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The information systems that US Air Force (USAF) bases rely upon for emergency response are not optimally architected to ensure the fastest and most effective responses. Currently, there is no communications link between the public and private entities who respond to emergency events. This occurs due to the diversity of policies and procedures at private venues such as military bases and the resou ...

Asylon develops and manufacturers UAS systems that automate flight operations including mission planning, take off/land, and power system battery swaps to create a fully automated hardware and software platform that can be configured for any number of ISR and inspection applications.

A comprehensive technical training software platform combining computer vision and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies can transform the human learning process and experience. Computer vision is leveraged to understand the physical environment, while AR is used to superimpose contextual information onto the physical world. We aim to provide software solution using AR tools and systems to address s ...

Designing actuation hardware for autonomous systems is challenging due to the high weight and power consumption of conventional actuators and clutches. Compared to existing clutch technologies, the electroadhesive clutches produced by ESTAT have exceptional holding force as a ratio of both mass and power consumption. They weigh 10x less and consumes 1000x less power than other clutching technologi ...

A fundamental challenge in United States Air Force (USAF) intelligence processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) is balancing the need to have human analysts in the PED process against the capacity limitations of human analysts. At the same time, military requirements demand an increase in quality & validity of metadata supporting AFPEO for Battle Management Operations C2 Division intellige ...

A small, rugged electronics and sensor package will be developed that will be installed within the housing of the Constant Speed Drive (CSD). The Variable Reluctance sensor that is used will monitor the tooth-passing speed of an existing input shaft gear. The micro-controller within the electronics package will count the revolutions and correlate the revolutions with statistics such as input shaft ...

PiAC proposed research effort and concept air vehicle, the “Air Steed� SQT (Super Quiet Tandem) helicopter, Model PA106 leverages unique attributes of the tandem rotor configuration with a lightly loaded and low tip-speed rotor with flapping freedom. The design and research to explore the low signature of this vehicle is by the formulation of the full-scale hardware. The Air Steed SQT ...

Linear friction welding (LFW) is a solid state joining process that is increasing attracting attention in aerospace industry, due its several advantages like absence of solidification defects, no requirement for external heat source, and mechanical and fatigue properties of the weld being equivalent or surpassing the parent material. The complexity of LFW process necessitates the need for developm ...

HelmetVue â„¢ is a helmet mounted thermal imaging system currently available to firefighters and first responders to provide visibility in total darkness and smoke-filled environments. In Phase I of this SBIR Sage Technologies was able to market the existing commercial system HelmetVue â„¢, to the Air Force, and identify Air Force stakeholders that will take part in a Phase II. In this Pha ...

In order to meet the resolution and revisit requirements, the need exists to expand the Theater Weather Imaging and Cloud Characterization Sensor (TWICCS) design to twice the number of channels - the Enhanced TWICCS (E-TWICCS) design. The E-TWICCS instrument described in this technical proposal shall be a pathfinder-to-operations instrument developed to verify that a push-broom imager can partiall ...