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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are considered suitable for use in components for high-strength structural composites used in spacecrafts. However, structurally similar boron nitride (BN) nanotubes that promise both mechanical and electronic superiority over CNTs have not been studied in great detail so far due to the absence of facile preparative techniques. BN nanotubes exhibit good mechanical strength, ...

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Metron Aviation, Inc. builds a tool for Traffic Flow Management (TFM) that integrates existing and emerging technologies in the areas of modeling and operations analysis to enable the evaluation of proposed TFM initiatives (Figure 1). The key innovation of this effort is the integration of the Post Operations Evaluation Tool (POET) and the Future ATC Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) in order to ac ...

Leveraging extensive experience from major airspace re-design projects, Metron develops a software system to model the NAS-wide environmental consequences of new airspace concepts. The NAS Environmental Impact Model (NASEIM) is innovative in the following ways:(1) It solves the NAS-wide data-integration problem; (2) It solves the data-transformation problem for new airspace concepts involving new ...

The Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) concept envisions a dramatic change in demand on National Airspace System (NAS) resources: a significantly increased number of flights operating as needed on Point-to-Point (PTP) routes with smaller aircraft. In addition to the increased demand on the NAS, the dynamic, ?on-demand?, nature of the SATS concept will present even greater challenges to th ...

Mission operations for the International Space Station are based on the traditional concept of a primary fixed facility where most of the mission operations tasks are performed, supported by backroom staff of hundreds of engineers. This approach is resource intensive and expensive. The goal of this SBIR is to develop and deploy the technologies necessary to enable on-demand mission operations supp ...

Phoenix Integration proposes a Phase I SBIR project to commercialize the BLISS methodology within the popular integration and optimization framework, ModelCenter?. This work will be significant, because a powerful and flexible algorithm will be provided to industry in a user-friendly and open integration environment. The research and modifications required to ModelCenter will revolutionize the way ...

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This proposal describes the adaptation of an aircraft based runway incursion advisory and alerting system for general aviation applications. PathProx is a runway incursion advisory and alerting system developed by Rannoch Corporation for air carrier operations. The work proposed under Phase I of this SBIR includes the definition of the developmental needs for adapting the PathProx conflict detecti ...