convolution neural networks (CNN) beyond the limits of electronic computation, high speed photonic processing and interconnects have the potential to dramatically advance the speed and complexity of AI/ML-based systems. This program’s objective is to demonstrate a photonic processor system that uses a state-of-the art AI/ML architecture to classify targets from 4K, ...

To address the Strategic Capabilities Office’s need for a high-throughput photonic processor for artificial intelligence/machine learning programs, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Ultrafast Robust Optical Correlator (UROC) based on Intellisense’s previously demonstrated Real-time Holographic Optical Correlator (RHOC) approach. The UROC system will build upon ...

Cyber infrastructures efficiently supporting data collection and transmission have become essential to the mission of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Intelligence is an extremely important element that impacts DoD’s strategic decisions at critical times. The success f intelligence operations is possible only if quality data/information—and actionable insights from that data—ar ...

Conventional image processing and target recognition capabilities are struggling to keep pace with the data collected by the plethora of existing deployed sensor suites. Future developments in Deep Neural Networks (DNN) depend on advances in hardware just as much as in software. However, electronic hardware accelerators have already been pushed to their limits in scalability. IFOS proposes a chip- ...