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Optical characterization of materials has remained an active area of research for many decades. With advancements in light sources, detectors, microscopy, or compact spectroscopic analysis, a renewed effort is made to apply these technologies to biological tissue characterization. There is a current need to characterize the details of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with different mat ...

Inspection of turbine engine components is an essential part of standard maintenance procedures to ensure the long-term health of aircraft engines. Existing techniques are time-consuming and labor-intensive because they require point-by-point scanning and/or extensive data processing. As a result, these inspections are not cost-effective to conduct, despite being a critical part of long-term susta ...

The call for increased situational awareness has led to the development of a sea-of-sensors, designed to provide real-time data from the battlefield. However, innovation in battlefield data management has been slow to catch up and is now on the verge of being crippled by a contested electromagnetic spectrum. To this end, Dr. Hamed Dalir from Omega Optics Inc. in collaboration with Prof. Ray T. Che ...

Ascendant Engineering Solutions (AES) proposes to enhance their proven MSGLPS 5� gimbal technology with an improved imaging system capable of resolving at NIIRS 9 performance levels. The existing Gimbal technology provides a Compact Launch Tube (CLT) compatible inertially stable platform on which a high-resolution / long focal-length EO camera will be employed. AES will leverage a core fami ...

An integrated measurement sensor for carbon-carbon (C-C) structures is needed for testing in arc-jet facilities to meet testing needs for future hypersonic flight systems. This work continues development on a measurement suite capable of surviving the long duration glide phase characteristic of hypersonic vehicles. A fast-response pressure sensor, an instrumented temperature measurement plug, and ...

We propose a resilient silver flake based metallization technology directly printable onto multijunction solar cells. The metallization will be loaded with carbon nanotubes to improve crack resilience. We will demonstrate that we can maintain connectivity (< 5% performance degradation) of a printed front-side metal layer across a gap up to 30 microns. In Phase I, we demonstrated metal line resisti ...

Military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) systems are critical elements in DoD’s vision for a Global Information Grid Bandwidth Extension (GIG-BE). Modeled after the commercial Internet, the GIG will provide global connectivity to support a broad range of military user applications. Commercial networking technologies, coupled with military-unique radio communications equipment, enable t ...

Nanohmics is developing an innovative system for restoring atmospheric turbulence-degraded imagery in real-time. The Real-time Online GPU Enabled Turbulence Compensation (ROGUE-TC) system applies fast Multiframe Blind Deconvolution methods to ground observations of space objects using a custom, standalone GPU workstation consisting of commercial off-the-shelf components. ROGUE-TC algorithms make e ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a fast-growing technology that allows rapid fabrication of complex parts and is currently being explored as an alternative, cost-effective manufacturing method by several different industries, including the military. While plastic AM is mature, the barriers for adoption of the technology, particularly for military applications, are significant. Parts created by plast ...

In this Phase II project, WW Technology Group (WWTG) will develop a scalable and powerful framework and foundation for Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) supported by Big Data in a streamlined software toolchain. The approach uses an established front end that can consume a wide variety of data types and formats found in engineering documents. A series of Big Data analytic methods are used to r ...