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The objective of this proposal is to develop dual-use, real-time simulation technologies that leverage Department of Defense (DoD) High Level Architecture (HLA) concepts to enable advanced technology demonstrations to be conducted in a laboratory generated synthetic battlespace. Radiance proposes to integrate the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Threatlab with the Integrated Demonstrations ...

Saffron Technology, Inc., www.saffrontech.com, is the leader in the application of associative memory technology in cognitive computing applications. This work will identify and solve the computational architecture issues associated with creation of a hardware associative computing element and its integration into emerging cognitive computing architectures. This phase one effort will lead to a d ...

During large software development projects, assuring tamper-proof source code is often difficult or impossible. Currently, many projects are vulnerable to attacks-both insider and external. The Software Protection Initiative (SPI) is charged with the task of ensuring all modifications to a project's source code can be accounted for using a Software Pedigree Analyzer (SPA). The SPA provides a me ...

Modern turbine engine lifing approaches compute damage accumulation in real time based on actual usage, substantially increasing the useable life over a-priori cycle or hour limits based on assumed worst-case operating conditions. However, these new algorithms are complex, consume substantial computing resources, and generate enormous amounts of data that must be archived to allow data mining and/ ...

Effective collective protection fabrics must have a reliable closure system. During our Phase I Work Plan, Sigma-K began developing a Hermetic Textile Closure Hardware (HATCH) system. The HATCH combines both a magnetic and geometric self locking mechanism that will provide a hermetic seal when closed. Our current Phase I successes include developing self closing samples that can provide a hermetic ...

Software tools will be developed that define the underlying phenomenology of greatest importance to radar CID performance, allowing a trace back to the responsible target scattering physics. The proposed research entails development of algorithms that identify the target-sensor orientations (poses) of most relevance for classifying targets of interest to AFRL. These target-sensor poses will then b ...

Information-exploitation algorithms are proposed for Air Force sensing and weapons systems, motivated by the inevitable variability and differences seen between conventional training and testing data. Adaptive feedback is proposed, yielding an active-learning framework, wherein the algorithm actively participates in the learning process, by asking questions of the scene under test. The goal of act ...

The purpose of the proposed effort is to study the feasibility of developing an analysis system that will optimize technological parameters within the Integrated Concept Analysis Tool (ICET) at the Air Force Research Lab's Munitions Directorate (AFRL/MN). The goal is to leverage the capabilities of advanced optimization codes such as Sandia Laboratory's Dakota Project by using the metric's collec ...

The purpose of this project is to design a low cost pulser that can produce a 100kV pulse with a continuous repetition rate of 2kHz. The objective device will have the size, mass and reliability to be compatible with use in aircraft. In contrast, current pulsers tend to be bulky, expensive, have limited lifetimes, and require substantial cooling systems. Time Domain Corporation (TDC) intends to ...

To properly measure (and understand) the performance of a standoff detector, properties of the challenge cloud must be known. Meteorological models, such as HPAC and VLSTRACK, have proven to be reasonably good tools for predicting cloud properties. However, a problem with these tools is that they deliver ensemble averages and may not describe a specific cloud to the detail required. The Dugway ...