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Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) perimeter security systems suffer from high nuisance alarm rates. Adding more expensive sensors is not affordable. We propose to develop the Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Dynamic Motion Analytics (DMA) that MSI d

Kestrel Corporation (Kestrel) proposes to address needed improvement in the information capabilities in support of Airfield/Perimeter Security with an enhanced ClearView imaging system.  ClearView compensates for atmospheric turbulence-caused optical dist

In Phase I Goodman Technologies (GT) will perform a feasibility study of Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials from a database of optical system and materials vendors compiled over the years, which investigates the design and manufacture of innovative telescope optics that trade cost, weight, optical performance, and stability in the endo- and exo-atmospheric environments, and in a manmade radiation env ...

Verus Research will apply its advancements in novel radar waveform technologies coupled with our high-fidelity physics-based modeling and simulation software tools and hardware-in-the-loop radar test-beds to design, optimize and demonstrate an optimized suite of X-band waveforms. Details of our approach are presented in our technical volume. Approved for Public Release | 21-MDA-11013 (19 Nov 21)

Geochemical processes involve complex interactions between fluid and solid constituents critical for understanding contaminant fate, transport, and remediation. The development of reactive geochemical transport (RGT) models predicting these processes from first principles is challenging and typically requires extensive model calibration against observed site data. In addition, existing numerical R ...

Current electron accelerator technologies are fundamentally limited by the photoinjector, where efficient generation of electron bunches with low emittance is required for high performance electron beams. Many facilities currently use photocathode materials with excitation by high power ultraviolet pulses, which places extreme demands on system components. Therefore, photocathode materials with ex ...

Hyperspectral satellite data is routinely used to monitor greenhouse gas concentrations worldwide. The standard processing of taking averages of these images over time produces rough estimates of emission rates, but atmospheric transport of the gases prevents this simple processing from pinpointing sources of emissions. However, very recent advances in the use of Optimal Transport have shown that ...

Clouds play a leading role in the Earth's global energy and solar radiation balance and hydrological cycle. Improving cloud models requires detailed information on the cloud microphysical properties, such as droplet size distribution and number density, liquid water content and cloud composition (droplets, ice particles), which can only be provided by aerial in situ measurements. However, for many ...

A major limiting factor for biological soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is the capability of the available X-ray fluorescence detectors. There is an enormous and largely untapped potential for biological soft (XAS) at synchrotron light sources, as the metal L-edge and light element K- edge transitions in this region often reveal element-specific chemical details that cannot be readily obta ...

Goodman Technologies (GT) demonstrated 2 aligned carbon nanotube (ACNT) approaches (Nanoforest I, aka VACNT, and patent pending 3-Dimensional Nanoforest III, aka ONT) which provided double-digit percentage improvements in the fracture toughness of commercially available AFR-PE-4 and RM-1100 polyimide systems (Teijin/Renegade Materials), and in Carbon/Epoxy. GT’s breakthrough ACNT enhancements of ...