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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Modeling a UAV-Based Mesh Network to Analyze Latency and Throughput
Improving network technology through effective systems architecture can ensure better communication between a ground station and multiple UAVs.
Briefs: FDA/Regulatory
Cyber Risk Assessment and Scoring Model for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Learn about a cyber risk assessment methodology tailored for small UAVs.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Deceiving the Enemy: These Are the Drones You Are Looking For
See how the US military can decrease risk to air and ground combatants by causing adversaries to expend resources.
Briefs: Imaging
Calibrated Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Birds
Well-calibrated imagery helps to distinguish between small UAVs and birds of similar size and dimensions.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Investigation of Flight Dynamics and Controls for a Solar-Tracker-Mounted UAV
A new study explores the dynamics behavior of the parallel mechanism mounted UAV.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A Comparative Evaluation of the Detection and Tracking Capability Between Novel Event-Based and Conventional Frame-Based Sensors
This research establishes a fundamental understanding of the characteristics of event-based sensors.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Characterization of Turbulent Unsteady Separation Using Photonic Micro-Skin Friction and Wall Pressure Sensors
Learn about a photonic skin friction and wall pressure sensor.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Low-Impact Space Weather Sensors and the U.S. National Security Spacecraft
Low-impact sensors close a gap in the U.S. space weather observation network.
Briefs: Wearables
Sensory Integration Balance Deficits in Complex mTBI: Can Early Initiation of Rehabilitation with Wearable Sensor Technology Improve Outcomes?
A novel feedback system provides physical therapists with real-time information about quality of head and trunk movement during exercise.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Frequency Agile Plasmonic Antennas and Sensors
A new way of assembling individual nanostructures will facilitate better design principles for plasmonic photonic devices.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An Ultrafast Testbed for Comprehensive Characterization of Photonics, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Properties of Integrated Nanophotonic Structures
High-speed testing technology will enable advances such as new digital signal processing and computing platforms in the optical domain.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Radiation Effects on Electronics in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Technology (RadCNT)
The "RadCNT" program use carbon-based transistors to study the interactions between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Nanofabrication Technology for Production of Quantum Nano-Electronic Devices Integrating Niobium Electrodes and Optically Transparent Gates
Devices created using this technology could be used for control and sending of qubit/quantum memory states to remote locations.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Reconfigurable Electronics Based on Multiferroics and Nanomagnetism
Multifunctional magnetoelectric materials with high exchange represent a missing “holy grail” of materials physics.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Atomistic- and Meso-Scale Computational Simulations for Developing Multi-Timescale Theory for Radiation Degradation in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
One particular semiconductor, gallium arsenide (GaAs), has received considerable attention due to its potential electronic applications.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Designing Sensory and Adaptive Composite Materials
Newly developed computational approaches aid in the design of composites that exhibit remarkable abilities to both sense external cues and adapt to these cues in controllable, "programmable" ways.
Briefs: Aerospace
Design of New Piezoelectric Composites Using Nanocellulose
Using cellulose crystals as building blocks for the design and development of new low-density functional polymer composites.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Bioenvironmental Engineering Guide for Composite Materials
Develop a comprehensive baseline for identifying, evaluating, and controlling occupational and environmental hazards associated with composite fibers.
Briefs: Materials
Fast Reacting Nano-Composite Energetic Materials: Synthesis and Combustion Characterization
The advent of nanoparticle fuels enables new kinds of reactions, and new kinds of applications.
Briefs: Materials
Progress on Zirconia-Polyurea Matrix Hybrid Composites
Incorporating zirconia particles into polyurea elastomers to form hybrid composites and designing them into state-of-the-art body armor has the potential to achieve lightweight ballistic efficiency.
Briefs: Aerospace
Analysis of Broadband Metamaterial Shielding for Counter-Directed Energy Weapons
Given the importance of electronics in modern warfare, the ability to rapidly develop a counter to such weapons will be essential to sustaining military operations.
Briefs: Energy
Exploring the Impact of Fuel Data Acquisition Technology on the USMC Expeditionary Energy Command and Control System
Understanding how delays in resource decision making and tactical supply chains relate to operational reach will give commanders the ability to maximize resources.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Collection, Processing, and Accuracy of Mobile Terrestrial LiDAR Survey Data in the Coastal Environment
Using terrestrial LiDAR scanners coupled with a GPS/inertial navigation system to collect elevation data along the coast can help assess the accuracy of the data.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Instrumentation for Fabrication and Testing of High-Speed Single-Rotor and Compound-Rotor Systems
To support the development of next-generation rotorcraft, precision data acquisition is required.
Briefs: Aerospace
Data Collection Using the MetalMapper in Dynamic Data Acquisition and Cued Modes
Learn about a technology designed to safely locate, identify and recovering buried munitions.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Directed-Energy System to Defeat Small Unmanned Aircraft System Swarms
New weapons technology is needed to combat the proliferation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).
Briefs: Test & Measurement
WIAMan Technology Demonstrator Sensor Codes Conforming to International Organization for Standardization/Technical Standard (ISO/TS) 13499
The Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) Project is in the process of developing anthropomorphic test devices.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Beam Propagation Model Selection for Millimeter-Wave Directed Energy Weapons
See how Modeling and Simulation (M&S) can be used to explore the design trade space of directed energy weapons.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Experimental Design of a UCAV-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon
The day of the first deployable UCAV armed with a high-energy laser weapon is not far away.

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