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The USAF is developing high energy laser weapon systems for defense of critical assets.Weather conditions in general have familiar effects on optical propagation.Even with clear weather conditions, the distribution of optical turbulence has a primary influence on laser system performance.Modern weather data cubes provide accessible databases for archival storage.We propose to analyze innovative te ...

The Air Force is seeking a prime power system using rechargeable thermal batteries (TBs) suitable for airborne systems.TBs are attractive prime power sources due to their ability to reliably provide high peak power and very long shelf life.However, they are one-time use and have a relatively short life (< 1 hr).A rechargeable thermal battery would enable applications requiring high peak power whil ...

Our innovative solution is a multi-level approach which: a) provides useful information in real-time and more in-depth information on the timescale of a satellite overpass, b) is robust to the unique character of satellite imagery, and c) degrades gracefully when information is incomplete or unavailable. We believe all information can be beneficial, so that even if the attitude cannot be determine ...

With new weapons such as high-power microwaves and nuclear-tipped hypersonic cruise missiles now being tested and potentially deployed by Russia and China, and the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, the Air Force requires aeroshell materials with improved EMI/EMP and HEMP shielding effectiveness (SE) and radiation hardening. The proposed research by Goodman Technologies, Nuclear Radiation Hard ...

The challenge is to reduce the effort of integrating sensing component models into System of System (SoS) simulations by streamlining integration of component models into a master Simulation Environment (SIMEN) which can be used to conduct SoS studies.Stellar Science has previously developed and fielded a number of government-owned sensing model integration systems based on modular architectures, ...

The overall goal of this effort is to support high-power SmallSats by maturing resilient thermal control technologies. Technologies include both Advanced Thermal Model (ATM) software and Resilient Thermal Control (RTC) hardware. The ATM software utilizes a reduced-order modeling (ROM) approach to greatly reduce thermal modeling overhead. New features will be added to the ATM software to enhance it ...

Applied Technology Associates (ATA) proposes a cost-effective solution by developing a robust effective military position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capability with the addition of a military-unique augmentation to GPS.The Military PNT Augmentation (MPNTA) Phase II effort will include the use of Electronic Warfare (EW) techniques (frequency hopping, frequency shift from GPS, wartime reserve, et ...

This SBIR Phase 2 project will continue the development of a Radiation Tolerant, VITA74-compliant platform for C4ISR applications for small spacecraft. The small spacecraft industry has been successful in using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components to enable low-cost high-performance space missions. The drawback of this approach is that it sacrifices the reliability of the spacecraft, limitin ...

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Advanced Optical Technologies, Inc. (AOT) will build a new type of optical crystallographic NDT sensor under a Phase II SBIR contract with the AFRL Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, WPAFB, OH. The new sensor, a laser polarimeter implementing AOT's patented polarization-classification imaging (PCI) techniques, will be the first to allow affordable quantitative grain-orientation imaging over la ...