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Accelerator program – a 13 week program of business development assistance and training for small businesses.

BETA Technologies is developing a 600-1400lb payload, 180-250 nm range eVTOL aircraft for non-defense passenger and cargo service. Its high level architecture emphasizes simplicity in order to maximize reliability and operational efficiency. Direct drive electric motors eliminate all gearboxes. 100% air-cooling eliminates liquid cooling systems. Dedicated hover and cruise mode propulsion systems e ...

A networked avian radar system is proposed for bird strike mitigation. A team consisting of Applied Radar as well as partners AscentXYZ and and Elsis will work with the 6th Air Mobility command U.S. Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard Team (BASH) stakeholders to customize the Avian Radar solution and provide a demonstration to prove its versatility and improvements over current AF equipment.

Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP) require a method to view georectified Cursor on Target (CoT) situational awareness (SA) data from end user devices, such as Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK), to rapidly understand battlefield conditions and make quick decisions. To date, there is no acceptable combination of software and hardware that can work in a combat environment and meet ACC TACP require ...

Oceanit proposes to first is to use radiative transfer techniques pioneered for astrophysics, instead of Monte Carlo simulation. In particular, we used a variant of the Bohm-Vitense method, which expresses the solution as a weighted sum of basis functions, allowing us to convert the radiative transfer equation into a set of linear equations that we can solve with standard linear algebra methods. S ...

Oceanit proposes to design and develop a plug-and-play cyber sand box laboratory with safeguards to allow testing of computer/electronic devices against cyber attacks.

ILLUSTRO is a hardware/software package which fuses Nalu’s single photon detection technology into SM’s cost-off-the-shelf (COTS) space qualified computing architectures. ILLUSTRO aims to detect lasing events, instantaneously, with a low SWaP detector architecture that can be easily integrated into large national assets and future small-sat USAF architectures. Such a capability would ...

With recent programs that enable the airborne launch and recovery of UAVs, there are opportunities to provide aerial threat assessment in difficult to deploy areas. A valuable enhancement to the airborne-deployed UAV system are sensors that detect invisible threats such as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) weapons. The Intelligent Plume Mapping Payload, proposed by ...

During the overhaul of any gas turbine engine, rotating components must be balanced. In addition to the balancing machine, a key component in the balancing process is the fixturing used to interface the part being balanced with the balancing machine. Much of the fixturing currently employed by the Air Force is antiquated technology, incapable of reliably meeting the balancing demands of modern ...

Via the utilization of an innovative and unique sensor technology integrated into military condition-based maintenance monitoring systems, our company proposes to assist the US Air Force to enhance its monitoring and modeling capabilities for the benefit of military assets corrosion analysis & maintenance. The AFRL states that “Knowing the concentrations of potential corrosive factors in a given ...