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On-orbit assets are essential for current and future mission success; however there are numerous types of attack that threaten their safety. To protect these assets and ensure their continued operation, these threats must be detected as quickly as possible so that appropriate responses can be taken. The objective of the proposed work is to develop a prototype event detection system that demonstr ...

Vita Inclinata has developed a solution to address the systemic capabilities gap in rotary wing suspended load operations- uncontrolled cable motion. Under the 183-001 Phase I effort , the team identified DoD service-wide Search and Rescue (SAR), Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), and sling load teams who detailed the severity of external load rotary wing rescue missions due to non e ...

Modern net-centric warfare produces and consumes a tremendous amount of data. This data is produced by multiple systems over time and is in different forms and formats. This can easily become overwhelming to an analyst, who must be able to quickly determine the impact of anomalous events or changing trends. New methods are needed to further filter data and extract more meaningful relationships a ...

Avilution’s eXtensible Flight System (XFS) is a suite of hardware and software modules that seamlessly integrate avionics components from multiple vendors into a highly agile, cohesive, and resilient unit for use on aerospace vehicles including manned and unmanned aircraft, autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), innovative commercial air-taxi concepts, and training/mission simulators. Av ...

ABSTRACT: The goal of the Agile Workstation for a Core Architecture Model for Space (AWCAMS) is to provide better understanding of complex space systems, improve communications among key players in the research and development process, and aid in making better acquisition decisions for space. AWCAMS will be an open-source, standards-based framework that integrates with existing DoD and Air Force ...

This proposal describes a hybrid detection, classification, and localization (DCL) system capable of detecting, classifying, and localizing radio frequency (RF) emitters in challenging scenarios involving limited visibility, measurement error, limited pulse observations, dense RF background, ambiguous emitters, and unknown/out-of-library emitters. The remote nodes are centrally controlled to acqui ...

Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (CRG) is developing a low-profile, conformal helmet-mounted sensor that leverages ultra-low power, miniature components with optimized low-power circuitry to gather acceleration data during an ejection event. This, combined with a smart algorithm to reduce power consumption, enables a system that is compatible with routine aircrew wear. The device is small enough t ...

There is a product gap for a Blood Product Heating (BPH) system capable of quickly thawing and heating fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and whole blood for use in AFSOC/SOST battlefield emergency medical operations. SOST presented D’Angelo Technologies, LLC (D5T) with this problem in early January 2019, and D5T engaged in an in-person meeting in February and continued discussions in April and June ...

An atmospheric plasma technique is being adapted to activate high strength steel surfaces for electroplating hard chrome and engineering nickel in landing gear applications. This atmospheric plasma technique allows the conventional abrasive blast and anodic etch techniques for surface activation to be removed from the electroplating processes to reduce the amount of material removed from the part, ...

In recent years, Department of Defense (DoD) readiness has been negatively impacted due to increased reports of unidentified physiological events (UPE’s) during and after fixed-wing flight missions and training. One potential cause of such UPE’s is chemical contamination in pilot breathing air. A gap remains in the development of a standardized and manufacturable investigative device ...