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Extensive testing at substantial cost is a major part of military propulsion development programs. These programs involve numerous component and engine tests aimed at producing safe and reliable engines. Despite these efforts, engines still experience unexpected failures. Geometric variability of parts within design tolerances is a well-known source of uncertainty in overall reliability. USAF sust ...

Missile attitude in flight can be difficult to determine from ground-based images due to image resolution, lighting, object occlusion, and poor contrast. To address the need, UHV and UTARI propose a fusion based approach of 2 well proven methods to solve this problem. First, UHV Technologies will implement their existing innovative and state of the art machine learning methods for image segmentati ...

We propose a mesh network system that can be deployed onto the lunar surface either with or, in advance of a new landing, either crewed or robotic, that can provide the following services: terminal navigation and landing positioning, even in the possible presence of hostile jamming or spoofing; local PNT for astronauts and robots over an area surrounding the landing site; communications relay over ...

There is a need to increase engine time on wing of aircraft engines to eliminate $1.1 billion in in operational and sustainment costs across 2,823 Air Force aircraft, while increasing availability of aircraft to assist the USAF in its mission to fly, fight, and win. Sensatek Propulsion Technology, Inc. in collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University proposes to assist the USAF ...