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ABSTRACT:Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP) and Joint Terminal Air Controller (JTAC) deploy with not only a significant amount of gear, but also a large work load in order to manage all of their responsibilities. As the battlefield becomes more digitized, it is forcing TACPs/JTACs (which we will refer to as just TACPs for brevity in the document) to deal with more information than their current s ...

ABSTRACT:We will design, prototype, and demonstrate the Unique Learning Trajectory (ULTRA) LMS. ULTRA will incorporate features from personalized medicine (PM). Two key PM features as applied to Air Force training are 1) a systems approach to capturing descriptors for each Airman and 2) big data analytics. Descriptors include person factors such as personality dispositions, gender, age, and intere ...

ABSTRACT:Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) RF systems are revolutionizing the RF communications industry by transforming historically problematic, heavily faded RF environments into rich, multi-channel media data rates enhanced by factors of 2-4X or more. Although the air-air datalink scenario does not enjoy the rich multipath environments that are exploited by commercial and military MIMO sy ...

ABSTRACT:The United States Air Force must increasingly provide supplies and munitions via airdrop to ground forces spread diffusely over large areas amid hostile enemy-held terrain. The calculation of the airdrop release point is crucial for ensuring safe and accurate delivery to designated landing sites. Wind and parafoil models have insufficient fidelity to accurately predict the landing locatio ...

ABSTRACT:The Common Embedded Vehicle Network Diagnostics Interface Hardware (CEVNDIH) program defines and implements an AS5643 optimized IEEE-1394-2008 implementation that includes changes, additions and diagnostic features. Designed with the objective of improving reliability, mission availability and improved affordability of the vehicle it is deployed in, the CEVNDIH removes unused IEEE-1394-20 ...

ABSTRACT:Software Defined Radios rely on digital FPGAs and/or high performance general purpose processors to realize flexible transmitter/receiver solutions that can adapt to various modulation schemes, waveforms, and even mission functions. However, achieving similar flexibility in the complementary RF Front End (RF-FE) poses a much bigger challenge. RF solutions are often designed to specific fr ...

ABSTRACT:Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) has been a central technology to the armed forces and the Air Force since their inception, and PNTs importance only stands to grow as we forge ahead in the 21st century. Just as todays state of the art PNT harness the quantum states of light in laser based sensors, the next levels of fidelity in both timing and inertial measurement units (IMUs) wil ...

ABSTRACT:Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) sensors are a key part of a developing mission area supported by the Air Force and the Intelligence Community to provide worldwide, persistent surveillance of missile launches and other operations. These sensors operate in the SWIR and MWIR spectral regions. While this spectral range has been valuable for decades to the meteorological community, it is a ...

ABSTRACT:There is a critical need to research and develop new ways to better determine what satellite orbital events are most critical to monitor and how such methods can be made scalable to serve the future needs of the operational system with a growing catalog of up to 500,000 objects. To support this endeavor, Numerica proposes the development of a new software suite for space object conjunctio ...

ABSTRACT:As the demand for on-board power and total energy-storage capacity in U.S. Air Force satellites has continued to increase, there has been an increasing trend towards the use of battery technologies with higher energy density potential. To this end, Li-ion batteries are now becoming the new industry standard for use as rechargeable secondary batteries in space vehicles. However, cycle-life ...