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The ability to predict the ignitibility potential of a combustor at various operating conditions is not practical at this time due to the complexity of this process. Ignition within a gas turbine combustor is dependent on various parameters; including spark (or plasma) energy, flow conditions, fuel/air ratio, and fuel spray density. All these parameters must be properly predicted in order to effec ...

To obtain spectrum dominance the U.S. Army needs to make use of all the Radio Frequency assets on their Size Weight and Power constrained platforms. Thus, it is critical that the radar apertures can also perform other tasks such as communications and ESM. To do so efficiently requires the multiplexing of multiple modes onto the aperture, overcoming radar-hardware limitations such as the use of non ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to design and implement the WISDOM (Wideband HF IP System for Command and Control Operation Management) system that includes a toolbox of network algorithms to increase the robustness and reliability of Wideband High Frequency (WBHF) communication networks while optimizing throughput, overhead and delay. Innovations for WISDOM focus on the WBHF radio cap ...

In the current asymmetric threat environment, it is critical for the DoD intelligence community to develop ability to automatically integrate information and data from Multi-INT sources in a complex environment to produce a dynamic, comprehensive, and accurate activity based intelligence. In particular, there is a need to develop a proper big data enabled analytic system by integrating and associa ...

Phase II prototypes and demonstrates a Command Post Antenna Remoting System (CARS) that can remote antennas for up to six radios in these frequency bands: HF (1.6-30 MHz), Low VHF (30-88 MHz), and UHF (225-450 MHz). The planned radios are the PRC-150/160 (HF); RT-1523 ASIP (SINCGARS/Low VHF), and PRC-117G (UHF), although many other radio types can interoperate with CARS. Each antenna remoting link ...

Current airborne sensors produce very large volumes of data, but the airborne battle managers aboard BMC2 platforms do not have the appropriate analytics to process this massive data. Lack of appropriate analytics represents a missed opportunity to extract additional and timely actionable intelligence, especially considering the fact that, in most cases, data bandwidth to the command center is lim ...

Voxtel proposes to develop, characterize, and demonstrate a coherent-ladar optimized readout integrated circuit (ROIC) consisting of 40-micron pixel elements, including circuits designed for snapshot-integration operation as short as 250 ns, formatted in a 32 x 32 array capable of readout speeds of 1 M frames per second. In Phase I, the coherent ladar ROIC architecture was developed and specificat ...

The topic of vulnerabilities in machine learning system utilized in the cyber defense domain has not been sufficiently explored. Compared to the counterparts in other domains, the attacks to machine learning systems in the cyber defense domain are more complicated, dynamic and associated with higher cost. With recent deployment of machine learning systems for the network security applications, it ...

Insider threat poses one of the most problematic cyber challenges facing the warfighter today. This threat to Air Force assets is particularly insidiousas trusted individuals have easy access to sensitive and classified information. Galois, Inc. has developed a multi-layered attack inference engine called ADIDRUS, originally designed to help UAVs fight through cyber attacks. ADIDRUS continuously m ...

Conventional vehicle armor has evolved considerably over the years, including homogeneous plates, composite materials, and reactive substrates. Variable orientations have also been implemented, including curved, sloped, angled, and spaced plates. A common characteristic among these conventional armor solutions is that they are static and incapable of changing in response to local threats. Adding a ...