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TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: The United States Air Force is looking for technological innovations based on machine learning techniques for Dynamically Evolving Malware Detection in Data and Network Streams. DESCRIPTION: Polymorphic malware poses increasing challenges to effective signature-based antivirus protection; antivirus defenses have managed to stay ahead in the vi ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Air Platform, Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Develop a computational toolkit to estimate the stresses in rotating blades and other structures due to multiple structural vibratory modes. DESCRIPTION: Turbine engine stress estimation is necessary during engine stress survey testing. Newer modern turbine engines with integrally bladed rotors (IBR) tend to have a higher number of b ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Materials/Processes OBJECTIVE: Develop algorithms and tools to advance the state-of-the-art in the simulation of plasma in the strongly coupled limit, where the energy associated with the long range coulomb fields is larger than the thermal energy associated with the particles. DESCRIPTION: Strongly coupled plasmas occur in a wide range of physical situ ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Materials/Processes OBJECTIVE: The synthesis and characterization of non-toxic, environmentally stable and optically efficient nanoparticles that absorb and emit in the infrared and lack any visible light emissions. DESCRIPTION: There is an Air Force need to develop optical materials that operate in the infrared spectrum. The ideal material would be an environmentally stabl ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Materials/Processes OBJECTIVE: Develop a computational model to predict the flow field in the attachment region of an electric arc and the associated material removal. DESCRIPTION: Data and the ability to predict surface heating and material removal of electrodes at moderate to high pressures (10-300 atm) with a moving arc is needed. The complexity of the process of electro ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Materials/Processes, Sensors OBJECTIVE: Design, development, and fabrication of functional units that can serve as the “cellular” elements in an ensemble based mesoscopic interpretation towards an eventual programmable matter. DESCRIPTION: Computer science has provided a strong theoretical foundation for the concept of programmable ensemble based matter: a form of matte ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Air Platform, Information Systems OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate novel methods for understanding and visualizing information obtained from (ultra) massive data sets generated through physics based simulation. DESCRIPTION: Large-scale simulations are carried out routinely in modern computational physics. Such simulations produce enormous data sets. There is a need for ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Sensors OBJECTIVE: Develop and demonstrate approaches for realizing metamaterial-based micro-electromechanical (MEM) ultra-low-loss non-dispersive phased-array antennas for multifunction radar and communication systems in unmanned and micro air vehicles. DESCRIPTION: Phased-array multi-function radar and communication systems are ideal for unmanned and micro air vehicles th ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Battlespace, Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Accurately determine current and future satellite drag with a thermospheric physical model using near real time space weather data and indices. DESCRIPTION: Orbital drag on spacecraft is a critical factor in providing collision avoidance warnings for manned spaceflight and other high-value assets, accurately cataloging orbiting o ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: The United States Air Force is looking for technological innovations to provide assured information sharing capabilities using flexible cloud computing based architectures. DESCRIPTION: Assured information sharing (AIS) frameworks should provide the ability to dynamically and securely share information at multiple classification levels among U ...