Award Data

ABSTRACT: Computer-mediated synchronous communication (chat) is becoming an increasingly important tool for gaining and maintaining situation awareness in military operations. Our primary goal in this project is to investigate the ways in which text extraction technology can help in the kind of C2 Chat setting exemplified by Air Operations Centers'(AOC) dynamic targeting cells (DTC). The dif ...

ABSTRACT: In today"s war environment, leaders are generating more Requests for Information than ever to support the fight and the MTI sensors providing beneficial information to service these requests are growing in number and capability. Thus analysts must have utilities at their disposal capable of interrogating this immense amount of MTI information in an efficient and effective manner to sho ...

ABSTRACT: Analysts must determine the proper response to an alert produced by an anomaly detection system. Currently, analysts must manually generate queries to other intelligence sources and then search by hand through the results to find evidence relevant to the alert. This is a slow and error-prone process. Analysts may create flawed queries or miss the relevance of results. SIPRIA is a sy ...

ABSTRACT: Automated extraction of event location information enables intelligence analysts to rapidly visualize information contained in large volumes of unstructured textual data. Although natural language text analysis software already has the ability to extract locations to some degree, there still exist deficiencies that we will address in this project. We will expand geocoding to incl ...

We propose the development of a two color LED array emitting simultaneously at 2 and 8 microns suitable for use in infrared scene projection applications. The relative intensity of the two colors can be independently controlled. The Phase I effort will involve the fabrication and test of a 6x6 array, but the technology is scalable (we have recently demonstrated single-color 3.3 um LED arrays of 51 ...

ABSTRACT: The electrical power system (EPS) for spacecraft generally is comprised of a solar array system for collecting solar power when exposed to sunlight and onboard batteries for storing power that can be used when the satellite is in eclipse. While this method has been used for decades, the use of batteries also has some disadvantages that significantly affect the design of the spacecraft. ...

Energy Research Company (ERCo) proposes the development of an instrument to improve laser-decoating processes through novel real-time control technology. The technology allows for precise and selective removal of the desired coating layer while preserving any underlying coatings and the base material. Because of the real-time nature of the proposed device, using the instrument will not result in ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force has been placing increased emphasis on probabilistic methods for predictions of design reliability of fracture critical engine components, including metallic turbine engine blades and disks. Current state-of-the-practice for these methods typically include a significant amount of conservatism in crack initiation and fatigue crack growth and inspection design criteria due ...

This Phase I SBIR will provide a flexible and expandable system for the simulation of crack propagation in structures focusing on turbine engine metallic components. The work here will build off of years of work already invested in developing such a system. The software will be designed to be easily incorporated into existing design processes by directly utilizing CAD design geometry and existing ...

Thermal energy storage for load smoothing can be beneficial in applications having large transient heat load compared to steady-state heat rejection. Laser weapons and high-power microwave generators are examples where TES can help. Ammoniated complex compound systems can provide heat absorption due to exothermic dissociation of the complex compound. Very high energy density and power density T ...