ELECTRONICS
DP14- Hawk A Remote Control Supply and Rescue Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
What began as a way to capture better aerial images for Hollywood has, more than 25 years on, become the face of the new and growing field of unmanned aerial reconnaissance and transport. CLICK FOR MORE.
Insitu: The Genesis of Unmanned Aerial Systems
In 1998, the creators of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched their drone from the roof of a car off Newfoundland, Canada, sending it across the Atlantic Ocean, where it landed less than 27 hours later in a meadow in Scotland. They knew they were making history. The Aerosonde was the first UAV to cross the Atlantic—on less than two gallons of gas. CLICK FOR MORE.
The Slocum Glider: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The first person to sail around the world alone was Nova-Scotian adventurer Joshua Slocum. More than a century after he finished his three-year journey, the Slocum glider, an autonomous underwater vehicle, successfully completed the first trans-Atlantic passage of its kind, traveling from New Jersey to Spain. CLICK FOR MORE.
ATAK: Team Awareness Kit
“Black Hawk Down was the motivational scenario for me,” says Principal Engineer Ralph Kohler of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate, referring to the fateful 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in Somalia. “People could not execute their missions because they didn’t know where everyone else was. The system didn’t work.” CLICK FOR MORE.
Inlet Duct Robotic Drilling
Construction of the F-35 prototypes had hit a serious snag. Small-statured workers were having to don respirator, safety glasses, and gloves and squeeze into nine-foot long, twenty-inch-diameter inlet ducts to drill hundreds of holes with a template and hand drill.CLICK FOR MORE.
Fastener Insertion Live Link System
The revolutionary Fastener Insertion Live Link System, or FILLS, evolved from the IDRD and was spun off in a Phase III SBIR with a set of partners that included the Atlanta-area DeltaSigma Company. CLICK FOR MORE.
Aligned Vision: Laserguided Manufacturing
As the world’s leading industrial laser-projection company, Aligned Vision has spent decades helping fabricators stream- line their manufacturing processes even while increasing accuracy and cutting costs.
—An important early linchpin in the success of the company—which today contracts with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and many others—was a 1990s contract from the Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. CLICK FOR MORE.
CyberWolf- Machine Learning Cybersecurity
CyberWolf is an intelligent, automated security management software that is able to detect traces of worms and viruses in advance. CLICK FOR MORE.
Plug and Play Satellites
A modular nanosatellite approach to form simple, but functional spacecraft. AFRL/RV CLICK FOR MORE.
Fiber Optics Sensor
A sensor capable of measuring stresses in materials at centimeter intervals while in operation. This sensor will greatly enhance the ability of engineers and designers to make better bridges, buildings and transportation
NASA Dryden CLICK FOR MORE.
Hybrid Phase Array
The phased array allows for cellphone tower to cell phone tower, satellite to moving car secure directed communications that can be manufactured on a single MEMS chip.
AMRDEC
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Auditory Horizon
An affordable, practical intuitive audio solution to combat pilot spacial disorientation. Wright Patterson AFB CLICK FOR MORE.
Robotic Radio Communication System
A system for using a robot and relay radio system to maintain the communications link between the user and the robot. When the signal falls below a predetermined threshold, it triggers the release of the relay radios before the strongest signal breaks.
SPAWAR San Diego CLICK FOR MORE.
HoloBrite
Liquid Crystal Polarization Gratings for Photonics Applications to allow for affordable brighter screens
ImagineOptix, Raleigh NC CLICK FOR MORE.