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TECH FOCUS AREAS: General Warfighting Requirements (GWR) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop a low-latency multisensory digital helmet-mounted near-to-eye augmented reality system for use by dismounted special warriors. System must provide multispectral vision in night, day, and all-weather operations. DESCRIPTION: The Air Force has a mission need for digital visual augment ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: General Warfighting Requirements (GWR) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Space Platform OBJECTIVE: Develop and demonstrate technology capable of providing advanced metrology for large space-based antenna arrays. DESCRIPTION: Large space-based antenna arrays are projected to be needed for future space missions. There is a need to assess the performance, health and degradation of large antenna ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: General Warfighting Requirements (GWR) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Space Platform OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate a manufacturing or assembly system that can function on Earth, in partial gravity, or without gravity. The system should be able to create spacecraft or space station components in space, on asteroids, or on planets. The manufactured components may comprise primary structures, pressur ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Network Command, Control and Communications; 5G; Autonomy TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems; Space Platform OBJECTIVE: Develop proper interfaces, solution architectures and requirements needed to support the software-defined networking (SDN)-based flexible satellite bandwidth on demand Advance typical satellite broadband access services with customers to be able to dynamica ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Network Command, Control and Communications; 5G; Autonomy TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems; Space Platform OBJECTIVE: Develop network function virtualization (NFV) enabled satellite terminals for optimized content distribution. Integration with other terrestrial networks in a dynamic and flexible manner as part of overall 5G ecosystems. 5G-enabled orchestration of warfight ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Biotechnology Space; Microelectronics TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Bio Medical; Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop and demonstrate an advanced oxygen conducting ceramic electrochemical cell and multi-cell stacks capable of increased production of pure (≥99.9%) pressurized oxygen using electric power and air. DESCRIPTION: Aircraft On-Board Oxygen Generating Systems (OBOGSs) use molecular si ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: General Warfighting Requirements (GWR) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Space Platform OBJECTIVE: Three percent (3%) beginning of life (BOL) minimum average energy harvesting device efficiency that enables higher system efficiency in 2022. 4% minimum average device efficiency that enables higher system efficiency in 2024. 6% minimum average device efficiency that enables higher system efficie ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Autonomy; General Warfighting Requirements (GWR) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems OBJECTIVE: Advance the state-of-the-art in forward error corrections (FEC) for improved performance and responsiveness in signals to address real-time threats and challenging urban fading environments through the development of short and very-short block length FEC regimes which would ultimat ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Directed Energy TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Bio Medical OBJECTIVE: Design, develop, and test fast, automated tools for predicting heating of human tissue from exposure from very near RF emitting devices. DESCRIPTION: The government has access to a suite of tools for simulating the human body's thermal response to radio frequency (RF) exposure from nearby electronic equipment, radar, and ...

TECH FOCUS AREAS: Directed Energy TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Bio Medical OBJECTIVE: Design and develop a Virtual Reality (VR) Laser Dazzle/glare and laser eye protection (LEP) effects Demonstrator or for short, a Laser Dazzle Demonstrator (LDD). The demonstrator should simulate representative visual effects on a pilot from a laser directed at an aircraft. Cloud based, real-time, laser dazzle effects s ...