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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 ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Air Platform, Ground/Sea Vehicles OBJECTIVE: Develop an electrical energy storage system with combined energy density > 25 Wh/kg and power density > 100 kW/kg for storage capacity from 150 kJ to 150 MJ and cyclic efficiency > 98%. DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Air Force has wide-ranging needs for electrical energy storage systems for airborne and space craft, such as transient ener ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Sensors OBJECTIVE: Development of an innovative atmospheric sensing system to address deep turbulence challenges to support long-range sensing of weapon platforms. DESCRIPTION: Successful development of the Air Force future long-range sensing, surveillance, and weapon platforms including their major components, such as tracking, beam and wavefront control sub-systems, depends ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Electronics ACQUISITION PROGRAM: Modeling and Simulation The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would ac ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Sensors, Weapons OBJECTIVE: To produce a dual band telemetry system consisting of a transmitter, antenna cables, and possibly a combiner to replace current S-band telemetry systems on missile defense interceptors and associated test target vehicles. The proposer will consider form, fit, and function as design constraints and will design, integrate, and produce a prototype (in ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop techniques, algorithms, and architectures to enable automated system-level supervisory control of jobs running on multi-processor systems. Develop performance metrics to evaluate this supervisory control. DESCRIPTION: As the DoD progresses toward more multi-processor systems, the need to automate dispatching of compute jobs and also to ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: The overall objective is to develop new software tools for addressing the requirements of programming the emerging class of computational hardware for Exa-Scale computing. The DoD will benefit through reduced software production costs, and reduced overall life cycle costs through greater portability, fewer defects, and energy reduction. DESCRIP ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop innovative technologies for early design and analysis of multi-threaded software for multi-core systems enabling robust development of distributed, real-time systems targeted for dynamic environments. DESCRIPTION: The multi-core era has significantly impacted the way software is developed. While multi-core processors are expected to in ...

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: Design and develop innovative technologies for operating system services that take advantage of abstract concepts to efficiently partition, communicate, and execute programs on many-core, multi-processor systems. DESCRIPTION: The Department of Defense (DoD) is heavily reliant on computational power to perform rapid analysis of sensor data, sea ...