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Imagine the number of buildings on every Air Force Base around the world and then imagine having to physically inspect every roof in order to assess damage and prioritize repairs based on the lifespan remaining. The current method of physically inspecting roofs is extremely ineffective, expensive, and dangerous. Statistics from Joint Base Charleston show that the current roof inspection program at ...

USAF Chief of Staff General Goldfein has taken aim at revitalizing USAF squadrons promoting the Air Force’s ability to continue to adapt and respond faster than our potential adversaries as the greatest challenge over the next 30 years. Parallel Wireless leverages a mature TRL-9 COTS product offering 5G-WIS-CPAD to make better use of innovative, sustainable wireless networks. Parallel Wirel ...

Combustion stability is an ongoing challenge for military gas turbine engines. Instabilities such as augmentor screech involve high-speed, 3D flow and flame structures. The mechanisms that control some combustion instabilities are poorly understood. Diagnostics that elucidate the mechanism(s) of combustion instability are needed to increase the robustness of current engines and to develop improved ...

Ablative coatings for hypersonics are tested at facilities such as the AEDC Range G and the Holloman High Speed Test Track. A test article is accelerated to velocity up to 18,000 ft/s in a relevant atmosphere and travels up to 10,000 ft. It is important to measure the coating erosion at multiple discrete points along the trajectory to characterize non-linear ablation response. Existing measurement ...

The Air Force RamGun test facility exposes candidate structural joints to hydrodynamic ram, simulating the effect of artillery impact on an aircraft fuel bay. A projectile launched by a gas gun impacts a water filled chamber to create a pressure wave that impinges on a test article. In the existing facility, the pressure pulse is noisy and irregular, making test results difficult to interpret cons ...

We will integrate our existing commercially viable UAV forensics capabilities into and adjacent to Medusa to enable the USAF to better collect and analyze CUAS test and operational data throughout the kill chain - acknowledge, detect, identify, locate, track, disable as well as investigate and integrate. This effort will also enhance Medusa C2 and provide an end-to-end use case for Medusa and beyo ...

This effort will modify an existing solution--the integration of a collaboration platform and a cyber range management platform--to provide a USAF cyber wing with tools and data tailored to their unique requirements. It will be the first such modification tailored to a unit's specific requirements, making this effort a proof-of-concept for future tailored tools built for other units.

"Mentis Sciences Inc. proposes to develop a high temperature structural resistive foam (HTSRF) intended for various current and future Air Force Applications. Current, qualified structural foams are not rated for extreme environments >1500°F, and need to be replaced frequently due to ablation. This proposal presents an approach to design and develop a HTSRF that will meet application parameters ...

Next-generation aircraft thermal management systems require advanced compact, lightweight condensers to reduce the overall size and mass of high-capacity vapor compression systems. To this end, Creare proposes to develop an ultra-compact, lamination-stack condenser with built-in air flow headers to substantially reduce the overall condenser assembly size and mass. The condenser has a unique config ...

Ablative coatings for hypersonics are tested at facilities such as the AEDC Range G and the Holloman High Speed Test Track. A test article is accelerated to velocity up to 18,000 ft/s in a relevant atmosphere and travels up to 10,000 ft. It is important to measure the coating erosion at multiple discrete points along the trajectory to characterize non-linear ablation response.Existing measurement ...