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Preserving mission objectives despite setbacks is paramount as space becomes more contested and congested. Satellites must be resilient such that they can respond quickly to a changing environment and continue to provide services. A key requirement for th

The USAF has identified a need to rapidly predict the safe time between the door being opened on a weapons cavity and the release of the stored device so the store does not rise back into the cavity or exit with an undesirable pitch or yaw. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) runs for a sample problem are provided as input. This proposed effort uses unique tools and techniques developed at Stellar S ...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Urban / Advanced Air Mobility (UAM/AAM) are rapidly emergent dual-use technology areas that will revolutionize Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial applications in areas such as delivering goods and supplies, disaster recovery and relief efforts, search and rescue, base security, air taxi services, and operations from small or unimproved areas . To enable ...

The need to preserve mission objectives despite setbacks is paramount as space becomes more contested and more congested. Satellites must be resilient such that they can respond quickly to a changing environment and continue to provide services. A key requirement for this resilience is faster detection and recovery from faults, which in turn requires a change in how faults are monitored and correc ...

The Air Force, in its 2030 Science and Technology Strategy, emphasizes the need for “a collaborative and autonomous network of systems and effects”, and “distributed sensing across domains.” Distributed, collaborative systems require complex control algorithms. Introducing autonomy requires formal guarantees of system safety and correctness in order to deploy in an assured, trustworthy fas ...

  Whisper Aero proposes investigating a novel electric propulsor designed to achieve ultra low noise, high specific power, and high efficiency both at static and high speed cruise conditions. These capabilities are critical to enable eVTOL aircraft to achieve scaled market use in urban areas, and the wide breadth of mission applications across commercial, public use and military aircraft. The eQ ...

  Whisper Aero proposes building a flexible acoustic framework designed to be user-friendly, that enables engineers to easily connect multi-fidelity aerodynamic tools to multiple acoustic models. Though noise is a significant constraint in military and consumer missions, OEMs are still struggling to design for acoustics due to difficulties connecting multi-fidelity, multiple paradigm aerodynamics ...

Polyimide (PI) is an important engineering polymer with excellent thermomechanical, electrical and chemical resistant properties at high temperatures. However, melt processing of polyimide is difficult. At present, it is limited to filmic structure or compression molding. This proposal posits two concepts to improve melt processibility of PI. From prior research, we demonstrated 1) imidi ...

Homogeneous software applications employed throughout NORTHCOM pose a huge opportunity for adversaries to scale exploits within the defense ecosystem. Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) applications specifically pose a huge attack vector due to the large reliance on open source components containing publicly disclosable vulnerabilities. ARMS is providing solutions around novel zero vulnerability technol ...

In the wake of the Hypersonic race in the defense and civilian sectors, the need for new generation of heat shields that offers weight and cost reduction while maintaining performance is of absolute necessity. This work proposes a new generation of hybrid