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Small multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are well suited for sensing and situational awareness missions in closed, confined, and constrained (C3) environments. However, autonomous navigation of small VTOL UAVs is very challenging in C3 environments. Current state of the art navigation methods uses vision and LIDAR to build a map, localize, and plan paths. These methods tend to be computati ...

There is a need to improve the understanding of physical and chemical processes involved in the evolution of chemical warfare agent (CWA) simulant aerosols and vapors that are interacting with combustion, deflagration, and detonation products. However, the measurement of aerosols and vapors is very challenging because of limited knowledge of the photophysics at varying temperatures and pressures, ...

Seismic, hydro acoustic, and infrasonic (SHI) analyses possess many desirable properties, such as long-distance wave propagation and attributable spectral characteristics. They have been, by large, relegated to capturing massive explosions, earthquakes, bolides, and space-bound rocket launches. Although machine learning techniques have been employed on various military and commercial projects, rar ...

The Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler and Analyzer (RASA) is a completely automated monitoring system that detects airborne radioactive particles and is one of the detection systems used in the U.S. and global International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) to detect nuclear detonations. Mainstream proposes develop a high-efficiency cyclone separa ...

The increasing complexity of devices, reduced budgets and accelerated program timelines, requires a new approach to predicting radiation of integrated circuit (IC) designs. Most approaches to date require gate level analysis and do not scale easily to device level calculations, leading to methods that are note practical under most program timeline and cost budgets. Previously, DfR Solutions has de ...

TDA Research, Inc. (TDA), designed, built, and tested a dense array of 100 very low cost infrasonic sensors. Due to their low cost (1/100x-1/10x the cost of other infrasound sensors), they can be economically deployed in very large numbers; such large arrays can gather more information than a few expensive sensors. They are sensitive from 0.1 Hz - 100 Hz down to 0.08 Pa. We tested the sensors in s ...

The MDA relies on complex simulations to test and enhance capabilities of the ballistic missile defense system. This requires extensive simulation and analysis of results. As simulations become more advanced, they produce more data. It is essential to begin now to develop improved techniques to manage this increased data and make it more accessible for analysis. Simulation data must be analyzed to ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is currently producing hundreds of terabytes of simulation data per year and will soon be producing petabytes every year. A system is needed to ingest, host, and analyze both batch and streaming simulation data sources. These simulations could represent tests at a variety of locations, using a diverse set of hardware, and at a significant range of scales. Analysis ...

Seed Innovations applies our experience in framework development, modeling and simulation, automatic code generation, and software architecture to accomplish the research for the SBIR topic: Model Level Integrated Simulation Architecture for Collaborative Development. Through the research on this project, Seed Innovations designs and develops a prototype system, the Flexible Integrated Simulation ...

Traditional CPUs are falling short to meet high performance real-time processing needs of modern sensor technology (imaging, video, signals intelligence are critical needs for satellite image analysis and sensor control). There is a growing need to deploy GPUs along with modern sensors in the LEO and MEO (inner Van Allen Belt) and survive the radiation effects for 2-5 years. IAI’s solution will ...