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UHAC has demonstrated the capability to operate in water, mud, sand, and over rough terrain. The CACs are the foundation of the concept and those used on the technology demonstrator vehicles possessed the necessary functionality, but lacked the durability required for military vehicles. Under this proposal CACs with the necessary durability will be developed and tested. Also addressed will be the ...

The Air Force has a need to deliver a payload to a specifically identified target location within prescribed accuracy limits. The delivery system must be small, light-weight, and capable of operating effectively at significantly greater distances than existing man-portable systems. AeroVironment Inc. (AVI) will design, build, test and deliver air vehicles, launchers and ground control units und ...

Today’s aerospace industry struggles to rapidly design, experiment, and field novel aerospace and defense capabilities because of the “lock in” business practices of major prime contractors. The rise of computational tools has not shortened design and build timelines over the last 50 years because their use has been offset by a “hard tooling” mindset investing in overly durable and compl ...

The ability to rapidly deploy shelter is critical to a lethal and resilient force. New and innovative technologies are needed to advance the capabilities of Air Force civil engineers and RED HORSE units. ICON is developing a technology that could offer a step advance in the ability of expeditionary teams to rapidly deploy shelter and base defenses using 3D printing of concrete structures. Potentia ...

Navy’s digital modular radios (DMRs) have been upgraded to support a wide range of waveforms (e.g. SRW, HAVE QUICK, SINCGARS, SATCOM, and MUOS). To further increase the fleet’s warfighting capability, the U.S. Navy is interested in reducing the number of single function RF systems required on Navy ships and submarines. EMBARC (Efficient Multi-carrier Broadband Amplifier for Radio Communication ...

Falkonry LRS is your “Data Scientist in a Box,â€ï¿½ pre-packaged operational machine learning (ML) empowers your teams with pattern discovery, predictive analytics and explanation to improve uptime, performance, quality and safety. Falkonry believes its AI-enabled LRS could add significant value to the processing of electronic intelligence (ELINT) data, at scale and for significantly l ...

In this SBIR FastTrack proposal, Micro-Leads will develop HD64—a high-resolution, 64- channel spinal cord stimulation therapy to provide more pain relief with greater specificity for those suffering from chronic neuropathic pain and opioid dependence. Over 25 million in the U.S. suffer from debilitating pain in the trunk and extremities and 55% depend on opioids to ease their suffering. Opioid a ...

The USAF repair depots expend tremendous amounts of resources applying high technology thermal spray coatings to improve the performance of components and systems. In general, thermal spray application processes are complex, requires high cost equipment that are expensive to operate, need highly trained personnel and necessitate constant verification testing to ascertain the coatings meet requirem ...

ABSTRACT:Quantitative ablation recession rate measurements of heat shield surfaces are essential for evaluating the performance of heat shield materials. Currently, these measurements are limited to two-dimensional images that focus on the nose tip regression rate. For wedge testing, recession rate is determined by comparing pre- and post-test measurements, and therefore, recession rate as a funct ...

Tectus is developing the underlying technology required to deliver an augmented reality platform that enables information to be instantaneous, unobtrusive, and available hands-free. Tectus envisions a future in which technology becomes so small and discreet that it is practically invisible, and where people can access information that is visible only to them and invisible to everyone else. The tec ...