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To explore and establish Urban Air Mobility (UAM) viability, researchers need to assess vertiport designs and the operational concepts that aim to maximize throughput of aircraft, passengers, and cargo while maintaining safety. Many of these future vertiports, especially those in urban areas, will have highly constrained airspace and limited area for surface operations. To understand how to create ...

NASA has identified a clear and pressing need for education of both local decision makers and the local flying and nonflying public to enable AAM operations to commence in a timely manner. The goal of this research effort is to develop a robust and cost-conscious capability to support local organizations and local decision makers with materials that support community education, engagement, and out ...

"SIFT will develop Plan Recognition for Multi-Source Reasoning Over Sources and Events (PRIMROSE) to provide high-performance, probabilistic plan recognition to DTRA, addressing the intelligence analysis problem of information overload. PRIMROSE will perform high-performance plan recognition and integrate the results into JIPOE-based intelligence processes. In PRIMROSE: (1) the YAPPR2 plan r ...

MOST LASER SCANNING SYSTEMS ARE MECHANICAL, UTILIZING A MOTOR TO ROTATE A PRISM, MIRROR, OR HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING. SUCH MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE OR RELATIVELY LARGE SIZE AND MASS. THERE IS A NEED FOR A SOLID STATE SCANNING DEVICE WHICH WOULD OFFER BENEFITS OF REDUCED SIZE AND MASS, NO MOVING PARTS, IMPROVED RELIABILITY, LOW COSTS, AND LOW POWERREQUIREMENT. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED OPTICS (I ...

This SBIR will study the application of a brain machine interface (BMI) to enable crew to remotely operate and monitor robots from inside a flight vehicle, habitat and/or during an extra-vehicular activity (EVA). The goal is to improve robot operator productivity, situational awareness, and effectiveness. With the application of a BMI technology an astronaut in an extravehicular suit could grea ...

This SBIR project seeks to develop a miniature sensor for mass measurement of size-classified aerosols. A cascade impactor will be used to classify aerosol sample into 8 uniform bins on a logarithmic scale, covering an aerodynamic size range of 0.01 to 10 microns. In each of the 8 stages aerosols will be deposited on a MEMS microbalance that will record aerosol mass in real-time. The proposed devi ...

This program will develop an innovative Hybrid Navigation (HYNAV) system using multiple energy band observations of variable celestial sources. The concept creates photon measurements across each source observed in unique energy bands where signals are most beneficial, and blends the diverse signals into a single spacecraft position and velocity solution. Previous work by ASTER Labs has demonstrat ...

This program proposes to design and evaluate novel technology of X-ray navigation for augmentation and increased capability of high data-rate spacecraft communications. NASA's current concept for an integrated radio and optical communications (iROC) system is being developed to provide communication technology that does not constrain the science yield of their deep space missions. iROC requirement ...

Power electronics is a core enabling technology for virtually all electronic systems. Power density, conversion efficiency, and reliability of power converters represent the three most critical requirements for aerospace, defense and many commercial applications alike. High temperature and radiation tolerant, wide bandgap materials, such as GaN and SiC, have offered a number of technological break ...

The proposed novel program will use measurements of high-energy photon output from celestial gamma-ray sources to design a new, unique navigation system for a deep space CubeSat demonstration. An integrated CubeSat design will be developed to demonstrate the performance and feasibility of the Gamma-ray source Localization-Induced Navigation and Timing, or "GLINT", technology and software developed ...