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Visual Landing Aids on air capable ships and aircraft carrier flight decks are required for night and/or low visibility aircraft operations for general lighting, navigation, flight deck, and special purposes. Future aircraft are expected to have hotter exhaust that could threaten the integrity of these lighting fixtures. During Phase 1 and Phase 2, a new form fit functional converter assembly, wit ...

The output of the traditional optics fibers produce a Gaussian-shaped output due to the internal mode structure. Moreover, the output from traditional optical fibers contains spatial non-uniformities that are undesirable for certain applications. Many advanced applications require a “flat-top” intensity distribution of the laser beam as it produces uniform illumination and minimizes speckle. T ...

The overall technical objective of the Phase II effort is to develop a FUN3D-based adjoint framework using the Non-Intrusive Least Squares Shadowing (NI-LSS) for sensitivity analysis of complex configurations when exposed to buffet loads produced by chaotic flows. The FUN3D-based adjoint framework will be capable of generating buffet loads sensitivities with respect to both shape and sizing design ...

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC) has developed a low-cost passive-RF-based system that generates high-accuracy tracking observations using the RF signals broadcast by active satellites. In Phase I, RRC demonstrated that this system can track active deep-space satellites 24x7 in all weather, that it can distinguish closely spaced objects (CSOs) by their different RF emissions, and that the resulti ...

Missiles experience a wide range of thermal and mechanical environments due to the large variety of flight profiles. Since the missile radome is often the aerodynamic leading edge, it undergoes significant thermal and mechanical loading. The radome must survive the dynamic pressure loading, thermal shock and environmental erosion from airborne particulates (rain / sand) while performing as an elec ...

Development of passive optical fibers and fiber-based components for transport and distribution of laser energy between optical components and around an optical platform would be a great advance in laser and optical system design. Particularly compelling would be fibers and fiber-based functional elements capable of transmitting laser power with low loss over a wide wavelength range from UV to LWI ...

Advanced R&D breakthroughs in integrated photonics, in parallel with the advent of the Advanced Institute for Manufacturing: Photonics (AIM Photonics), have now made photonic integrated circuits (PIC) manufacturable. Presently, however, PICs are limited primarily to a small wavelength region (near 1550nm) dictated by telecom needs, or rely on glass waveguide technology that does not permit compact ...

Smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming Air Force users’ primary digital tool, overtaking computers and desk phones as their go-to devices. However, these commercial devices, which are carried with users everywhere, are susceptible to being comprised by overreaching applications and bad actors. Privoro’s SafeCase platform, commercially available since November 2018, an inde ...

The overall goal of this project is to develop an in-process defect monitoring and correction technique for additive manufacturing (AM) of aluminum alloy to improve repeatability for geometric dimensions, material properties, and quality. In Phase I, Sentient collaborated with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and successfully completed all proposed tasks demonstrating two key capabili ...

Rocket motor propellant could react violently when struck by bullets or fragments of exploding weapons. Currently-available armor designs completely prevent threat penetration but are about four times too heavy; their installation on a mobile missile launcher would make the vehicle unable to conduct its mission. The armor design can be made lighter if fragments can penetrate and strike the motor w ...