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By employing hive-like communications, adaptive sensor packages along with swarm-based collection and processing across all deployed ground, drone, and airframe platforms, a virtual, composable software environment (CSE) is formed for the rapid insertion of new capabilities into existing platforms. Forward operators can compose software processing chains (workflows) in response to changing or unex ...

The "troop-target" problem of automatic detection, tracking, and prediction of the formations of dismounted ground troops concealed in foliage, using FOPEN-GMTI radars introduces challenges well beyond those encountered in more conventional group-target problems. AD HOC troop formations are considerably more amorphous and unpredictable and they must be deduced from the constituent individuals. Y ...

Lunar night poses a significant thermal challenge to small, low power payloads, rovers and landers. Due to the slow rotation of the lunar surface, the environmental temperature drops to below 100K for approximately 14 earth days. In order to enable long duration science missions on the lunar surface it is necessary to maintain the electronics above survival temperature during the lunar night. nbsp ...

The overall objective of the project is the development of a sensor which we have named the Thermal Mapping and Measurement System (TMMS).nbsp; TMMS is a small, high performance, inexpensive, multi-band thermal infrared camera system, suitable for deployment in a variety of observational platforms. nbsp;This imaging system will be capable of mapping and measuring thermal features on the surface of ...

Flight Works is proposing to continue the development and demonstration of a high-performance Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) which enables dedicated missions to cislunar and deep space (such as Mars rendezvous) with small launchers like Virgin Orbitrsquo;s Launcher One and ABLrsquo;s RS-1. It features a full set of avionics flight-proven in LEO. These are to be modified for deep space missions ...

Space Policy Directive 1 directs NASA to return to the Moon. Artemis is Americarsquo;s flagship program to support this endeavor and could deliver the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface as soon as 2025. In preparation for a human return as well as directly support crewed operations, robotic platforms are necessary to learn more about the lunar environment, identify where resources a ...

Advanced new and upgraded synchrotron X-ray beamlines and sources are being constructed worldwide, and these facilities require fast new X-ray detectors to complement them and foster new scientific applications. In particular, new detector capabilities are desirable in the time domain, for the study of fast material and molecular kinetics, in the intensity domain for keeping up with brighter X-ray ...

This proposed SBIR builds upon Fibertek#39;s NASA-funded Laser Communications Terminal (CLCT) heritage to develop new ultra-low SWaP-C technology to create a CubeSat/SmallSat Lunar Network Optical Terminal (LNOT). The LNOT will offer similar capability to state of the art Lunar lasercom systems but at a fraction the size, mass, power and cost making the technology affordable and accessible to NASA ...

Motiv Space Systems (Motiv) proposes a novel integrated, distributed actuation system which operates in extreme environments of the Moon and Mars.nbsp; The Distributed Extreme Environments Drive System (DEEDS) is a complete drive actuation system for use across a broad spectrum of use cases including ISRU systems, robotics, payload off-loading systems, and mobile vehicles on the Lunar and Martian ...

In today’s Urban-Warfare Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) environment, current sensor platforms have a limited operational capability due to power consumption and recharge times. Many times these sensor packages are found to be unsuitable for many battlefield environments due strictly to their endurance limitations. Much of the research done to date has ...