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FACILITATE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE

FACILITATE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES

COVID-19 DPA3: DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT (DPA) TITLE III INCREASED MACHINING CAPABILITY

NASA ECLIPS 4D (DESIGN, DEVELOP, DISSEMINATE, DISCOVER) OFFERS A SERIES OF STIMULATING AND INFORMATIVE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE UNDERS

DPA TITLE III PROGRAM, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY PRODUCTION & TEST FOR HYPERSONIC MISSILES

RESEARCH ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING

TAS::573600::TAS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH ON COMPUTATIONAL AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES TERM OF AGREEMENT: 63 MONTHS INCL. 3 MONTHS FOR FINAL REPORT

RESEARCH ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING FOR ELECTRONICS AND CYBER APPLICATIONS.

NIJ/OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EARMARKS

AERONAUTICAL R&D

THE OHIO SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM (OSGC) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1989 AS PART OF THE NATIONAL SPACE GRANT COLLEGE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (PHASE 1). THE OSGC IS COMPOSED OF 19 DIVERSE AFFILIATES (18 UNIVERSITIES 1 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION). THERE ARE 18

TOTAL HYBRID ELECTRIC MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION SYSTEM THEMIS

LABORATORY RESEARCH IS UNDERWAY ON PHASE 1 OFTHE VALKYRIE CRYOBOT PROJECT UNDER . ^STEP FUNDING. WE ARC NVESTIGATING HIGH POWER LASER TRANSMISSION T

RECENT OBSERVATIONS OF THE DUSKSIDE THERMOSPHERE HAVE REVEALED ADDITIONAL COMPLEXITY TO THE COUPLING BETWEEN THE IONOSPHERE/ THERMOSPHERE REGIONS. THERE ARE TWO DOMINANT INTERACTIONS IN THE LOW-LATITUDE DUSKS-SIDE IONOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE: EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY (EIA) AND EQUATORIAL TEMPERATURE AND WIND ANOMALY (ETWA). WHILE THE EIA HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY STUDIED UTILIZING BOTH OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS THE STUDY OF ETWA HAS BEEN LIMITED BECAUSE OF INFREQUENT OBSERVATIONS DUE TO A LACK OF SUITABLY-INSTRUMENTED SPACECRAFT AT APPROPRIATE ALTITUDES. THE LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE ENHANCEMENTS IN DENSITY (LLITED) MISSION PROPOSES TO FILL THIS NEED BY PROVIDING BOTH IONOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE MEASUREMENTS FOR USE IN THE STUDY OF THE ETWA ITS ASSOCIATED COUPLING PHYSICS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ETWA AND EIA. SCIENCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: LLITED WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME PROVIDE COINCIDENT MEASUREMENTS OF THE DUSKSIDE THERMOSPHERE/IONOSPHERE AT LOWER ALTITUDES PROVIDING A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE ETWA. THE MISSION S OVERALL GOAL IS TO CHARACTERIZE THE VARIABILITY AND THE COUPLING DRIVERS OF THE ETWA. SPECIFICALLY THE MISSION WILL: 1) DETERMINE THE MESOSCALE VARIABILITY OF THE ETWA AS A FUNCTION SEASON AND LON/LAT AS WELL AS ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EIA HEATING. 2) EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEUTRAL WINDS (I.E. TIDES) AND THE EIA ZONAL STRUCTURE. 3) INVESTIGATE THE SMALL-SCALE WAVE FLUCTUATIONS IN NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE QUANTITIES SUCH AS THOSE OBSERVED BY EARLIER MISSIONS TO DETERMINE IF THEY ARE SIMILARLY EXHIBITED IN THE IONOSPHERIC DENSITY. METHODOLOGY: WE PROPOSE A CUBESAT MISSION CONSISTING OF TWO 1.5U CUBESATS IN A LOW-INCLINATION ORBIT. EACH CUBESAT WILL HOST THREE PAYLOADS: AN IONIZATION GAUGE (IG) PLASMA PROBE (PP) AND GPS RADIO OCCULTATION SENSOR (GPSRO). THE IG WILL PROVIDE IN-SITU RELATIVE NEUTRAL PRESSURE FROM WHICH NEUTRAL DENSITY IS INFERRED. THE PP WILL PROVIDE IN-SITU ELECTRON DENSITY. THE IG AND PP SENSORS WILL CHARACTERIZE THE THERMOSPHERE/IONOSPHERE DENSITIES AT THE S/C. THE GPSRO WILL PROVIDE POSITION/NAVIGATION/TIME TO THE S/C ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM AS WELL AS PROVIDE BACKGROUND IONOSPHERE DENSITY CONDITIONS FOR ADDED CONTEXT. WE PROPOSE TO LAUNCH THE TWO CUBESATS FROM THE ISS AND MAINTAIN A SEPARATION OF ~30 DEG LATITUDE IN ORDER TO SAMPLE THE IONOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE AT MULTIPLE TIMES IN ORDER TO CHARACTERIZE THE ETWA EVOLUTION. THE OBSERVATIONS FROM LLITED WILL BE COMBINED WITH THE REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS OF ICON TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE DATASET OF THE ETWA. RELEVANCE: LLITED DIRECTLY ADDRESSES TWO OF THE GOALS IN THE 2014 NASA SCIENCE PLAN: EXPLORE THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE SUN TO THE EARTH AND THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONNECTIONS THAT LINK THE SUN THE EARTH PLANETARY SPACE ENVIRONMENTS AND THE OUTER REACHES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM BY PROVIDING NEW MEASUREMENTS OF THE THERMOSPHERE/IONOSPHERE THAT WILL BE USED TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESSES BEHIND THE ETWA. THIS STUDY WILL ALSO IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF SUN/EARTH CONNECTION SINCE THE CHANGES IN SOLAR ILLUMINATION (DAY/NIGHT) RESULTS IN VARYING PRESSURE/DENSITY GRADIENTS WHICH IN TURN DRIVE THE ETWA THROUGH FORCING IN THE THERMOSPHERE/IONOSPHERE

ROBOTIC EXPLORATION AND LIFE SEARCH ON OCEAN WORLDS REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO ACCESS HABITABLE OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS CONCEALED BENEATH THICK ICE CRUSTS. ADDITIONALLY AN INSTRUMENT SUITE IS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE COMPLICATED TASK OF AUTONOMOUS LIFE DETECTION. WE PROPOSE TO ADDRESS THESE TECHNOLOGICAL AND OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR OCEAN WORLD ACCESS WITH THOR A ROBUST CRYOBOT CAPABLE OF RAPID (10 M/HR) DEEP (500+ M) SUBGLACIAL ACCESS THAT CARRIES AN ONBOARD SCIENCE PAYLOAD OPTIMIZED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND LIFE DETECTION. THOR WILL BE DEPLOYED AT THE EASTERN SKAFTAFELL SUBGLACIAL LAKE IN VATNAJOKULL ICELAND WHERE IT WILL PENETRATE THE THICK ICE COVER OF THE LAKE. SUCCESSFUL FIELDING OF THOR WILL MARK THE FIRST CRYOBOT DESCENT INTO A SUBGLACIAL LAKE THUS ENABLING UNIQUE INVESTIGATIONS OF BOTH THE LAKE'S GEOMICROBIOLOGY AND OF CONOPS STRATEGIES FOR A CRYOBOT'S ENTRY INTO AND DESCENT THROUGH A SUBGLACIAL BODY OF WATER. THE THOR TEAM LEVERAGES SUCCESSFUL WORK FROM THE VALKYRIE AND SPINDLE PROJECTS AND OFFERS FIDELITY TO PSTAR IN THE AREAS OF SCIENCE SCIENCE OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY. A) SCIENCE: INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EASTERN SKAFTAFELL LAKE WILL CENTER AROUND DETECTING AND CHARACTERIZING MICROORGANISMS IN THE WATER COLUMN AND VOLCANIC VENTS TO DECIPHER THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY LIBERATED FROM GEOTHERMAL VS. GLACIOLOGICAL PROCESSES. TO AID THESE INVESTIGATIONS THOR WILL CARRY A SUITE OF INSTRUMENTS CHOSEN TO CHARACTERIZE THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE ICE AND SUBGLACIAL LAKE WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON LIFE-DETECTION STRATEGIES. ONBOARD INSTRUMENTS WILL INCLUDE A FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER A HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPE CAPABLE OF IMAGING PROKARYOTIC CELLS AN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY MEASUREMENT SUITE A TRANSMISSOMETER / BACKSCATTERING SENSOR AND A WATER SAMPLER. A NANOPORE DNA SEQUENCER WILL BE USED ON-SITE TO ANALYZE WATER SAMPLES ACQUIRED BY THOR. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WILL UTILIZE WATER COLUMN AND VENT MATERIAL SAMPLES WHICH WILL BE RETURNED TO THE SURFACE AND ANALYZED. B) SCIENCE OPERATIONS: AT SKAFTAFELL THE THOR CRYOBOT WILL PENETRATE A 300 M THICK GLACIER AND ENTER THE SUBGLACIAL LAKE IN THE VOLCANO'S CRATER. UPON REACHING THE ICE-WATER INTERFACE THE CRYOBOT WILL TRANSITION INTO AN INSTRUMENT SONDE AND SPOOL ITSELF TO THE LAKE FLOOR WHILE SAMPLING AND ANALYZING THE WATER COLUMN. THIS PENETRATOR-TO-SONDE STRATEGY IS A NEW STEP-WISE APPROACH TO THE INITIAL EXPLORATION OF AN ALIEN OCEAN. AS THE VEHICLE DESCENDS INPUT FROM THE SENSOR SUITE WILL GOVERN DECISION-TO-COLLECT BEHAVIORS TO TRIGGER PROCESSES SUCH AS WATER SAMPLING. THE SYSTEM WILL BE RETRIEVED AFTER EACH MISSION AND WE ANTICIPATE COMPLETING SEVERAL DESCENTS IN EACH OF TWO FIELD SEASONS. EXPLORING METHODS WHICH COULD BE USED TO DETECT EXTANT LIFE ON OCEAN WORLDS IS OF HIGH IMPORTANCE. TO THAT END WE WILL ASSESS HOW WELL AND IN WHAT WAYS THE SUITE OF INSTRUMENTS FUNCTION TOGETHER TO DETERMINE WHETHER LIFE IS PRESENT AND AT WHAT QUANTITIES. CONVENTIONAL LIMNOLOGICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES USING WATER SAMPLES ACQUIRED BY THOR WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE AUTONOMOUS SAMPLING DECISIONS. C) TECHNOLOGY: THE CRYOBOT DESIGN WILL USE A CLOSED-CYCLE HOT WATER DRILL APPROACH WHEREIN THE WATER IS HEATED IN A NOVEL WAY: HIGH VOLTAGE IS APPLIED ACROSS A FLOWING COLUMN OF WATER WHICH SERVES AS THE RESISTIVE ELEMENT IN AN ELECTRO-RESISTIVE HEATER. ENERGY TRANSFER FROM THE ELECTRICAL SOURCE TO THE WATER IS INSTANTANEOUS AND OCCURS AT 100% EFFICIENCY. DIRECT HIGH VOLTAGE HEATING COMBINED WITH NEW INSULATION TECHNOLOGY MAKES POSSIBLE A COMPACT CRYOBOT THAT IS CAPABLE OF RAPID DESCENT AND DEEP SUBGLACIAL ACCESS WITH A SMALL FIELDLOGISTICS FOOTPRINT. GIVEN ITS SIMPLICITY THE CRYOBOT WILL BE INEXPENSIVE EASILY DEPLOYABLE AND FIELD SERVICEABLE. THE THOR PLATFORM WILL ENABLE UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS MAKING IT AN IDEAL PAYLOAD DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR OCEAN WORLDS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND ANALOG RESEARCH IN THIS PSTAR PROJECT AND BEYOND.

THE OHIO SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM (OSGK!:), ESTABLISHED LN 1989, IS COMPOSED OF 27 DIVERSE AFFILIATES OFFERING STEM DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATED THROUGHOUT

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE NATIONAL SPACE GRANT COLLEGE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ARE 1. TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES WITH INTERESTS AND C

THE STATEMENT OF WORK ENTITLED, "AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INITIATIVE", DATED 16 MAY 2004, IS ATTACHMENT 1 TO THE AGREEMENT.

IDENTIFICATION USING A HIGH-PREFORMANCE THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER - PI JOHN HACKWELL A

WE PROPOSE TO DEMONSTRATE IN SPACE A NEW AND HIGHLY SENSITIVE 2X8 HGCDTE ELECTRON AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE (E-APD) ARRAY DEVELOPED BY DRS-RSTA THAT HAS HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY AND SINGLE PHOTON LEVEL RESPONSE AT IR WAVELENGTHS FROM 1 TO 4 MICRONS. CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO SPACE-QUALIFIED PHOTON LEVEL COUNTING DETECTORS AT>1-MICRON THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH LONG-TERM SPACE OPERATION. FOR THIS REASON THE ICESAT-2 MISSION CONVERTED ITS 1-MICRON LASER INTO THE GREEN WHICH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE INSTRUMENT'S POWER AND COMPLEXITY. FUTURE NASA MISSIONS SUCH AS ICESAT ASCENDS LIST AND OTHERS WILL GREATLY BENEFIT FROM THESE PHOTON-SENSITIVE IR DETECTOR ARRAYS.WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE DETECTOR RESPONSE TO 1-2 MICRON SOURCES AND MEASURE ITS DARK CURRENT AS A FUNCTION OF TIME IDEALLY 1 YEAR ON ORBIT IN THE INTEGRATED SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT. WE WILL USE A 3U CUBESAT FROM THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION THAT WILL CONTAIN A DRS TECHNOLOGIES 2X8 HGCDTE E-APD ARRAY SENSOR HOUSED IN A DEWAR-COOLER ASSEMBLY FOR OPERATION AT 80K. THE CUBESAT WILL HAVE ATTITUDE KNOWLEDGE CONTROL AND GROUND CONNECTIVITY IDENTICAL OR IMPROVED OVER THE THREE AEROCUBE-4 SATELLITES CURRENTLY ON ORBIT. OUR PROPOSAL DIVIDES THE MISSION INTO SEPARATE COST OPTIONS. THE BASELINE MISSION TESTS DEVICE PERFORMANCE SOLELY WITH 1-2 MICRON SOURCES LOCATED ON THE CUBESAT. OPTION 1 ADDS SENSOR STIMULATION FROM GROUND SOURCES PROVIDING A MORE COMPLEX AND REALISTIC USAGE SCENARIO. OPTION 2 ADDS A LENS ARRAY TO THE DETECTOR IMPROVING ITS EFFICIENCY. OPTION 3 ADDS COST FOR AN ATHENA LAUNCH IN 2015. THE PROPOSED DETECTOR FOR THIS FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION WILL ENTER AS TRL 5/6 WHEN IN JUNE 2013 AND EXIT AT TRL 8/9 BY APRIL 2016.

WE PROPOSE A THREE-YEAR CUBESAT MISSION DAILI TO STUDY DYNAMICAL CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION IN THE APPROXIMATE 140 TO 290 KM ALTITUDE REGION. DAILI IMPLEMENTS A NEWLY DEVELOPED TECHNIQUE RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN GRL TO MEASURE THE ABSOLUTE O2 DENSITY AT MID AND LOW LATITUDES. THE TECHNIQUE UTILIZES THE RATIO OF TWO BRIGHT DAYGLOW EMISSIONS A PORTION OF THE O2A (0 0) BAND AT 765 NM AND THE OI REDLINE AT 630 NM. THIS WILL ALLOW THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENT OF O2 DENSITY IN THE 140 TO 200 KM ALTITUDE REGIME (THE THERMOSPHERE GAP REGION) WHERE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRAL DENSITY MEASUREMENTS ARE SCARCE. THE REDLINE IS ALSO SENSITIVE TO IONOSPHERIC DENSITY AT ALTITUDES ABOVE 200 KM SO THIS TECHNIQUE WILL ALSO PROVIDE DAYTIME/NIGHTTIME IONOSPHERIC DATA FOR COMPARISON TO MODELS. VARIATIONS OF THE ALTITUDE PROFILES OF O2 AND THE REDLINE CAN BE USED TO STUDY TIDAL AND PLANETARY WAVE VARIABILITY THROUGHOUT THE MEASUREMENT REGIME AS WELL AS TRANSPORT OF NEUTRAL O2 FROM HIGH TO LOW LATITUDES DUE TO GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY. THE DATA WILL BE COMPARED TO STATE-OF-THE ART MODELS TO HELP IN THEIR EVALUATION. DAILI WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE OBJECTIVES. (1) DETERMINE THE O2 DENSITY FROM 140 TO 180 KM AT MID AND LOW LATITUDES ON A DAILY BASIS AND COMPARE WITH MODELS SUCH AS MSIS AND TIME-GCM. (2) MEASURE THE ALTITUDE VARIABILITY OF TIDES AND PLANETARY WAVES FROM 140 TO 180 KM WHERE MEASUREMENTS BY OTHER MEANS ARE SCARCE. (3) DETERMINE THE LATITUDINAL AND ALTITUDINAL EXTENT OF THE TRANSPORT OF NEUTRAL O2 DURING GEOMAGNETICALLY ACTIVE PERIODS. (4) DETERMINE VARIATIONS IN THE F-REGION ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILE IN RESPONSE TO TIDES AND PLANETARY WAVES ABOVE 200 KM. THE 6U DAILI PAYLOAD CONSISTS OF A TWO-CHANNEL PHOTOMETER OCCUPYING ABOUT 2 U THAT IMAGES THE EARTH'S LIMB OVER A 6 DEGREE FOV ONTO DIFFERENT REGIONS OF A SINGLE CCD EACH COLOR CHANNEL OCCUPYING ABOUT 180 X 180 PIXELS. AT A NOMINAL LIMB DISTANCE OF 2300 KM THE FOV IS NOMINALLY FROM 140 TO 290 KM IN ALTITUDE OVER A 150 KM HORIZONTAL SPAN. A SUNSHADE WHICH OCCUPIES ABOUT 3U EXTERIOR TO THE OPTICS EXCLUDES SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE SUN THE HARD EARTH AND LOW ALTITUDE CLOUDS. THE AEROSPACE CUBESAT BUS TAKES UP THE REMAINING SPACE. THE BUS SATISFIES ALL POWER THERMAL AND POINTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CAMERA OPERATION INCLUDING A STAR SENSOR AND ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PAYLOAD POINTING TO BETTER THAN 0.1 DEGREE. THIS POINTING SYSTEM WILL ALLOW HIGHER OR LOWER ALTITUDES THAN THE NOMINAL RANGE TO BE OBSERVED IF DESIRED. THE DAILI DATA RATE WILL BE ABOUT 5 MBYTES/DAY. IT IS PROPOSED THAT DAILI BE LAUNCHED FROM THE ISS USING THE NANORACKS CUBESAT DEPLOYER GIVING A NOMINAL 51-DEGREE INCLINATION ORBIT AT 400 KM ALTITUDE. THE DESIGN LIFE OF DAILI IS AT LEAST ONE YEAR. THE RECEIVED DATA WILL BE STORED AND PROCESSED AT AEROSPACE AND THEN COMPARED TO STATE-OF-THE ART MODELS INCLUDING AURIC TIMED GCM AND GLOW TO MEET THE OBJECTIVES. THE DAILI EXPERIMENT DIRECTLY ADDRESSES NASA S STRATEGIC GOAL 2.2 TO STUDY THE SUN AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH THE EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN PARTICULAR THE GOAL OF ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT. THE COMPOSITION AND IONOSPHERIC DATA PROVIDED BY DAILI WILL FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH PROCESSES IN THE LOWER THERMOSPHERE WHERE MEASUREMENTS ARE SCARCE. THE WIDE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE DATA PROVIDED BY DAILI OVER THE COURSE OF ITS MISSION WILL IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF OPERATIONAL MODELS OF BOTH THE NEUTRAL DENSITY AND THE IONOSPHERE.

2009 LEWIS' EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

OHIO SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP, INTEGRATE, AND FIELD TEST SPINDLE (SUB-GLACIAL POLAR ICE NAVIGATION, DESCENT, AND LAKE EXPLORATION)-AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYST

SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION OF OCEAN WORLDS ULTIMATELY REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT ICE PENETRATION. WE PROPOSE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENTIRELY NOVEL ICE PENETRATING TECHNOLOGY USING LASER LIGHT CARRIED BY AN OPTICAL FIBER TETHER AND EMITTED FROM THE PROBE S NOSE CONE DIRECTLY INTO THE ICE. THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS CRITICAL BENEFITS OVER CONVENTIONAL HOT POINT MELT PROBES AND MECHANICAL DRILLS AND IS PARTICULARLY ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE EXTREME COLD AND VACUUM ENVIRONMENT ON OCEAN WORLDS. CURRENTLY OUR DIRECT LASER PROBE IS TARGETED FOR VERY EFFICIENT PENETRATION OF 1 TO 10 METERS DEPTH AND SCALES WELL FOR PENETRATION OF 10S TO 100S OF METERS. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT STONE AEROSPACE OVER A RANGE OF POWER LEVELS AND ICE PENETRATION RATES PRODUCED EXCELLENT RESULTS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS (TRL 3) AND ACHIEVING THE FASTEST RECORDED CRYOBOT DESCENT SPEED TO DATE. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP BUILD AND CHARACTERIZE A DIRECT-LASER-BASED PENETRATOR SYSTEM REFINING AND ADVANCING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO TRL 5. WE WILL TEST A RANGE OF PROBE DIAMETERS AND LASER POWER LEVELS UNDER RELEVANT EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. ADDITIONALLY WE WILL INVESTIGATE FIBER-COUPLED OPTICAL BIOMARKER SENSORS THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LASER S FIBER OPTIC TETHER.

WE PROPOSE TO ADVANCE A CRYOBOT DESIGN THAT USES CLOSED-CYCLE HOT WATER DRILLING (CCHWD) TECHNOLOGY AS THE PRIMARY MEANS OF PENETRATING ICE. THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE PROMETHEUS (NUCLEAR-POWERED ROBOTIC MECHANISM TECHNOLOGY FOR HOT-WATER EXPLORATION OF UNDER-ICE SPACE) VEHICLE WILL BE TO ENABLE ACTIVELY CONTROLLED DESCENT THROUGH THE ICE SHELL INTO EUROPA S SUBSURFACE OCEAN. IN PROMETHEUS WE WILL DESIGN DEVELOP AND TEST A CCHWD CRYOBOT THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH A SMALL FISSION REACTOR AND WHICH CAN BE DEVELOPED BY 2022 INTO A REALISTIC FLIGHT CRYOBOT. THE DESIGN IS A NUCLEAR FISSION POWERED SUCCESSOR TO STONE AEROSPACE S VALKYRIE AND SPINDLE CRYOBOTS CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING A 15 KM DESCENT THROUGH A EUROPAN ICE PROFILE IN UNDER A YEAR AND UNDER 200 KG VEHICLE MASS NOT COUNTING REACTOR MASS. BASED ON ANALYSES AND DESIGN WORK FROM PRIOR AND ON-GOING STONE AEROSPACE CRYOBOT PROJECTS WE ANTICIPATE THE FLIGHT CRYOBOT TO HAVE A 37 CM DIAMETER AND 4 M LENGTH.DESIGN ISSUES WE WILL ADDRESS INCLUDE: CREATING AND USING A NUCLEAR SURROGATE HEAT SOURCE FOR REALISTIC TESTING CRYOBOT SUBSYSTEMS OPTIMIZING AN END-TO-END SYSTEM DESIGN TAILORED TO THE EUROPAN ICE COLUMN DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE HEAT EXCHANGER TO USE REACTOR WASTE HEAT FOR HOT WATER DRILLING DEVELOPING A ROBUST JET PUMP DESIGN FOR WATER JETTING INCORPORATING A PASSIVE MELTING DEFAULT CAPABILITY IN THE EVENT OF CCHWD FAILURE DESIGNING AN EFFICIENT HEAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE VEHICLE VALIDATING THERMAL ANALYSES IN EUROPAN CONDITIONS DEVELOPING AN ONBOARD SPOOLER FOR VERTICAL MOTION CONTROL OF THE CRYOBOT DESIGN AND TESTING OF A PRESSURE SHELL THAT WILL ENABLE CCHWD INITIATION AT THE SURFACE DESIGN AND TESTING OF A NOSE GEOMETRY OPTIMIZED FOR PASSIVE MELTING AT THE SURFACE INVESTIGATION OF DIRTY ICE PROPERTIES AND CRYOVAC TESTING OF CRYOBOT CAPABILITIES WITHIN DIRTY ICE WE WILL TEST A FUNCTIONAL SUB-SCALE CCHWD CRYOBOT AND VARIOUS PROMETHEUS SUBSYSTEMS BOTH IN PURE WATER ICE AND DIRTY ICE IN THE STONE AEROSPACE EUROPA TOWER CRYOGENIC/VACUUM FACILITY. THE INTERNAL VOLUME OF THE EUROPA TOWER CRYOVAC CHAMBER IS 0.75 M IN DIAMETER AND 2 M TALL AND THE CHAMBER CAN SIMULATE THE TEMPERATURES AND VACUUM CONDITIONS BELIEVED TO EXIST IN EUROPA S SURFACE BRITTLE AND DUCTILE ICES.

THE OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE (OAI) INTENDS TO PROPOSE TO SERVE AS THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION FOR THE NASA ONE STOP SHOPPING INITIATIVE (OSS

NEXT GENERATION INNOVATION FOR A RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN

PROPOSAL FOR ACTIVE CONTROL OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC STABILITY IN LEAN COMBUSTION VIA PLASMA ACTUATION IN A NOVEL FUEL INJECTOR DESIGN

---------- MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION: NEW CONDITIONAL SMARTFARM SBIR/STTR AWARD. CONTROL NUMBER: 2251-1511 TITLE: “DRON2O: A DRONE-BASED SYSTEM FOR MEASURING NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURAL FIELDS” ----------

NASA STRATEGIC GOAL 4: ENHANCE CAPABILITIES AND OPERATIONS TO CATALYZE CURRENT AND FUTURE MISSION SUCCESS. NASA INVESTMENTS IN STEM ENGAGEMENT ARE FOCUSED ON BUILDING A FUTURE STEM WORKFORCE THROUGH PROGRAM ELEMENTS DESIGNED TO BOLSTER CAPACITY AND TO ATTRACT ENGAGE AND ENABLE STUDENTS TO MOVE TOWARD STEM CAREERS THROUGH NASA-UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES.

THROUGH-ICE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN ICE-PENETRATING VEHICLE (CRYOBOT) AND A SURFACE LANDER IS CRITICAL FOR SCIENCE RETURN ON OCEAN WORLD SUBSURFACE MISSIONS. IT WILL BE DESIRABLE TO SPOOL OUT A HIGH-BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION TETHER BEHIND A DESCENDING

TAS::89 0222::TAS NEW PHASE I 2010 SBIR; TITLE: WEATHERVANE - A PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS ENGINE FOR GLOBAL MONITORING OF WIND TURBINES; PI: ERIK ERLANDS

EO14042 OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE-GLENN RESEARCH CENTER INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP

MALAWI NATIONAL INTEGRATED DRONE LOGISTICS NETWORK

SBIR PHASE II: A ROBUST PRODUCTION SCHEDULING OPTIMIZER FOR AEROSPACE MANUFACTURERS -THE BROADER IMPACT OF THIS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II PROJECT SEEKS TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE US IN MANUFACTURING HIGH VALUE PARTS FOR SHOPS WITH HIGH PRODUCT VARIETY, LOW VOLUMES, LARGE LEAD TIMES, AND LARGE SET UP TIMES. THE APPLICATION ADDRESSES A NEED TO FIND THE OPTIMAL WAY OF UTILIZING EXISTING RESOURCES IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE PRODUCTION RATES. THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY MAY PROVIDE AN AFFORDABLE AND EASY-TO-USE SOLUTION FOR TARGET MARKETS IN AEROSPACE AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INDUSTRIES. THE TECHNOLOGY MAY ALSO HELP STRENGTHEN THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES BY FACILITATING ONSHORING OF DEFENSE MANUFACTURING BY MAKING DOMESTIC PRODUCERS MORE COST COMPETITIVE. THIS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES HIGH VALUE MANUFACTURERS IN OPTIMIZING THE FLOW OF MATERIALS IN THEIR SHOPS. FOR SHOPS WITH HIGH PRODUCT VARIETY, LOW VOLUME, LARGE LEAD TIMES, AND LARGE SET UP TIMES, THERE IS A NEED TO FIND THE OPTIMAL WAY TO UTILIZE EXISTING RESOURCES IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE PRODUCTION RATE. MOST SCHEDULING OPTIMIZERS ARE UNABLE TO HANDLE THIS PROBLEM RELIABLY OR AFFORDABLY. THE NEWLY PROPOSED METHODS, ALGORITHMS, AND SOFTWARE MAY SOLVE THIS CHALLENGE. THE BUSINESS MODEL FOR DELIVERING THIS SOFTWARE SOLUTION IS DESIGNED FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE BUSINESSES IN TERMS OF BOTH COST AND USABILITY PERSPECTIVES. THE SOLUTION DEMONSTRATES DOUBLE DIGIT IMPROVEMENTS IN ALL KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIS), SUCH AS ON-TIME DELIVERY (OTD), INVENTORY TURNS, AND PROFITABILITY. PHASE II WORK WILL MATURE SHOP OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE THROUGH DEMONSTRATION IN A REAL AEROSPACE PARTS FACTORY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

MULTI-WAVELNEGTH ATMOSPHERIC CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM

07-IRAC1-07-0028 AN ADAPTIVE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR SAFE HIGH-PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT (ACTS)THE FOCUS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS AN APT PROJECT FOR IRAC AND C

SBIR PHASE II: A RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT NEW METHOD FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL -- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

ESTABLISHMENT OF A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT IN SUPPORT OF MOBILITY RESEARCH FOR FUTURE VEHICLES; BAA TOPICS SECTION II.A1: 1.1X 1.2X 2.1X 2.3, 3.2, X 3

2008 LEWIS' EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

NASA AERONAUTICAL MISSIONS NEED HIGH-TEMPERATURE ELECTRONICS AND SENSORS FOR REAL TIME HEALTH MONITORING OF AERONAUTIC ENGINES TO IMPROVE AVIATION SA

THIS STATEMENT OF WORK AND BUDGET REGARDS FUNDING FOR THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONAND THE JOHNS HOPKINS

AVIATION TECH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

STEPPING STARS: A MULTI-STATE MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL SPACE GRANT STEM ENGAGEMENT PROJECT

"EXPERIMENTALLY VALIDATED COMPUTER MODELING OF HIGH TEMPERATURE ADHESIVES" OBJECTIVE(S): THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE, B

HIGH GROWTH

MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION HAS ASSEMBLED A TEAM TO DEVELOP A MICRO FABRICATED OPTICAL SEISMOMETER FROSTY BASED ON WHISPERING GALLERY MODE TECHNOLOGY. THE CONCEPT ALREADY VERIFIED USING MESO-SCALE COMPONENTS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR THE DEMANDING CONDITIONS FOUND ON EUROPA AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM (AND BEYOND). FOR EUROPA IN PARTICULAR THIS SENSOR WILL ALLOW SURFACE-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF ICE CRUST THICKNESS AND SEISMIC ACTIVITY. PLANETARY EXPLORATION PRESENTS CONSIDERABLE CHALLENGES TO THE HARDWARE. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ON EUROPA IS 90K (140K AT THE EQUATOR NEAR DARK MATERIAL DURING DAYTIME AND NEAR 50K AT THE POLES) AND RADIATION NEAR 540 REM PER DAY AS EUROPA ORBITS WITHIN JUPITER S RADIATION BELTS. THIS ALL-OPTICAL SEISMOMETER AFFORDS ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTATION. THE PROPOSED SEISMOMETER WILL BE COMPACT AND WILL REQUIRE LOW POWER TO OPERATE. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE SEISMOMETER AND THE ATTENDING ELECTRONICS WILL BE CONDUCTED USING OPTICAL FIBERS THUS MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF HIGH RADIATION CHARACTERISTIC OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION. THE SILICON-BASED MONOLITHIC FABRICATION WILL ENSURE THAT THE INSTRUMENT IS ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE RIGOR OF SPACE TRAVEL. IN THE PROPOSED CONCEPT OPTICAL WHISPERING GALLERY MODES (WGM) ALSO KNOWN AS MORPHOLOGY DEPENDENT RESONANCES (MDR) ARE USED TO MEASURE MINUTE VARIATIONS IN THE RESONANCES OF AN OPTICAL MICRO-RESONATOR AFFECTED BY THE MOTION OF A PROOF MASS. THESE RESONANCES AFFORD A VERY HIGH OPTICAL QUALITY FACTOR Q GREATER THAN 10^6. DUE TO THE HIGH Q-FACTORS THE LINEWIDTHS OF THESE RESONANCES CAN BE EXTREMELY NARROW MAKING THEM HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO ANY CHANGE IN THE MORPHOLOGY (SHAPE SIZE INDEX OF REFRACTION) OF THE RESONATOR OR ITS IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS (PROOF MASS IN THIS CASE). THE MICRO-FABRICATION TECHNIQUES WILL ENTAIL SILICON PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY AND DEEP REACTIVE ION ETCHING (DRIE) FOR PRECISE POSITIONING OF THE COMPONENTS. THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL EXTEND OVER TWO YEARS. THE FIRST YEAR WILL ENTAIL THE FABRICATION AND TESTING OF THE OPTICAL RESONATOR AND THE COMPLETION OF THE SEISMOMETER. THE SECOND YEAR WILL SEE THE FABRICATION AND TESTING OF THE SEISMOMETER. BECAUSE OF THE LOW SWAP SUCH A SEISMOMETER WILL BE SUITABLE FOR NASA S ROBOTIC MISSIONS.

RADID AERIAL SMALL METHANE LEAK SURVEY

PURPOSE: THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO CREATE URBAN AGRICULTURE SITES (UFARM) TO EXPLORE HOW PRECISION AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE FOOD QUALITY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS. ROOFTOP FARMS ON FACTORIES AND OTHER BUILDINGS WITH FLAT ROOFS WILL BE USED AS POSSIBLE SITES. TECHNIQUES SUCH AS PRECISIONS SENSORS, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES, AUTOMATIC FERTIGATION SYSTEMS, DATA MANAGEMENT, WILL BE EXPLORE WITH THE GOAL OF IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH YIELD AT THE SITE. THE PROPOSED WORK HAS THE POTENTIAL ENHANCE URBAN AGRICULTURE, PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY FOOD OPTIONS FOR URBAN POPULATIONS. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL ALSO PROVIDE PLUS PROVIDING OUTREACH, EDUCATIONAL AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TO THE LOCAL POPULATION. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: THE ACTIVITIES WITH THE PROPOSED GRANT ARE FOLLOWS:-EXPLORATION OF URBAN FARMING SITES: IDENTIFY ROOFTOP AREAS WITH SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AN URBAN FARM. INDOOR FACILITIES WILL BE CONSIDERED AS WELL.-EXPLORING TECHNIQUES IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE TO IMPROVE CROP YIELD IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, SUCH AS INCLUDING REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND AUTOMATED IRRIGATION, -EXPLORING ADVANCED SENSING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND ACCESSIBILITY. -INVESTIGATE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR PRECISION FARMING, ENHANCING URBAN FARMING PRACTICES BY OPTIMIZING WATER AND NUTRIENT USE.-DEVELOP MODELS OF ROOFTOP FARMING, INCLUDING VERTICAL FARMING, HYDROPONICS, AND AEROPONICS -PROVIDE PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT REPORTS TO STAKEHOLDERS-WORKSHOPS AND EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS: OUTREACH, STEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT-COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THE OVERALL EXPECTED OUTCOME IS TO DEVELOP AN URBAN AGRICULTURAL CENTER THAT WILL PROVIDE LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE TO URBAN AREAS THAT HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO FRESH PRODUCE. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES ARE:- ENHANCED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY OF URBAN FARMS- IMPROVED USES OF LOCAL RESOURCES- IMPROVED ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY.- PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS TO THE LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION- CREATING POSITIVE SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY IMPACTINTENDED BENEFICIARIES: THE CLEVELAND COMMUNITY.SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES: NOT APPLICABLE

THIS EFFORT OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO COLLABORATE WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND ENGINEERING MENTORS TO SOLVE AUTHENTIC N

THIS ACTION TRANSFERS $781 001 FROM NNC06ZA43A TO NEW TASK NUMBER NNC07ZA20A AND OBLIGATES $80 000.

RECEPTIVITY AND TRANSITION OVER BLUNT CONFIGURATIONS UNDER NOISY AND QUIET HYPERSONIC CONDITIONS

CONG. SETASIDES, MUSEUMS

WE PROPOSE A SERIES OF BALLOON CAMPAIGNS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE EVERY SUMMER IN 2021 2022 AND 2023 IN INDIA AND SAUDI ARABIA TO STUDY THE NATURE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE ATAL.

UPDATING THE COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPACE TRAVEL WILL REQUIRE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES TO BE DEVELOPED ALLOWING US TO

SAP PURCHASE REQUISITION: 4200293672

SPACE DEBRIS DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING AN IN-SITU LIDAR SENSOR PLATFORM

REAL-TIME OPTICAL MEMS-BASED SEISMONMETER

MISSION OVERVIEW AND PLATFORMS: ACTIVATE WILL DEPLOY TWO COMPLEMENTARY AIRCRAFT OVER THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN - THE NASA LARC HU-25 FALCON AND B-200 KING AIR. THE HU-25 ACQUIRES IN SITU MEASUREMENTS BELOW IN AND ABOVE CLOUDS. THE B-200 FLIES ABOVE CLOUDS TO REMOTELY MEASURE AEROSOLS AND CLOUDS USING THE HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR-2 (HSRL-2) THE RESEARCH SCANNING POLARIMETER (RSP) AND DEPLOYS DROPSONDES TO MEASURE THE ATMOSPHERIC STATE. SINCE BOTH AIRCRAFT AND THE MAJORITY OF IN SITU AND REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS ARE BASED AT LARC ADJACENT TO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC STUDY REGION ACTIVATE WILL ACQUIRE A STATISTICALLY ROBUST DATASET THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE SERIES OF FLIGHTS (~50 JOINT AIRPLANE MISSIONS PER YEAR) IN EACH OF THREE YEARS (~600 HOURS AND ~150 FLIGHTS OVER THREE YEARS FOR EACH AIRPLANE). WE WILL SAMPLE A WIDE RANGE OF AEROSOL AND CLOUD CONDITIONS BY PLANNING FEBRUARY JUNE FLIGHTS. INSTRUMENTS AND MODELS: ALL INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED FOR ACTIVATE SCIENCE OBJECTIVES ARE MATURE (TRL 9); THESE ADVANCED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU INSTRUMENTS PROVIDE A LOW-RISK HIGH-IMPACT APPROACH FOR BOTH OBTAINING CRITICAL ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS TO RELATE AEROSOLS CLOUDS AND METEOROLOGY AND IMPROVING MODELS. ACTIVATE ALSO PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE THE ABILITY OF A NEW COMPACT AIRBORNE RADIOMETER TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH MEASUREMENT. ACTIVATE INCLUDES A SUITE OF MULTI-SCALE MODELS AND A DIVERSE SCIENCE ANALYSIS AND MODELING TEAM WITH BROAD EXPERTISE IN INTEGRATING AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE DATA TO ADVANCE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF AEROSOLCLOUD- METEOROLOGY INTERACTIONS. THE ACTIVATE TEAM BRINGS TOGETHER EXPERTS IN AIRBORNE IN SITU AND REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSES MODEL DEVELOPMENT SATELLITE RETRIEVALS AND FIELD CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES LINKING NASA SATELLITE DATA AND SCIENCE TO ENHANCE FIRE EMISSIONS WITHIN EPA'S NATIONAL EMISSIONS INVENTOR

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) FOR GTOSAT: A 6U CUBESAT IN GEOSYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER ORBIT TO STUDY RADIATION BELT DYNAMICS A PROPOSAL TO BE SUBMITTED TO NASA S HELIOPHYSICS TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT FOR SCIENCE (H-TIDES) OPPORTUNITY PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 01 FEB 2018 - 31 JAN 2022 (4 YEARS TOTAL) AEROSPACE IS PARTNERING AS A CO-INVESTIGATOR (COI) INSTITUTE WITH NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER TO PROPOSE A 4-YEAR 6U CUBESAT MISSION WITH THE PRIMARY SCIENCE GOAL OF ADVANCING OUR QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF ACCELERATION AND LOSS OF RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS IN THE EARTH S OUTER RADIATION BELT. FROM A NEAR-EQUATORIAL GEOSYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER ORBIT (GTO) GTOSAT WILL MEASURE ELECTRON SPECTRA AND PITCH ANGLES OF BOTH THE SEED AND THE ENERGIZED ELECTRON POPULATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY USING AN INNOVATIVE COMPACT ENERGETIC PARTICLE DETECTOR. A BOOM-MOUNTED FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER WILL PROVIDE 3-AXIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE AMBIENT LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD. THESE HIGH QUALITY PARTICLE AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS ENABLE DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF SPECTRAL AND PITCH ANGLE EVOLUTION OF THE OUTER RADIATION BELT AND CALCULATION OF PHYSICALLY SIGNIFICANT QUANTITIES SUCH AS PHASE SPACE DENSITY (PSD) AND ITS RADIAL GRADIENTS WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN RADIAL TRANSPORT AND IN-SITU MODES OF ELECTRON ENERGIZATION. GTOSAT WILL FLY IN A HIGHLY ELLIPTICAL GTO WITH NOMINAL APOGEE NEAR 6.6 RE. A LIKELY OFFEQUATORIAL INCLINATION MEANS GTOSAT WILL SAMPLE THE PARTICLE DYNAMICS OF THE OUTER RADIATION BELT BEYOND 6.6 RE WELL BEYOND THE VAN ALLEN PROBES PROVIDING TWO RADIAL PROFILES OF THE RADIATION BELTS EVERY ORBIT (~11 HOURS). AEROSPACE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A HARDWARE DELIVERABLE FOR THIS PROJECT: THE ENERGETIC PARTICLE INSTRUMENT THAT WILL BE USED TO OBSERVE ELECTRONS IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 200 KEV TO 2 MEV. IN ADDITION TO THE FUNDING REQUIRED FOR THAT DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY AEROSPACE S FUNDED CONTRIBUTION WILL ALSO CONSIST OF CONSULTATION DURING THE MISSION AND SPACECRAFT DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE ON EARTH'S OUTER RADIATION BELT ELECTRONS AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS FOR THE DATA SET AFTER IT IS PRODUCED. THE PARTICLE TELESCOPE TO BE DEVELOPED BY AEROSPACE WILL BE A NEAR IDENTICAL COPY OF THE MAGEIS MEDIUM FLIGHT INSTRUMENT DEVELOPED FOR NASA S VAN ALLEN PROBES. THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MISSION AND INSTRUMENTS AEROSPACE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN TEAM MEETINGS AND DESIGN REVIEWS. AEROSPACE SCIENTISTS WILL ALSO SERVE ON THE GTOSAT SCIENCE TEAM AND CONTRIBUTE TO IN FLIGHT CALIBRATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS OF GTOSAT DATA AFTER LAUNCH AND DISSEMINATION OF GTOSAT RESULTS TO THE GREATER SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. WORK BREAKDOWN: YEAR 1: DESIGN OF INSTRUMENT YEAR 2: MANUFACTURE CALIBRATE TEST AND DELIVER INSTRUMENT YEAR 3: OPERATIONS SUPPORT YEAR 4: SCIENCE TEAM EFFORT DATA ANALYSIS AND DISSEMINATION

PURPOSE: UPDATE STATE/REGIONAL SYSTEM PLAN. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT UPDATES THE EXISTING OKLAHOMA AIRPORT SYSTEM PLAN ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY. THIS PROJECT FUNDS PHASE 1, WHICH CONSISTS OF DATA COLLECTION. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

THIS PROJECT WILL HELP SUSTAIN THE READINESS AND LETHALITY OF DOD PERSONNEL, ASSETS, AND OPERATIONS BY ENSURING THE PROPER SITING OF ENERGY PROJECTS AND TALL STRUCTURES THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. CURRENTLY, THERE IS NO STATEWIDE OR REGIONAL COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION WITH THE MILITARY AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO HELP PREVENT THE SITING OF ENERGY PROJECTS AND TALL STRUCTURES FROM ADVERSELY AFFECTING DOD TEST, TRAINING, AND MILITARY OPERATIONS. AS A RESULT OF THE ONGOING DISCUSSION BETWEEN OKLAHOMA MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, PRIVATE DEVELOPERS, AND LANDOWNERS, SEVERAL REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTNERS IDENTIFIED THE NEED TO COLLABORATE ON COMPATIBILITY PLANNING REGARDING THE LOCATION OF TALL STRUCTURES AND INCOMPATIBLE USES OF LAND AND THE NEED TO PRESERVE AND SUSTAIN THE MILITARY READINESS OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, FORT SILL, TULSA AIR NATIONAL GUARD, AND TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, WILL ROGERS AIR NATIONAL GUARD AS WELL AS THE MILITARY'S NUMEROUS OTHER OPERATING LOCATIONS SUCH AS REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL AIRPORTS. THIS MULTI-REGIONAL GROUP OF JURISDICTIONS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS HAVE AGREED TO COLLABORATE ON A JOINT EFFORT THE OKLAHOMA MILITARY AIRSPACE COMPATIBILITY ASSESSMENT MAPPING PORTAL OMACAMP PROJECT.

THIS PROJECT WILL HELP SUSTAIN THE READINESS AND LETHALITY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL, ASSETS, AND OPERATIONS BY ENSURING THE PROPER SITING OF ENERGY PROJECTS AND TALL STRUCTURES THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. CURRENTLY, THERE IS NO STATEWIDE OR REGIONAL COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION WITH THE MILITARY AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO HELP PREVENT THE SITING OF ENERGY PROJECTS AND TALL STRUCTURES FROM ADVERSELY AFFECTING DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TEST, TRAINING, AND MILITARY OPERATIONS. AS A RESULT OF THE ONGOING DISCUSSION BETWEEN OKLAHOMA MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, PRIVATE DEVELOPERS, AND LANDOWNERS, SEVERAL REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTNERS IDENTIFIED THE NEED TO COLLABORATE ON COMPATIBILITY PLANNING REGARDING THE LOCATION OF TALL STRUCTURES AND INCOMPATIBLE USES OF LAND AND THE NEED TO PRESERVE AND SUSTAIN THE MILITARY READINESS OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, FORT SILL, TULSA AIR NATIONAL GUARD, AND TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, WILL ROGERS AIR NATIONAL GUARD AS WELL AS THE MILITARY NUMEROUS OTHER OPERATING LOCATIONS SUCH AS REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL AIRPORTS. THIS MULTI REGIONAL GROUP OF JURISDICTIONS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS HAVE AGREED TO COLLABORATE ON A JOINT EFFORT THE OKLAHOMA MILITARY AIRSPACE COMPATIBILITY ASSESSMENT MAPPING PORTAL PROJECT.

GREAT LAKES AEROSPACE

VISIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE SOURCES OF THE AURORAL WIND AEROSPACE CO-I: THIS G/LCAS CO-1

FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS AND RELIABLE FLIGHT ENVELOPE ASSESSMENTTHE PROPOSED RESEARCH DEVELOPS

TAS::57 3600::TAS "ELECTROACTIVE RADIATION-SHIELDING BORON NITRIDE POLYMER COMPOSITES"

PURPOSE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO BRIDGE THE GAP AND INCREASE THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT RESOURCES IN NORTHEAST OHIOS INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHED SMALL MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: OUTREACH, ENGAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION IN PHASES TO BRING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO MARKET AND GROW MANUFACTURERS. PROVIDE CONSULTING SERVICES INCLUDING TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO MANUFACTURERS. EXPECTED OUTCOMES: INCREASE REVENUE GENERATED BY BUSINESSES, PROVIDE NEW CONTRACT OPPORTUNITIES BY COMPANY PARTICIPANTS, INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SMALL BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS IN IDENTIFIED INDUSTRIES AND GOVERNMENT AND CREATE JOBS. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES: REGIONAL STARTUPS, SMALL BUSINESSES AND INVENTORS WILL BENEFIT FROM THE ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY. MANUFACTURING COMPANIES AND SUPPLIERS WILL BENEFIT FROM FORMAL PROGRAMS AND POTENTIALLY EXPAND THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS. COMPANIES WITH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AGREEMENTS WITH REGIONAL UNIVERSIT

REAL-TIME OPTICAL MEMS-BASED SEISMOMETER: WHIGS

IMPROVE EXISTING AIRPORT I

EO14042 MINIATURIZED CHARGING MITIGATION SHELL INSTRUMENT FOR MAGNETOSPHERIC COLD PLASMA SENSORS

CLOUD SCAVENGING IS THE DOMINANT REMOVAL PROCESS FOR A WHOLE SUITE OF AEROSOLS BUT MODEL PARAMETERIZATIONS OF THIS PROCESS ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTING TO LARGE UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SIMULATED LOADINGS AND RADIATIVE FORCING OF AEROSOLS. IPCC AR5 HAS IDENTIFIED THE IMPROVEMENT OF WET DEPOSITION AND SCAVENGING PARAMETERIZATIONS IN LARGE-SCALE MODELS AS A PRIORITY. THE CURRENT WET SCAVENGING PARAMETERIZATION IN THE NASA GEOS-5 MODEL IS NOT EXPLICITLY LINKED TO CLOUD DROPLET AND ICE CRYSTAL NUCLEATION. RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF TWO-MOMENT CLOUD MICROPHYSICS IN GEOS-5 ALLOWS TREATING CLOUD SCAVENGING OF AEROSOLS MORE PHYSICALLY WITH SELF- CONSISTENCY. WE PROPOSE A 4-YEAR PROJECT TO DEVELOP MORE PHYSICALLY-BASED PARAMETERIZATIONS OF WET SCAVENGING AND STUDY THE IMPACT OF THEIR UNCERTAINTIES ON AEROSOL DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS IN GEOS-5. OUR RESEARCH OBJECTIVES ARE: (1). DEVELOP A MORE PHYSICALLY DETAILED SIZE-DEPENDENT BELOW-CLOUD SCAVENGING PARAMETERIZATION BY RAIN AND SNOW IN THE GEOS-5 MODEL (2). DEVELOP MORE PHYSICALLY BASED SIZE-DEPENDENT PARAMETERIZATIONS OF IN-CLOUD (NUCLEATION AND IMPACTION) SCAVENGING OF AEROSOLS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTIONS (GOCART BULK AEROSOL OR MODAL AEROSOL MODULE AEROSOL MICROPHYSICS COUPLED WITH TWO-MOMENT CLOUD MICROPHYSICS) IN GEOS-5. (3). ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF THE NEW AEROSOL SCAVENGING PARAMETERIZATIONS ON THE GEOS-5 SIMULATED AEROSOL MASS AND NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS SIZE DISTRIBUTION DEPOSITION FLUXES AND AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS AND EVALUATE WITH SURFACE IN SITU AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS. QUANTIFY THE UNCERTAINTIES IN THOSE PARAMETERIZATIONS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON GEOS-5 AEROSOL SIMULATIONS. (4). ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF THE NEW AEROSOL SCAVENGING PARAMETERIZATIONS ON CLOUD PROPERTIES AND PRECIPITATION AND EVALUATE WITH SATELLITE AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS. EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF UNCERTAINTIES IN THOSE PARAMETERIZATIONS ON AEROSOL DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS UPON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM (CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION). THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN MORE PHYSICALLY-BASED PARAMETERIZATIONS OF AEROSOL SCAVENGING BY RAIN AND SNOW IN GEOS-5 AND WILL IMPROVE CONFIDENCE IN OUR ESTIMATES OF AEROSOL BURDEN LIFETIME AND DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS. THIS PROPOSAL DIRECTLY RESPONDS TO THE RESEARCH THEME "CONSTITUENTS IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM" IN THE SOLICITATION BY IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS OF CLOUD SCAVENGING OF AEROSOLS AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE NASA GEOS-5 MODEL. THIS RESEARCH ADDRESSES NASA'S STRATEGIC GOAL 3A1 TO "UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY FOR CHANGES IN THE OZONE LAYER CLIMATE FORCING AND AIR QUALITY ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION."

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A NEW GROUND-MAGNETOMETER FOR INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC ARRAY GEOSPACE STUDIES (IMAGS)

ARMADILLO AEROSPACE: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTTHIS AGREEMENT WAS ORIGINALLY NUMBERED NNJ10HA98A. DUE TO INTERNAL SYSTEM ISSUES THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT

PURPOSE: ANUMA AEROSPACE IS DEVELOPING THE PERSISTENTLY-ELEVATED, GAS-FREE, AEROSTATIC SENSOR UTILITY SYSTEM (PEGASUS), WHICH WILL WORK LIKE A DATA BUOY IN THE SKY, CONTINUOUSLY COLLECTING AND TRANSMITTING WEATHER DATA FROM THE MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL) WITH THE DATA BEING MADE AVAILABLE VIA APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) ON THE (INTERNET) CLOUD. THIS IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH USING ANUMA AEROSPACES PATENTED, PARTIAL-VACUUM LIFT (PVL) CELL AS THE AEROSTATIC LIFT COMPONENT WITH ONBOARD PHOTOVOLTAIC EQUIPMENT AND BATTERIES TO PROVIDE POWER TO ONBOARD SYSTEMS, INCLUDING WEATHER DATA SENSORS, COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, VACUUM PUMP FOR BUOYANCY CONTROL, AND A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL SYSTEM. THE MAIN TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES OF THE PVL CELL ARE THE ABILITY TO VARY AEROSTATIC LIFT AND THEREFORE ALTITUDE BY VARYING THE INTERNAL PRESSURE, THE ABILITY TO MAINTAIN LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE, AND THE ELIMINATION OF EXPENSIVE, NON-RENEWABLE HELIUM LIFTING GAS. PEGASUS IS INTENDED TO REMAIN ALOFT FOR UP TO TWO YEARS BETWEEN MAINTENANCE INTERVALS WITH THE SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL SYSTEM NAVIGATING WINDS AND AIR CURRENTS TO REMAIN WITHIN PREDEFINED BOUNDARIES WITHIN THE MARINE ABL.

THE PRIMARY SCIENCE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT ("AURORAL JET") IS TO UNDERSTAND THE TWO DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE CURRENT CLOSURE INS

TAS::89 0331::TAS RECOVERY RECOVERY ACT: TURBINE RELIABILITY AND OPERABILITY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH THE USE OF DIRECT DETECTION LIDAR

THE UNPRECEDENTED IMPACTS OF THE HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA'APAI SUBMARINE VOLCANIC ERUPTION ON STRATOSPHERIC COMPOSITIONAND CLIMATE

SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FROM THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW TIME OF FLIGHT BY ENERGY MASS SPECTROMETER USING A NEW TECHNOLOGY: CARBON SOLID STATE DETECTORS (DIAMOND DETECTORS). THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT WILL FURTHER TEST A NEW INSTRUMENT CONCEPT USING DIAMOND DETECTORS IN A TIME OF FLIGHT BY ENERGY MASS SPECTROMETER. DIAMOND DETECTORS ARE A RELATIVELY NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THEY HAVE MANY BENEFITS OVER THE STANDARD SILICON AND GERMANIUM SOLID STATE DETECTORS. DIAMOND DETECTORS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER RADIATION TOLERANCE COMPARED TO SILICON AND GERMANIUM DETECTORS AND CRITICAL TO THIS PROPOSED PROJECT DIAMOND DETECTORS HAVE MUCH FASTER RESPONSE TIMES ON THE ORDER OF 10 PS (1E-11 SECONDS). WHEN COMBINED WITH COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ULTRA-FAST PREAMPLIFIERS AND ELECTRONICS WE HAVE ALREADY DEMONSTRATED IN THE LAB THAT TWO OF THESE DETECTORS CAN BE USED TO MEASURE THE TIME OF FLIGHT AND ENERGY DEPOSIT OF>10 MEV HEAVY IONS OVER A DETECTOR SEPARATION DISTANCE OF<10 CM. THOSE LAB TESTS SERVED AS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT OF THE SUCCESSFUL FUNCTIONALITY OF THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS OF THE NEW INSTRUMENT WHICH RAISED THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) OF THIS CONCEPT TO TRL-3.WE ARE PROPOSING TO CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS NEW INSTRUMENT CONCEPT AND DESIGN AND DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT THAT WILL BE TESTED IN A RELEVANT LAB ENVIRONMENT RAISING THE TRL TO TRL-6. IF SUCCESSFUL THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL RENDER THIS INSTRUMENT READY FOR INCLUSION ON PROPOSED MISSIONS OF OPPORTUNITY. THE PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT WILL BE DESIGNED WITH EFFICIENCY IN MIND WITH OUR GOAL BEING AN INSTRUMENT WITH SIZE WEIGHT AND POWER SPECIFICATIONS THAT WILL ALLOW IT TO BE FLIGHT-TESTED ON A FUTURE CUBESAT MISSION. THE INSTRUMENT DESIGN WILL BENEFIT FROM AEROSPACE S DECADES-LONG PARTICIPATION AND LEADERSHIP IN ENERGETIC PARTICLE TELESCOPE DESIGN; IT WILL INCORPORATE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART ELECTRONICS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY THAT AEROSPACE HAS DEVELOPED OVER ITS WELL-ESTABLISHED HISTORY DEVELOPING INSTRUMENTS FOR ENERGETIC PARTICLE DETECTION. FURTHERMORE WE WILL TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF AEROSPACE S LONG-STANDING PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB 88-INCH CYCLOTRON FACILITY WHERE WE WILL TEST THE PERFORMANCE OF THE INSTRUMENT AT DISCRIMINATING THE MASS AND MEASURING THE ENERGY OF A COCKTAIL OF DIFFERENT>10 MEV IONS (INCLUDING PROTONS). THIS PROJECT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF INSTRUMENT FOR THE DETECTION AND VERY HIGH ENERGY IONS PROVIDING A VERY ACCURATE MEASURE OF THE INCIDENT ION ENERGY AS WELL AS DISCRIMINATING THE MASS OF THE IONS ENABLING ION COMPOSITION STUDIES OF ENERGETIC POPULATIONS SUCH AS SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES (SEPS) TRAPPED RADIATION IN PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERES AND POTENTIALLY EVEN ANOMALOUS COSMIC RAYS. THE PROPOSED PROJECT ALSO TESTS A NEW TECHNOLOGY DIAMOND DETECTORS AND BROADENS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE POTENTIAL USES FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROCESS.

A NEW METHOD FOR PERFORMING EDL TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION WILL BE DEVELOPED AS AN EXTENSION OF THE STANDARD &QUOT;INERTIAL NAVIGATION&QUOT; APPROACH

TIME-RESOLVED LASER RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY FOR SCALAR MEASUREMENTS OF SWIRL-STABILIZED LIQUID-FUELED COM

TURBULENCE & TRANSITION STUDIES IN HYPERSONIC FLOWS: A MULTI-PART CAMPAIGN

HERE WE PROPOSE TO ACT AS INTERACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH AND AIR QUALITY APPLIED SCIENCES TEAM (HAQAST) WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL TO ENABLE ENHANCED USER DECISION MAKING FOR IMPROVING AIR QUALITY (AQ) AND HEALTH. OUR TEAM HAS EXTENSIVE AND BROAD EXP

TAS::89 0321::TAS TIDAL ENERGY SYSTEM WITH NO SUBMERGED ELECTRONICS OR HIGH-RATIO GEARS FOR ON-SHORE POWER GENERATION.

THE SUBJECT GRANT WAS ORIGINALLY AWARDED TO THE SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SWRI) IN THE AMOUNT OF $702,000 OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD, WITH INITIAL I

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS ARE TRANSFORMING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS WITH THE ADOPTION OF SOFTWARE RADIOS BECOMING MORE PREVALENT ACROSS COMMU

POLAR CEPPAD EXTENDED MISSION

WET SCAVENGING IS THE DOMINANT LOSS PROCESS FOR AEROSOLS BUT MODEL PARAMETERIZATIONS OF THIS PROCESS ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTING TO LARGE UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SIMULATED LOADINGS AND RADIATIVE FORCING OF AEROSOLS. CHARACTERIZING

GEM: DIFFUSE AND DISCRETE AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION EFFECTS ON MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING -THE AURORA, ALSO COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, DISPLAY DYNAMIC, BRILLIANT LIGHTS IN THE EARTH?S SKY DURING MAGNETIC DISTURBANCES THAT EMANATE FROM THE SUN. THE AURORA IS AN IMPORTANT SPACE WEATHER PHENOMENON THAT LINKS WHAT IS HAPPENING MUCH FARTHER AWAY FROM THE EARTH IN SPACE TO OUR ATMOSPHERE. DURING MAGNETICALLY DISTURBED CONDITIONS, ELECTRONS THAT PRECIPITATE OR RAIN DOWN INTO THE SKY CAUSE THESE BRILLIANT LIGHTS. THE PRECIPITATING ELECTRONS ARE A SOURCE OF ENERGY TO THE ATMOSPHERE AND CAN CAUSE SPACE WEATHER EFFECTS THAT ARE OF CONCERN TO SOCIETY AND NATIONAL SPACE SECURITY. FOR EXAMPLE, THE REDISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY FROM THE PRECIPITATING ELECTRONS CAN AFFECT PREDICTIONS OF ORBITS OF SATELLITES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND/OR PREDICTIONS OF THE LOCATION OF RE-ENTRY OF SPACECRAFT BACK TO EARTH. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WILL LEAD TO IMPROVED SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND MODELING OF THE VERY COMPLEX AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION EFFECTS. THE RESEARCH OUTCOMES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A BROADER NSF-SUPPORTED COMMUNITY EFFORT OF GEOSPACE ENVIRONMENT MODELING (GEM) FOR ADVANCING SPACE WEATHER MODELS. IT ENABLES TWO UNDERREPRESENTED FEMALE SCIENTISTS TO ENGAGE IN FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH THAT WILL POSITIVELY IMPACT NATIONAL SPACE SECURITY CONCERNS. THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE CAREER MENTORING OF AN EARLY CAREER FEMALE SCIENTIST AND RESEARCH TRAINING OF DIVERSE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT INTERNS AT THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION THAT ARE VITAL FOR SUPPORTING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF SPACE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO UNDERSTAND BETTER THE ROLE OF DIFFUSE AND DISCRETE AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION ON MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE (MI) ELECTRODYNAMIC COUPLING. THE SCIENCE QUESTIONS ARE (SQ1) HOW DOES DIFFUSE AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION AFFECT THE AURORAL IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY, HEIGHT-INTEGRATED CONDUCTANCE, FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS, AND THE IONOSPHERIC AND INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELD THROUGH THE ELECTRODYNAMIC MI COUPLING DURING MAGNETIC STORMS? CAN A MAGNETICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT OF THE PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND LOSS, INCLUDING DIFFUSE AURORAL PRECIPITATION, ACCOUNT FOR OBSERVED CONDUCTANCE (PFISR), FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS (AMPERE), AND ELECTRIC FIELDS (PFISR, DMSP, VAN ALLEN PROBES) DURING STORMS? (SQ2) WHAT ARE THE IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY AND HEIGHT-INTEGRATED CONDUCTANCE ASSOCIATED WITH REPRESENTATIVE DISCRETE AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN LOCALIZED REGIONS DURING MAGNETIC DISTURBANCES? WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF THE SUPERIMPOSED DIFFUSE AND LOCALIZED DISCRETE AURORAL ELECTRON PRECIPITATION ON THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELD AND PARTICLE TRANSPORT? TO ADDRESS SQ1, A COUPLING OF THREE MODELS WILL BE USED: (1) THE MAGNETICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY SELF-CONSISTENT RICE CONVECTION MODEL-EQUILIBRIUM (RCM-E) THAT CALCULATES INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND PRECIPITATION DUE TO THE EFFECT OF WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, (2) THE SUPERTHERMAL ELECTRON TRANSPORT (STET) MODEL THAT WILL MODIFY THE RCM-E PRECIPITATING ELECTRON FLUXES TO INCLUDE THE EFFECTS OF BACKSCATTER AND MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS BETWEEN CONJUGATE HEMISPHERES, AND (3) RESULTS FROM THE B3C AURORAL TRANSPORT MODEL THAT COMPUTES ALTITUDINAL PROFILES OF CONDUCTIVITY. TO ADDRESS SQ2, PARAMETERIZED REPRESENTATIVE GAUSSIAN AURORAL ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS WILL BE USED WITH STET AND THE B3C MODEL TO COMPUTE IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY. OBSERVATIONS SUCH AS GROUND-BASED PHOTOMETERS AND ALL SKY IMAGING DATA WILL BE USED TO CONSTRAIN THE INTEGRATED ELECTRON ENERGY FLUX, AND THE AVERAGE ENERGY OF THE DISCRETE AURORAL PRECIPITATION WILL BE PARAMETERIZED. SIMULATIONS WILL BE PERFORMED TO INCLUDE THE CONDUCTANCE AND POTENTIAL DROPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISCRETE AURORA IN A LOCALIZED REGION OVERLAPPING THE BROADER DIFFUSE AURORA TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS ON THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC PARTICLE TRANSPORT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THIS DOCUMENT DESCRIBES WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION IN SUPPORT OF AN INVESTIGATION PROPOSED BY THE NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CE

STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL COMPOSITION IS DOMINATED BY MEDIUM-TO-LARGE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS WHICH INJECT MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SULFUR INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.

THIS PROPOSAL REQUESTS FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO DEVELOP AND OPERATE RESEARCH PROGRAMS FOR THE PLACEMENT OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS AND UNIVERSITY UNDE

THE SCINTILLATION PREDICTION OBSERVATIONS RESEARCH TASK (SPORT) WILL MAKE PROGRESS ON THE VERY COMPELLING BUT DIFFICULT PROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING PRECONDITIONS LEADING TO EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLES. THESE IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED FOR DECADES. THEY ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF RADAR REFLECTIONS IN THE EQUATORIAL F-REGION IONOSPHERE AND CAUSE STRONG SCINTILLATIONS ON RADIO SIGNALS PASSING THROUGH THEM. THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BACKGROUND IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND THE IRREGULARITY REGIONS WHICH MAY INFLUENCE THEIR GROWTH TO HIGH ALTITUDES ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. SPORT WILL ADDRESS TWO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE PHENOMENA: (1) WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE IONOSPHERE THAT GIVES RISE TO THE GROWTH OF PLASMA BUBBLES THAT EXTEND INTO AND ABOVE THE F-PEAK AT DIFFERENT LONGITUDES? (2) HOW ARE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT SATELLITE ALTITUDES RELATED TO THE RADIO SCINTILLATIONS OBSERVED PASSING THROUGH THESE REGIONS?

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON ASIAN POLLUTION OUTFLOW AND LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT SUMMARY: ASIA WILL EMERGE OVE

A HIGH-LEVEL SCIENCE GOAL FROM NASA S HELIOPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY IS TO DETERMINE THE DYNAMICS&COUPLING OF EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE &ATMOSPHERE&THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR&TERRESTRIAL INPUTS.

THE VISION OF SPACE EXPLORATION IS TO BUILD A LONG TERM INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE HUMAN AND ROBOTIC EXP

LIBS BASED TOOL FOR VERIFICATION AND DECONTAMINATION OF SPACECRAFT. IN SOME CASES THE APPROVED CLEANING METHODS PRESCRIBED BY THE NASA PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICE (PPO) TO MEET THE MAXIMUM BIOLOADING REQUIREMENT ON HIGHER CATEGORY MISSIONS MAY BE NOT BE POSSIBLE WITH CURRENT LIFE-DETECT INSTRUMENTS THAT CARRY BIO CHIPS. THIS IS BECAUSE THE CHIPS CANNOT BE BAKED OR EXPOSED TO CHEMICALS. MOREOVER A HARDWARE RE-CONTAMINATION OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS REQUIRES RE-CLEANING WHICH MAY NOT BE PRACTICAL AFTER SYSTEMS INTEGRATION. WE WILL PROPOSE THE APPLICATION OF MULTI-PULSE MODULATED LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) TO DESTROY BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION WITHOUT SUBSTRATE DAMAGE AND TO CREATE A LIBS SPECTRAL LIBRARY FOR SPACECRAFT MATERIALS THAT WILL ENABLE IN SITU VERIFICATION OF THE DE-CONTAMINATION PROCESS DURING CLEANING. USING THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONS RENOWNED LASER AND DETECTOR CAPABILITIES COUPLED WITH LASER AMPLITUDE MODULATION AND MULTIPULSE TECHNIQUES ALREADY DEVELOPED WE HAVE ASSEMBLED AN ADVANCED LIBS SYSTEM THAT COULD BE MINIATURIZED AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE. WE PLAN TO APPLY THE ADVANCED LIBS SYSTEM TO CREATE A SPECTRAL LIBRARY FOR SPACECRAFT MATERIALS AND KNOWN BIO-CONTAMINATION. KEY GOALS ARE CHARACTERIZING LIBS DAMAGE THRESHOLDS FOR LIKELY SUBSTRATES AND DEVELOPING A SPECTROSCOPIC PROCESS THAT UTILIZES MULTI-COLOR MULTIPULSE AND TIME DOMAIN DELAY EXCITATION TO ACHIEVE THE BEST DETECTION LIMIT FOR VERIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS AT THE SAME TIME. LIBS (ALSO KNOWN AS EMMA) IS A MICROANALYSIS TOOL THAT OPERATES BY ANALYZING THE SIGNATURE OF THE LASER PRODUCED PLASMA TO CHARACTERIZE THE ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION IN METALS ROCKS (E.G. MARS 2020 ROVER) AND MATERIALS. LIBS RELIES ON FLORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY WITH ITS INHERENTLY HIGH DETECTION LIMITS. LIBS IS USEFUL BECAUSE ONLY NANO TO PICOGRAMS OF MATERIAL NEED TO BE REMOVED WITH MINIMAL SAMPLE PREPARATION. A KEY BYPRODUCT IS THE FORMATION OF THE PLASMA WHICH THIS PROPOSAL WILL DEMONSTRATE AS A MEANS TO REMOVING BIOLOGICALS FROM SURFACES. IN MOST LIBS TOOLS THE LASER REPETITION RATE IS KEPT LOW TO ALLOW THE PLASMA TO QUENCH BETWEEN LASER SHOTS. THIS INCREASES THE SIGNAL TO NOISE FOR SPECTRUM GATHERING. OUR PROPOSED APPROACH INCORPORATES TIME-DOMAIN MODULATION OF THE LASER REPETITION RATE AND AMPLITUDE TO FEED THE PLASMA FOR BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL WITH IN-BETWEEN SPURTS OF LOWER-REPETITION RATE SPECTRUM GATHERING. MOREOVER WE INTEND TO ENHANCE THE LIBS TECHNIQUE BY FURTHER DEVELOPING OUR DOUBLE PULSE MULTI-COLOR EXPOSURE THAT WILL ALLOW CHARACTERIZATION OF SPECIES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO IONIZE. THESE RESULTS ARE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE AEROSPACE CORP HAS DEVELOPED A DEEP KNOWLEDGE BASE IN PRECISE FOCUSED NANOSCALE LASER ABLATION TECHNIQUES THAT IS WORLD CLASS. WE HAVE DESIGNED A LIBS SYSTEM WITH SIGNIFICANTLY MORE VERSATILITY (MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS AND RELATION RATES) AND POTENTIALLY MUCH LOWER BACKGROUND WITH HIGHER DETECTION LIMITS THEN THAT FOUND IN THE LITERATURE. WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED ITS FUNCTIONAL USE ON AL SI AND KAPTON. WE WILL PROPOSE A PROGRAM TO CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE WAVELENGTH AND REPETITION RATE EFFECTS TO OPTIMIZE THE SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS MATERIALS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATES THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO PLANETARY PROTECTION THE GOAL IS TO DEMONSTRATE A CLEANING AND VERIFICATION METHOD FOR PLANETARY PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS THROUGH THE FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION: TEST A NUMBER OF SPACECRAFT MATERIALS AND NATIVE BACTERIA WITH RESULTING SPECTRA COMPARED WITH THAT IN LITERATURE BEGIN TO ESTABLISH A SPECTRAL LIBRARY OF MATERIALS AND A PROCESS FOR OBTAINING THE BEST DETECTION LIMITS QUANTIFY DETECTION LIMITS PURPOSE OUR ADVANCED LIBS SYSTEM WITH SOFTWARE/HARDWARE CONTROL THAT COUPLES LASER AMPLITUDE MODULATION AND MULTIPULSE TECHNIQUES SUCH THAT THEY ARE OPTIMIZED FOR PLANETARY PROTECTION APPLICATIONS.

IMPROVE EXISTING AIRPORT

IMPROVE EXISTING AIRPORT

THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPOSAL TITLED, "HYPERSONIC EXPERIMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE US AIR FORCE

KEY, CENTRAL OBJECTIVES - THE OHIO SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM (OSGC) IS PROPOSING A CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE AND INCREASE THE NUMBER

ROBOTIC SCIENCE MISSIONS TO THE SUB-SURFACE OCEANS OF EUROPA AND ENCELADUS, AS WELL AS DEEP INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MARTIAN ICE CAP, ALL REQUIRE A SM

DELAWARE AEROSPACE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC.TO CREATE A COMMUNITY MODEL FOR FORMAL AND INFORMAL EARTH AND SPACE EDUCATIONTHE GOAL OF THE PROJECT I

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM FOR AEROSPACE (AMTCA) A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO ADVANCE U.S. AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES.

UNEXPECTED OBSERVATIONS BY THE MMS/FEEPS SENSORS OF MULTIPLE DISPERSIVE ENERGETIC ELECTRON SIGNATURES [FENNELL ET AL. 2016] HIGHLIGHTED THE EXISTENCE OF "MICROINJECTIONS". THAT IS ELECTRONS ORGANIZED INTO CLUSTERS OF TEMPORAL ELEMENTS WHERE THE HIGHEST ENERGY ELECTRONS ARE OBSERVED FIRST FOLLOWED BY EVER LOWER ENERGY ELECTRONS UNTIL THEY MAP OUT ENERGY VERSUS TIME PROFILES REMINISCENT OF CLASSIC SUBSTORM INJECTIONS BUT ON A MUCH SHORTER TIME SCALE AND USUALLY REPETITIVE. THEY OCCURRED IN THE MIDNIGHT TO DUSK LOCAL TIME SECTOR ABOVE ~8 RE GEOCENTRIC. AN INTRIGUING FEATURE WAS THAT THE MICROINJECTION ELECTRONS WERE DOMINANTLY FIELD ALIGNED. THE DISPERSIVE NATURE OF THE ELECTRONS LED FENNELL ET AL. [2016] TO ARGUE THAT THEIR INJECTION HAD OCCURRED FAR FROM THE OBSERVATION POINT AND THAT THEY GRADIENT-CURVATURE DRIFTED TO THE MMS FLEET. DRIFT TRACINGS INDICATED THAT THEY WERE GENERATED NEAR THE MAGNETOPAUSE BOUNDARY SUNWARD OF DUSK AND MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES ULF WAVES OR FLUX TRANSFER EVENTS. IT WAS ALSO SPECULATED THAT THESE MICROINJECTIONS MIGHT PLAY A ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEED ELECTRON POPULATION THAT IS ULTIMATELY ACCELERATED TO HIGHER ENERGIES TO MAKE UP THE OUTER ZONE RADIATION BELT. FROM THOSE INITIAL OBSERVATIONS ONE COULD NOT DETERMINE KEY FEATURES OF THE PROCESS NAMELY: HOW THE ELECTRON MICROINJECTIONS WERE GENERATED WHERE THEY WERE GENERATED AND WHY THEY WERE FIELD ALIGNED. MICROINJECTIONS HAVE A VARIABLE RANGE OF ENERGY-TIME SIGNATURES. WITHIN MICROINJECTION CLUSTERS ONE OFTEN OBSERVES THAT THEIR TEMPORAL PROFILES CAN CROSS EACH OTHER INDICATING THEY DRIFTED DIFFERENT DISTANCES. THIS IMPLIES THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE SOURCE REGION ACTIVE AT THE SAME TIME OR THAT THE SOURCE REGION ITSELF IS MOVING AS IT "THROWS OFF" MULTIPLE ELECTRON INJECTIONS. SOME MICROINJECTIONS HAVE A DOUBLE PEAKED SPECTRUM WHICH DISPERSES IN TIME. THESE MIGHT BE OVERLAPPING INJECTIONS OR INJECTIONS OF A SOURCE POPULATION THAT ALREADY HAD A SPECTRAL PEAK. IN ADDITION THE REPETITION RATE OF MICROINJECTIONS IN A CLUSTER DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE CONSTANT. THE OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST THERE ARE INTERVALS WHERE THE TIME BETWEEN MICROINJECTIONS IS SHORTER OR LONGER WITH THE SLOWER REPETITION RATE BEING UP TO TWICE AS LONG AS THE AVERAGE FOR A CLUSTER. ALL SUCH FEATURES MUST BE RELATED TO THE GENERATION PROCESS. THUS WE PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING INVESTIGATIONS. 1. WE WILL ANALYZE THE COMPLETE SET OF MICROINJECTIONS OBTAINED BY MMS FROM JULY 2015 THROUGH NOV. 2017. WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THEIR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL FEATURES AND THE CONDITIONS IN THE INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM AND INSIDE THE MAGNETOSPHERE WHEN THEY OCCURRED. 2. WE WILL USE DRIFT CALCULATIONS IN FIELD MODELS TO INFER WHERE THESE MICROINJECTION POPULATIONS CAME FROM AND WHERE THEY GO AFTER PASSING THE MMS SATELLITES. WE CAN THEN CHECK OTHER OBSERVATIONS LIKE THOSE FROM VAN ALLEN PROBES GOES GEOTAIL AND THEMIS TO HELP DEFINE THE SOURCE POPULATION AND HELP DETERMINE IF THE MICROINJECTIONS MAINTAIN THEIR IDENTITY AS THEY DRIFT BEYOND MMS. 3. WE WILL USE THE INFORMATION GAINED TO UNRAVEL THE GENERATION PROCESS OR PROCESSES USING MODELS TO INVESTIGATE THE PHYSICS AND TO PINPOINT THEIR SOURCE REGION(S). FOR EXAMPLE WE WILL TRACE PARTICLES THROUGH THE FIELDS FROM GLOBAL MHD AND RCME MODELS TO INFER THE ENERGY CHANGES AND PARTICLE ORGANIZATION BY THE KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ ACTIVITY ULF WAVES AND FLUX TRANSFER EVENTS THEY PREDICT. THESE STUDIES DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE MMS GOAL OF UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE RECONNECTION AND BOUNDARY PROCESSES PLAY IN THE TRANSPORT AND ENERGIZATION OF THE PLASMA ACROSS THE MAGNETOPAUSE AND WITHIN THE OUTER MAGNETOSPHERE. IN ADDITION THE STUDIES CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY TO THE DECADAL SURVEY'S GOALS OF DETERMINING THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE IN RELATION TO THE SOLAR TERRESTRIAL INPUTS AND CHARACTERIZING WHAT MAY BE A UBIQUITOUS PROCESS THAT OCCURS THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE AT MAGNETIZED PLANETS.

BIOMASS BURNING PLUME HEIGHT DERIVED FROM CALIPSO, MODIS AND THE NASA LANGLEY TRAJECTORY MODEL: AN APPROACH TO GENERATE ESSENTIAL NEW CALIPSO-BASED P

AWD PILOTS

THIS PROPOSED STUDY ADDRESSES THE FEASIBILITY OF A RELATIVELY NEAR-TERM AND LOW-COST MISSION TO PLUTO AS WELL AS OTHER BODIES WITH LOW-PRESSURE ATMOSPHERES (E.G. TRITON) WITH A FOCUS ON LANDER MISSIONS.

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE PRESSURE CONTROL CAPABILITY OF A CRYOGENIC LIQUID STORAGE TANK IN LOW GRAVITY VIA TWO PRESSURIZATION SCHEMES: PRESSURIZATION DIRECTLY TO THE ULLAGE AND SUBSURFACE PRESSURIZATION. BOTH PRESSURI

757ACCELERATE

STUDY OF DAMAGE MODES IN LIGHTWEIGHT SANDWICH STRUCTURES USING ANALYSIS AND TESTING

EARMARK

THIS EFFORT WILL FURTHER DEVELOP THE ACTIVE MEMBRANE SPACECRAFT CONCEPT CALLED "BRANE CRAFT" INITIALLY STUDIED IN A NIAC PHASE I GRANT. THE BRANE CRAFT IS AN ESSENTIALLY TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACECRAFT WITH INTEGRATED SOLAR CELLS POWER SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND AND CONTROL ATTITUDE DETERMINATION ATTITUDE CONTROL ELECTRIC PROPULSION AND SHAPE CONTROL SYSTEMS. THE PHASE II EFFORT WILL ANALYZE AND DOCUMENT THE BENEFITS LIMITATIONS MISSION OPERATIONS AND SIZE-SCALING OF BRANE CRAFT FOR REMOVAL OF ORBITAL DEBRIS AND WILL ATTEMPT LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS OF THIN FILM ELECTRONICS FOR COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND AND CONTROL POWER CONDITIONING SENSING AND SHAPE CONTROL. WE WILL IDENTIFY THE MOST PROMISING FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOP A TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.

23-LWS23_2-0001 CONDUCTIVITY ACROSS SPACE AND TIME AS INFORMED BY PARTICLE PRECIPITATION

THE NEWLY INSTALLED STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND GAS EXPERIMENT III INSTRUMENT ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SAGE III ISS OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOURCES AND PROCESSES AFFECTING STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND CIRRUS CLOUD VARIABILITY.

TAS::36 5700::TAS "(YIP) NOVEL CONCEPTS FOR TRANSITION DELAY IN HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYERS AND THEIR OPTIMIZATION"

?PURPOSE: BRING TOGETHER PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS INTO COLLABORATIVE REGIONAL CONSORTIA (?TECH HUB?) FOCUSED ON GROWTH THAT BUILDS ON THEIR REGION?S ASSETS AND POTENTIAL. STRENGTHEN THE HUB REGION?S CAPACITY TO DELIVER CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND TO ENSURE THEY ARE MANUFACTURED AND DELIVERED HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AS OUTLINED IN THE TECH HUB?S PHASE 2 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: --ENSURING CLEAR AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP OF THE CONSORTIUM THROUGH THE APPOINTMENT OF A REGIONAL INNOVATION OFFICER --PURSUING ADDITIONAL FUNDING, ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT, AND BENEFITS OF DESIGNATION THAT ADVANCE THE HUB?S PLAN TO COMMERCIALIZE TECHNOLOGIES CRITICAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY --PARTICIPATING IN THE EDA TECH HUBS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE --ESTABLISHING DATA COLLECTION AND METRICS TRACKING SYSTEMS TO REPORT ON PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND PROGRAM OUTCOMES --EDUCATING PRIVATE INDUSTRY, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS ABOUT REGIONAL ASSETS, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NEEDS, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE BUSINESSES WITHIN IN THEIR HUB?S SELECTED CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA --MAINTAINING COHESION ACROSS THE CONSORTIA AS EDA AWAITS FURTHER TECH HUBS APPROPRIATIONS EXPECTED OUTCOMES: --FULFILLING INVESTMENT AND POLICY COMMITMENTS IDENTIFIED IN THE PHASE 2 APPLICATION --ATTRACTING NEW PARTNERS AND CAPITAL PROVIDERS COMMITTED TO SUSTAINING THE CONSORTIA?S MOMENTUM --DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY-SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE REGION TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH AND MODERNIZATION OF U.S. MANUFACTURING AND IMPROVE COMMERCIALIZATION AND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH.

MUCH OF THE TRANSPORT, ACCELERATION, AND LOSSES OF THE ELECTRONS TO FORM THE EARTHS RADIATION BELTS IS THOUGHT TO OCCUR DUE TO INTERACTIONS BETWEEN T

TRANSITION PREDICTION AND CONTROL FOR BLUNT HYPERSONIC CONFIGURATIONS WITH HEMISPHERICAL AND OGIVAL NOSETIPS

THE NGFFP WILL PLACE FULL-TIME SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACULTY FROM ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, WHO ARE ALSO U.S. CITIZENS, IN 10-WEE

PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING IS THE DOMINANT LOSS PROCESS FOR A WHOLE SUITE OF AEROSOLS BUT MODEL PARAMETERIZATIONS OF THIS PROCESS ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN,

PURPOSE: REHABILITATE RUNWAY. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 4,001 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 18-36 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,404 FEET OF EXISTING RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. /. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,799 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 17-35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5103 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 17-35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS GRANT FUNDS PHASE 1, WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FIRST PHASE OF DESIGN. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

THIRD-ORDER HYPERBOLIC NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER FOR UNSTEADY SIMULATIONS WITH ADAPTIVE SPACE-TIME UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS

JAMES CLEMMONS / THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONNEUTRAL-ION COUPLING AND WIND SHEAR EFFECTS IN THE DAYTIME LOWER IONOSPHERETHIS INVESTIGATION WILL EXPLOR

WILDLAND FIRE IS LARGELY UNDER THE CONTROL OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE AND EXTREME FIRES ARE INCREASING COMPELLING US TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FUELS FIRE WEATHER ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND SMOKE TRANSPORT WHICH ARE CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING IMPACTS ON AIR QUALITY ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND CLIMATE. IN A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE FIRECHEM CALL WE PROPOSE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO GUIDE FLIGHT PLANNING THAT INCLUDES: (1) PREPARE PRECAMPAIGN INTELLIGENCE ON LOCATIONS WHERE CROPLAND PRESCRIBED AND WILDLAND FIRES ARE EXPECTED; (2) PROVIDE SATELLITE AND GROUND-BASED NEAR-REAL-TIME OBSERVATIONS AND INTERPRETATION OF FIRE ACTIVITY AND SMOKE EXTENT; (3) PROVIDE FIRE WEATHER AS AN INDICATOR OF ACTIVE FIRE CONTINUANCE; (4) PROVIDE THE LOCATION OF AREAS WITH THE BEST CHARACTERIZED FUELS; (5) PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE ON ACTIONED AND EXPERIMENTAL FIRES; (6) PROVIDE THE LOCATIONS AND TIMING OF PLANNED PRESCRIPTION AND/OR CROPLAND FIRES; AND (7) PREPARE DAILY REPORTS FOR FLIGHT PLANNING AND SUMMARY SYNOPSIS REPORTS OF THE FIRES SAMPLED DURING THE CAMPAIGN. ALSO WE PROPOSE TO USE THE DATA AND INFORMATION COLLECTED PARTICULARLY ON SMALL CROPLAND AND PRESCRIBED BURNS TO ANALYZE THE CAPABILITY OF SATELLITES TO CHARACTERIZE THESE FIRES. TOGETHER OUR PROPOSED WORK ADDRESSES 3 OF THE 4 FIRECHEM NEEDS STATED IN THE WHITE PAPER: (2) PREDICTION OF SMALL FIRE ACTIVITY. ARE THERE ORGANIZED PLANS FOR BURNING? WHEN ARE FIRES EXPECTED TO START? WHERE ARE CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO BURNING? CAN GOES PROVIDE GUIDANCE OR UPDATES ON BURNING PROGRESS?; (3) CONNECTION TO GROUND CONDITIONS. GATHERING INFORMATION ON FUEL CONDITIONS FIRE BEHAVIOR DURATION FRACTION OF FUEL BURNED ETC.; AND (4) ADVICE ON SELECTION OF FIRES TO TARGET. WHICH FIRE IS LIKELY TO YIELD MORE INFORMATION? WE BELIEVE THE BASE INFORMATION THAT WILL BE PROVIDED BY THIS PROJECT IS NECESSARY TO EXPLORE AND DEFINE THE VARIABILITY IN EMISSIONS OF GASES AEROSOLS AND AEROSOL PRECURSORS AS THEY RELATE TO SPECIFIC FIRES (SIZE CLASS SURFACE INTERMITTENT CROWN) IN UNIQUE ECOSYSTEMS AND FUEL TYPES UNDER A VARIETY OF FIRE-WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE FIRE RELEVANT DATA PRODUCED BY OUR TEAM IS EXPECTED TO BE RELEVANT TO THE COMPOSITION AND INJECTION HEIGHT OF PLUMES AIR QUALITY AND CHEMISTRY AND THE IMPACT OF BIOMASS BURNING ON CLIMATE-RELEVANT PROPERTIES. WE ANTICIPATE SMOKE COMPOSITION WILL BE VARIABLE DEPENDENT ON FUEL TYPE AMOUNT STRUCTURE COMBUSTION ENVIRONMENT (SPECIFICALLY THOSE RELATED TO FLAMING VS SMOLDERING COMBUSTION) AND ANTECEDENT WEATHER FACTORS. THESE BASE DATA ARE CRITICAL TO ADDRESSING RESEARCH QUESTIONS RELATED TO TROPOSPHERIC SAMPLING TO DISTINGUISH DIFFERENCES FROM AIRCRAFT AND SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS AND INTERPRETING THE DEGREE TO WHICH THESE DIFFERENCES IMPACT REGIONAL AND GLOBAL AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE. OUR TEAM IS WELL POSITION TO ACCOMPLISH THIS WORK WITH EXPERTISE IN WORKING WITH: FIRES (ENTIRE TEAM) SATELLITE DATA (SOJA MCCARTY HUDAK) FUELS (ENTIRE TEAM) FIRE WEATHER (SOJA HUDAK) CROPLANDS (MCCARTY) PRESCRIBED BURNING (HIERS) AND WESTERN FIRES (HUDAK). OUR TEAM IS ALREADY INTERACTIVE WITH THE COMBINED INTERAGENCY CAMPAIGNS AND OUR COLLABORATORS ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED.

PROBALISTIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TOOLS FOR HIGH-CYCLE FATIGUE RESISTANT HYPERSONIC VEHICLE STRUCTURES

PURPOSE: REHABILITATE TAXIWAY; REHABILITATE RUNWAY. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 3,401 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 18/36 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 3,500 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 15/33 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 4,007 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 4,530 FEET OF THE EXISTING PAVED TAXIWAY B TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT AND TO MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS/MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5014 FEET OF EXISTING PAVED RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS TO EXTEND ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS GRANT FUNDS PHASE 1, WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FIRST PHASE OF DESIGN. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

ADAPTIVE AEROSPACE GROUP, INC., (AAG) IS PROPOSING TO DESIGN AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (UAS) CALLED SAFE AUTONOMY FLEXIBLE INFLIGHT TESTBED (SAFITT

THE ALABAMA AEROSPACE AND AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL IS APPLYING FOR THE FAA AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNICAL WORKERS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM. WE ARE ELIGIBLE AS A HIGH SCHOOL AND HAVE ATTACHED A LETTER OF PENDING ACCREDITATION. WE ARE ASKING THAT OUR PROJECT PROPOSAL BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE CATEGORY OF A PROJECT THAT CREATES AND DELIVERS CURRICULUM DESIGNED TO PROVIDE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH MEANINGFUL AVIATION EDUCATION THAT IS DESIGNED TO PREPARE THE STUDENTS TO BECOME AIRCRAFT PILOTS, AEROSPACE ENGINEERS, OR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS OPERATORS.WE WILL TRAIN STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN. THROUGH OUR PROGRAM, STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLETE THEIR AIRFRAME AND POWERPLANT MECHANIC S LICENSE AND OR THEIR AVIONIC TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATION. OUR OBJECTIVES INCLUDE:1. INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF AAHS STUDENTS WHO SELECT AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE AMT PREREQUISITE AND ELECTIVE COURSES NEEDED TO IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE CREDENTIALING PROGRAMS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND POST-SECONDARY LEVEL. SUCCESS WILL BE DETERMINED BY ELECTIVE COURSE ENROLLMENT, AVIATION MECHANICS-PREPARATION CORE SUBJECT COURSE ENROLLMENT, COMPLETION OF AMT PRACTICE ASSESSMENTS AND THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE THE AMP PATHWAY.COURSE ENROLLMENT RECORDS, GRADES, PROJECT ADVISORY RECORDS AND ADVISEMENT RECORDS WILL BE TRACKED TO DETERMINE IF THE OBJECT HAS BEEN MET. THESE WILL BE COMPLETED BY ADMINISTRATION, COURSE INSTRUCTOR, CAREER COACH AND POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS COACH.2. INCREASE AAHS STUDENTS AND CONNECTING COMMUNITY S KNOWLEDGE OF AMT ALIGNED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION OPTIONS, PREPARATION AND FINANCING.STUDENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN FIELD TRIPS, PARENT INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS, GUEST PRESENTATIONS, FINANCIAL LITERACY WORKSHOPS STUDENT EDUCATION, PARENT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECTS. THESE ACTIVITIES WILL BE PRESENTED BY ADMINISTRATION, INSTRUCTORS, CAREER COACH, AND POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS COACH. PROJECT ACTIVITY RECORDS WILL BE TRACKED AND STUDENT PARENT SURVEY RESPONSES WILL BE INTERPRETED AND ANALYZED TO DETERMINE IF GOALS HAVE BEEN MET. 3. INCREASE THE PREPARATION OF THE PROJECT TEACHERS AND STAFF TO TEACH AMT CONTENT AND SKILLS.OUR STAFF WILL PARTICIPATE IN AMT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION THAT INCLUDES ASSESSMENT. THEY WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN AVIATION MECHANICS CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION TRAINING. THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WILL BE DELIVERED BY HIGHLY QUALIFIED INDUSTRY LEADERS. STAFF WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE PD OPPORTUNITIES AND TAKE AN KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT AT THEIR CONCLUSION. SUCCESS WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE NUMBER OF STAFF COMPLETING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND BY DETERMINING IF THEY SCORED 80% OR ABOVE ON THE ASSESSMENTS.WE WILL LOOK AT PROJECT ACTIVITY RECORDS AND TEACHER ASSESSMENTS TO DETERMINE IF THE GOALS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED.

WE PROPOSE TO SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTIGATE WHETHER DIFFUSE ELECTRON AURORAL PRECIPITATION IN THE IONOSPHERE AND TRAPPED ELECTRON FLUXES OF 1 KEV TO 1

WE PROPOSE TO ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION BY CONNECTING THE GROUND TO THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGH ONE OF THE LARGEST DISTURBANCES ON EARTH FIRE. ONE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND TRENDS IN FIRE EMISSIONS BY INVESTIGATING THE INTEGRAL DRI

THE ATOMIC PLANAR POWER FOR LIGHTWEIGHT EXPLORATION (APPLE)

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ONE OF THE IMPORTANT OUTSTANDING INNER MAGNETOSPHERE SCIENCE QUESTIONS IS: WHAT ROLE DOES THE RING CURRENT PLAY IN THE GENERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF

SINCE THE ARRIVAL OF THE CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION TO THE SATURN SYSTEM, OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TITAN HAS GROWN IMMENSELY. HAVING COMPLETED THE NOMINAL A

WE PROPOSE A COLLABORATIVE 3-YEAR PROJECT WITH THE AIM OF UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CLOUDS ON TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND CHE

THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC CUSPS ARE NARROW REGIONS OF RECENTLY OPENED OR MERGED MAGNETIC FIELD LINES MAPPING TO THE HIGH LATITUDE IONOSPHERE CENTERED ON

DR. DELUCAS WILL PROVIDE GUIDANCE TO THE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (DR. ROY JOSEPH) WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PURIFYING PROTEIN FOR THE SPX-10 MISSION AND SUBSEQUENTLY PERFORMING A PORTION OF THE CRYSTAL ANALYSIS (MASS SPECTROMETRY AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY) ON THE CRYSTALS GROWN ON THE ISS AND IN LABORATORY GROUND CONTROL EXPERIMENTS. DR. DELUCAS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INITIAL OPERATION OF THE CONFOCAL FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPE IN THE LIGHT MICROSCOPY MODULE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (WITH SUPPORT FROM NASA AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL). THIS WILL INVOLVE DR. DELUCAS TRAVELING TO CLEVELAND OH FOR A PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY 1 WEEK AFTER THE SCHEDULED LAUNCH DATE OF FEBRUARY 15 2017. HE WILL ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PREPARING A 30-DAY AND FINAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT TO NASA ADDRESSING THE RESULTS OF THE FLIGHT AND GROUND CONTROL EXPERIMENTS. A SECOND FLIGHT WILL OCCUR IN 2018 AND DR. DELUCAS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAME DUTIES AS OUTLINED ABOVE FOR THE INITIAL FLIGHT.

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PURPOSE: CONSTRUCT TAXIWAY; CONSTRUCT APRON; RECONSTRUCT APRON. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT CONSTRUCTS A NEW 13,000 SQUARE YARD TERMINAL APRON TO BRING THE AIRPORT INTO CONFORMITY WITH CURRENT STANDARDS. THIS PROJECT CONSTRUCTS NEW 4,300 FOOT PARALLEL TAXIWAY A TO BRING THE AIRPORT INTO CONFORMITY WITH CURRENT STANDARDS. THIS PROJECT RECONSTRUCTS 13,000 SQUARE YARDS OF THE EXISTING TERMINAL APRON PAVEMENT THAT HAS REACHED THE END OF ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS PROJECT RECONSTRUCTS 16,854 SQUARE YARDS OF THE EXISTING TERMINAL APRON PAVEMENT THAT HAS REACHED THE END OF ITS USEFUL LIFE. THIS GRANT FUNDS PHASE 1, WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FIRST PHASE OF DESIGN. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT: CRRES AND SCATHA ABSERVATIONS IN THE INNER MAGNETO

THE ROSES FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS ARE: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS.PARTICIPATE

WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER STORM-TIME MAGNETIC INTENSITIES |B| AND ION FLUXES IN THE RING CURRENT AND INNER PLASMA SHEET CAN BE SIMULTANEOUSLY

A COMPARISON OF THERMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION CHANGE BETWEEN THE DAYSIDE AND THE NIGHTSIDE AS A FUNCTION OF AURORAL ACTIVITY USING SATELLITE AND GROUND-B

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO UNDERSTAND 1) THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL AND INNER PLASMA SHEET DURING PERIODS OF ENERGY INPUT

THE IONOSPHERE AND MAGNETOSPHERE ARE DYNAMIC REGIONS WITH VARIOUS DRIVERS AFFECTING THEIR DAY TO DAY GLOBAL VARIABILITY. UNDERSTANDING THE MANNER IN

THIS PROPOSAL IS A \"COI\" PROPOSAL THAT SUPPORTS THE LEAD PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY M. LESSARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ENTITLED \"ROCKET EXPE

ROCKET EXPERIMENT FOR NEUTRAL UPWELLING (RENU) AEROSPACE COI PROPOSALSUMMARY: THIS PROPOSAL IS SU

ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) WAVES ARE PERVASIVE PLASMA WAVES THAT CAN SCATTER ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND HEAT COLD PARTICLES. PAST WORK HAS ALSO HINTED AT ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PLASMA COMPOSITION AND WAVES OBSERVED AT DIFFERENT MAGNETOSPHERIC LOCATIONS. THE PRIMARY SCIENCE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO SPECIFICALLY INVESTIGATE THE LOW-ENERGY PLASMA COMPOSITION AND ITS EFFECTS ON EMIC WAVE PROPERTIES USING MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE'S DISTINCTIVE INSTRUMENTATION AND MULTI-SATELLITE WAVE AND PARTICLE MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES. WE WILL ANALYZE MMS PARTICLE AND WAVE MEASUREMENTS WHEN EMIC WAVES ARE PRESENT. WE WILL INCLUDE TIMES WHEN FAST PLASMA FLOWS (CONVECTION ULF WAVES IONOSPHERIC OUTFLOWS) ACCELERATE THE USUALLY HIDDEN COLD PLASMA CORE INTO THE ENERGY RANGE MEASURED BY THE PARTICLE INSTRUMENTS. SUCH FLOWS ALONG OR ACROSS THE MAGNETIC FIELD ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO MEASURE THE FULL LOW-ENERGY PLASMA COMPOSITION (FULL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS PER ION SPECIES) AND FURTHER ANALYZE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE ION SPECIES ON EMIC WAVE PROPERTIES. WE WILL APPLY PUBLIC MMS MISSION DATASETS (THAT ARE AVAILABLE 30 DAYS PRIOR STEP-2 DEADLINE) DURING SINGLE SATELLITE AND MULTI-SATELLITE EMIC WAVE ACTIVITY TOWARDS THIS INVESTIGATION. THIS INCLUDES APPLICATION OF DATA GATHERED TO TESTS OF LINEAR THEORY OF EMIC WAVES FOR VARIOUS MAGNETOSPHERIC LOCATIONS AND ACTIVITY CONDITIONS. MMS DATA FOR APPLICATION TO THIS STUDY APPEAR BELOW. WE WILL USE SPACE PHYSICS ENVIRONMENT DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE (SPEDAS) FOR THE ANALYSIS. SIMILAR TOOLS AND METHODOLOGY HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED TO STUDIES ON THEMIS AND MMS DATA CITED BELOW. MMS DATASETS BY INSTRUMENT (ACRONYM): FAST PLASMA INSTRUMENT-DUAL ION AND ELECTRON SENSORS (FPI-DIS&DES) HOT PLASMA COMPOSITION ANALYZER (HPCA) ACTIVE SPACECRAFT POTENTIAL CONTROL DEVICE (ASPOC) SPIN-PLANE AND AXIAL DOUBLE PROBES (SDP&ADP) ANALOG AND DIGITAL FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETERS (AFG&DFG I.E. FGM) ENERGETIC ION SPECTROMETER (EIS) ANALYSIS TOOLS&METHODOLOGY: - ANALYSIS OF PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND COMPOSITION: LEE J. H. AND V. ANGELOPOULOS (2014) ON THE PRESENCE AND PROPERTIES OF COLD IONS NEAR EARTH'S EQUATORIAL MAGNETOSPHERE JGR-SPACE DOI:10.1002/2013JA019305. - EMIC WAVE ANALYSIS AND MODELING: (1) LEE J. H. AND V. ANGELOPOULOS (2014) OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF EMIC WAVE PROPERTIES IN THE PRESENCE OF MULTIPLE ION SPECIES AS FUNCTION OF MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME JGR-SPACE DOI:10.1002/2014JA020469; (2) LEE J. H. L. CHEN V. ANGELOPOULOS AND R. M. THORNE (2012) THEMIS OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF MULTIPLE ION SPECIES AND EMIC WAVES: IMPLICATIONS FOR A VANISHING HE+ STOP BAND JGR-SPACE DOI:10.1029/2012JA017539. - MULTI-SATELLITE WAVE ANALYSIS: TURNER D. L. J. H. LEE ET AL. (2017) EXAMINING COHERENCY SCALES SUBSTRUCTURE AND PROPAGATION OF WHISTLER-MODE CHORUS ELEMENTS WITH MMS JGR-SPACE DOI:10.1002/2017JA024474. RELEVANCE&BROADER IMPACTS:THE PLASMA COMPOSITION AND WAVE DATA PRODUCTS WE WILL COMPILE ARE TIMELY AND RELEVANT TO NASA MMS. FOR EXAMPLE HIGH CONCENTRATION OF LOW-ENERGY HEAVY IONS MAY INFLUENCE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION OCCURRING AT THE MAGNETOPAUSE OR IN THE MAGNETOTAIL. THE PROJECT IS RELEVANT TO THE HELIOPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY (HDS) GOAL: "DETERMINE THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL INPUTS" AND TO THE SCIENCE AREA "MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING". OUTCOMES WILL HAVE BROADER IMPACTS LIKE PROVIDING CONTEXT FOR PAST AND ONGOING THEMIS MEASUREMENTS. BECAUSE PLASMA COMPOSITION REGULATES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EMIC WAVES IN SCATTERING ENERGETIC PARTICLES THE OUTCOMES ARE APPLICABLE TO HIGH PRIORITY SCIENCE GOALS OF THE VAN ALLEN PROBES MISSION. THE RELEVANCE OF OUR PROJECT ACROSS SATELLITE MISSIONS HIGHLIGHTS ITS RELEVANCE TO THE BROAD HDS GOALS AND TO NASA.

OUR SCIENCE QUESTION IS: CAN DRIFT-BOUNCE DISPERSION OF MICROBURSTS EXPLAIN THE RECENT SURPRISING OBSERVATION OF 30-60 KM FINE SCALE PERSISTENT (>60 SECONDS) STRUCTURES IN>35 KEV ELECTRONS PRECIPITATING INTO THE EARTH S ATMOSPHERE. IN BLAKE AND O BRIEN [2016 JGR] WE REPORTED OBSERVATIONS OF THESE STRUCTURES FROM THE UNIQUE AEROCUBE-6 (AC6) MISSION. AC6 IS AN AEROSPACE CORPORATION TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION MISSION WITH SPONSORSHIP FROM THE US AIR FORCE SPACE AND MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER. LAUNCHED IN JUNE 2014 AND STILL OPERATING AC6 CONSISTS OF TWO 0.5U CUBESATS EACH EQUIPPED WITH THREE MICRODOSIMETERS SAMPLED AT UP TO 10 HZ. THE TWO VEHICLES ARE IN SIMILAR 620 KM X 700 KM ORBITS AT A 98 DEGREE INCLINATION. THE IN-TRACK SEPARATION OF THE VEHICLES VARIES OVER THE MISSION AND CAN BE CONTROLLED VIA DIFFERENTIAL DRAG. THE FINE STRUCTURES WERE OBSERVED IN THE DRIFT LOSS CONE (DLC) WHERE LOCAL PARTICLES CAN DRIFT PART WAY AROUND THE EARTH BEFORE BEING LOST TO THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY (SAA). THE INDIVIDUAL TEMPORAL FEATURES ARE A FEW SECONDS LONG TOO LONG TO BE BOUNCE PHASE STRUCTURE AND HAVE A ~30 KM LATITUDINAL EXTENT. THE FACT THAT THE SAME FEATURES ARE STILL PRESENT AFTER ~60 SECONDS SUGGESTS NOT ONLY THAT THEY ARE SPATIAL AND BOUNCE PHASE MIXED BUT ALSO THAT THEY HAVE A LONGITUDE EXTENT OF AT LEAST 60 KM AS ANYTHING SMALLER WOULD HAVE DRIFTED AWAY BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE SECOND SPACECRAFT. WE WILL SYSTEMATICALLY ANALYZE THE 30-60 KM STRUCTURES AND ATTEMPT TO SIMULATE THEIR FORMATION. AT A GIVEN ALTITUDE THE BOUNCE LOSS CONE (BLC) IS A GEOGRAPHIC REGION ROUGHLY MAGNETICALLY CONJUGATE TO THE SAA WHERE EVEN LOCALLY MIRRORING PARTICLES WILL BE LOST TO THE ATMOSPHERE WHEN THEY BOUNCE INTO THE OPPOSITE HEMISPHERE. THEREFORE PARTICLES OBSERVED IN THE BLC HAVE BEEN PITCH ANGLE SCATTERED ON THE LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD LINE. BY EXAMINING THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF BLC PRECIPITATION EVENTS AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT SPACECRAFT SEPARATIONS FROM ~0 KM TO ~300 KM WE CAN DETERMINE THE INITIAL TRANSVERSE (SPATIAL) AND BOUNCE PHASE (TEMPORAL) PROPERTIES OF THE SCATTERED PACKETS OF ELECTRONS. TO SUPPORT THIS DATA ANALYSIS OUR PROPOSAL INCLUDES TWO YEARS OF SPECIAL AC6 OPERATIONS IN BLC CAMPAIGNS AND DRIFT LOSS CONE (DLC) CAMPAIGNS. DURING THE SCIENCE PHASE THE SPACECRAFT SEPARATION WILL GRADUALLY SEPARATE FROM ~0 KM TO 300 KM AND THEN RETURN TOGETHER. DATA COLLECTION WILL BE ALTERNATELY MAXIMIZED IN THE BLC OR DLC TO STUDY PRISTINE PARTICLES IN THE BLC OR PROCESSED ONES IN THE DLC. USING ESTABLISHED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MODELS WE WILL TRACE PARTICLES FROM A MODEL SCATTERED PACKET FORWARD IN TIME TO DETERMINE WHETHER BOUNCE PHASE MIXING AND DRIFT DISPERSION CAN PRODUCE THE PERSISTENT 30-60 KM SPATIAL STRUCTURES. IF THIS HYPOTHESIS EXPLAINS THE OBSERVATIONS THEN IT ALSO REVEALS AN IMPORTANT SPATIAL SCALE OF THE SOURCE REGION OF MICROBURSTS AND LIKELY CHORUS. OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES INDICATE THAT THE CHORUS SOURCE REGION IS COHERENT OVER TRANSVERSE SCALES OF UP TO 100 KM WHILE A POTENTIALLY LARGER REGION (~3000 KM) MAY BE UNSTABLE AND GENERATING CHORUS SIMULTANEOUSLY BUT NOT COHERENTLY. THE PROPOSED STUDY WOULD PROVIDE A STRONG OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINT ON THE SIZE OF PRECIPITATION FROM THAT LARGER REGION WHICH IS THE RELEVANT SCALE SIZE FOR DETERMINING THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRONS LOST IN A SINGLE MICROBURST EPISODE. THE PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE DECADAL SURVEY S KEY SCIENCE GOAL 2 WHICH SPECIFICALLY CALLS OUT UNDERSTANDING CHARGED-PARTICLE ACCELERATION SCATTERING AND LOSS WHICH CONTROL THE INTENSIFICATION AND DEPLETION OF THE RADIATION BELTS IS THEREFORE A PRIORITY OF SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS. CHARGED-PARTICLE LOSS IS AT THE CORE OF THE PROPOSAL WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ACCELERATION VIA CHORUS IN ORDER TO FACILITATE MAXIMUM SCIENTIFIC RETURN ON THE AC6 DATA WE PROPOSE TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE LEVEL 2 MISSION ARCHIVE IN STANDARD NASA COMMON DATA FORMAT TO THE SPACE PHYSICS DATA FACILITY.

WE WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHETHER AND UNDER WHAT GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS ADDITIONAL DIFFUSION TERMS DUE TO MAGNETIC DRIFT SHELL SPLITTING HAVE A

GEM: ASSESSING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF CONVECTION AND INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS FOR PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND ENERGIZATION IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE PHYSICS OF THE EARTH S LOWER THERMOSPHERE (100 ## 160 KM) USING NEWLY ACQUIRED MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE FROM T

THE BROAD OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INCLUDE A QUANTITATIVELY REALISTIC REPRESENTATION OF DIFFUSE AURORAL PRECIPITATION INTO THE MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE (MIT) SYSTEM

GEM: VALIDATING SELF-CONSISTENT INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC MODELS: ASSESSING EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTIES IN PLASMA SHEET AND ELECTRIC FIELD BOUNDARY CONDITION

TOPIC 1.1 - FLUID DYNAMICS: INTRINSICALLY EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE VISCOUS SIMULATIONS VIA HYPERBOLIC NAVIER-STOKES SYSTEMS

PROJECT PROPOSES TO EVALUATE A U-233/TH-232 FUELED ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTOR (AHTR) OR MODI

CONG. SETASIDES, MUSEUMS

STUDY OF DAMAGE MODES IN LIGHTWEIGHT SANDWICH STRUCTURES USING ANALYSIS AND TESTING

WE PROPOSE TO PERFORM GEMINI POLISH2 OBSERVATIONS OF HD 189733B AND HD 209458B TO IDENTIFY THE CLOUD PARTICLE COMPOSITION AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN THEIR UPPER ATMOSPHERES.

PURPOSE: RECONFIGURE APRON; SHIFT OR RECONFIGURE EXISTING TAXIWAY; REHABILITATE RUNWAY. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT RECONFIGURES TAXIWAY A FROM ITS CURRENT AIRFIELD LOCATION TO BE PARALLEL TO RUNWAY 18/36 TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. . THIS PROJECT RECONFIGURES TAXIWAY B FROM ITS CURRENT AIRFIELD LOCATION TO REMOVE DIRECT ACCESS TO RUNWAY 17/35 TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. . THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 4,006 FEET OF RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,507 FEET OF RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 7,202 FEET OF RUNWAY 13/31 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT. THIS PROJECTS RECONFIGURES THE EXISTING TERMINAL APRON TO IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY. . THIS GRANT FUNDS THE DESIGN PHASE. THIS GRANT FUNDS THE DESIGN PHASE. THIS GRANT FUNDS THE FIRST PHASE OF DESIGN. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

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PURPOSE: CONSTRUCT TAXIWAY; REHABILITATE RUNWAY; SHIFT OR RECONFIGURE EXISTING TAXIWAY. THIS GRANT INCLUDES FUNDING BY THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL SHARE TO 100 PERCENT FOR THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP). ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT CONSTRUCTS A 4,400 FOOT PARALLEL TAXIWAY A TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR AIRCRAFT TO BACK-TAXI ON THE RUNWAY. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,001 FEET OF RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT AND TO MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS. THIS PROJECT SHIFTS TAXIWAY A FROM ITS CURRENT AIRFIELD LOCATION TO 150 WEST TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. THIS PROJECT SHIFTS TAXIWAY A FROM ITS CURRENT AIRFIELD LOCATION TO 90 FEET WEST TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. THIS GRANT FUNDS THE FIRST PHASE, WHICH CONSISTS OF A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT. THIS GRANT FUNDS THE FOURTH PHASE, WHICH CONSISTS OF A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT FOR THE NORTH 2,900 FEET. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

GEM: INNER RADIATION BELT DATA ASSIMILATION

THE ROSES FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS ARE: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.

THE RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES HAS LED TO INCREASED TROPOSPHERIC OZONE CONCENTRATIONS AND EMISSIONS OF NITROGEN OXIDES.

HYPERBOLIC RECONSTRUCTED-DISCONTINUOUS-GALERKIN METHOD FOR ACCURATE UNSTEADY VISCOUS SIMULATIONS ON UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS

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NASA GLENN FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AND NASA GLENN ACADEMY

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OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE (OAI) WILL INCREASE EXPORTS TO TARGET MARKETS THROUGH THE OAI EDUCATION, TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND EXPORT INITIATIVE FOR ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY (UAV) AND COMMERCIAL SPACE CLUSTER: 1. ORGANIZE SEMINARS AND TRAINING - WORK WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS TO CREATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT, STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS, ITAR AND EXPORT CONTROLS, IP PROTECTION, AS WELL AS ALL EXPORT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT. PRE-TRADE-MISSION COUNSELING AND OVERVIEWS WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED. 2. CO-ORGANIZE FORUMS FOR UAV AND SPACE CLUSTER - (ONE PER YEAR) WITH TRADE FORUMS WILL INVOLVE AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND DISCUSSION AROUND THE INDUSTRY AND HOW TO BEST ADVANCE TECHNOLOGIES AND OPPORTUNITIES GLOBALLY. WE WILL CO-HOST WITH THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS JOBS OHIO. OHIO FEDERAL RESEARCH NETWORK AS WELL AS OAI'S PARTNERS: FARNBOROUGH AEROSPACE CONSORTIUM, MIDLANDS AEROSPACE ALLIANCE, AERO MONTREAL,

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DYNAMICS IN THE MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE OVER THE ANDES LIDAR OBSERVATORY

GEM: SIMULATIONS OF DIFFUSE AURORAL ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND PRECIPITATION IN REALISTIC MODEL STORMS AND SUBSTORMS

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WE PROPOSE TRANSFORMATIVE OBSERVATIONS OF MAIN BELT ASTEROIDS IN SCATTERED LIGHT WITH GROUND-BASED OPTICAL POLARIMETRY. LINEAR POLARIZATION HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE ANTICORRELATED WITH ALBEDO ON THE SURFACES OF MERCURY THE MOON AND MARS. SINCE POLARIMETRY IS A DIFFERENTIAL QUANTITY (RATIO OF POLARIZED TO TOTAL FLUX) IT IS INSENSITIVE TO ROTATIONAL CHANGES IN CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA WHICH ARE PRESENT FOR ASTEROIDS (SO-CALLED SHAPE CHANGES ). POLARIZATION VARIATIONS CAN THEREFORE BE TRACED TO SURFACE ALBEDO VARIATIONS. IN CONTRAST BOTH SHAPE CHANGES AND ALBEDO VARIATIONS MANIFEST IN PHOTOMETRY. CONVENTIONAL POLARIMETRY IS LIMITED BY WAVEPLATES WHICH ARE INCAPABLE OF ACCURACY BELOW THE ~0.01% = 100 PPM LEVEL (PARTS-PERMILLION) DUE TO LINEAR TO CIRCULAR POLARIZATION CONVERSION IN THE OPTIC. DUE TO THIS LIMITATION CHANGES IN LINEAR POLARIZATION WITH ROTATIONAL PHASE ARE ONLY CONCLUSIVELY DETECTABLE WITH WAVEPLATE POLARIMETERS FOR ASTEROID (4) VESTA. HOWEVER THE UNIQUE PHOTOELASTIC MODULATORS (PEMS) IN THE POLISH2 POLARIMETER (WIKTOROWICZ&NOFI 2015) ENABLE PHOTON-LIMITED ACCURACY AT THE 1 PPM LEVEL. THIS INSTRUMENT HAS NOT ONLY CONFIRMED ROTATIONAL POLARIZATION OF (4) VESTA BUT IT HAS ALSO DETECTED THIS EFFECT IN (1) CERES AND (7) IRIS WITH HIGH SIGNIFICANCE. THUS POLISH2 HAS ALREADY TRIPLED THE NUMBER OF ASTEROIDS WITH KNOWN ALBEDO VARIATIONS DETECTABLE WITH POLARIMETRY AND HAS OBSERVED THIS EFFECT ON ALL THREE ASTEROIDS IN OUR PILOT STUDY. IN ADDITION THE POLISH2 PEMS ENABLE SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF LINEAR AND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION WHICH MAY RESULT FROM MULTIPLE SCATTERING BY ROUGH REGOLITH OR BY PHASE RETARDANCE FROM METALLIFEROUS SURFACES. POLISH2 HAS DISCOVERED BROADBAND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION ON (7) IRIS WHICH IS THE FIRST DETECTION OF CIRCULAR POLARIZATION IN AN ASTEROID AND WEAK ANTICORRELATION OF LINEAR POLARIZATION WITH CIRCULAR POLARIZATION ON (1) CERES AND (4) VESTA. BRIGHT REGIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE LOW LINEAR POLARIZATION BUT DETECTABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION DUE TO MULTIPLE SCATTERING. WE PROPOSE TO A) VERIFY LINEAR POLARIZATION VARIATIONS AND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION RESULTS ON (1) CERES (4) VESTA AND (7) IRIS; B) OBSERVE SIX BRIGHT MAIN BELT ASTEROIDS FOR LONGITUDE-DEPENDENT LINEAR POLARIZATION VARIATIONS AND FOR CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; AND C) OBSERVE THREE ASTEROIDS WITH HIGH RADAR ALBEDO TO SEARCH FOR CIRCULAR POLARIZATION FROM THEIR METALLIFEROUS SURFACES. WE THEREFORE PROPOSE TO SEARCH FOR ALBEDO VARIATIONS WITH LONGITUDE ON TWELVE ASTEROIDS AND TO IDENTIFY THE SIGNATURES OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING AND METALLIFEROUS PHASE RETARDANCE ON THEIR SURFACES.

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PURPOSE: INSTALL RUNWAY LIGHTING; REHABILITATE TAXIWAY; EXPAND APRON; REHABILITATE RUNWAY. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED/EXPECTED OUTCOMES: THIS PROJECT EXPANDS THE EXISTING TERMINAL APRON AN ADDITIONAL 34,500 SQUARE YARDS TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. THIS PROJECT INSTALLS A NEW RUNWAY 17/35 LIGHTING SYSTEM TO MEET FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION DESIGN STANDARDS. . THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,001 FEET OF RUNWAY 17/35 TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE PAVEMENT AND TO MINIMIZE FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,200 FEET OF THE EXISTING TAXIWAY A PAVEMENT THAT REQUIRES REHABILITATION TO ENSURE SAFE AIRFIELD OPERATIONS. THIS PROJECT REHABILITATES 5,799 FEET OF THE EXISTING WEST PARALLEL TAXIWAY PAVEMENT THAT REQUIRES REHABILITATION TO ENSURE SAFE AIRFIELD OPERATIONS. THIS GRANT FUNDS THE DESIGN PHASE. INTENDED BENEFICIARY: THIS GRANT WILL PROVIDE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIRPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

WE HYPOTHESIZE THREE MAIN MECHANISMS OF RADIAL TRANSPORT FOR RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS IN THE OUTER RADIATION BELT: (1) INCOHERENT SCATTERING IN THE DRI

PROPOSED SOLUTION: THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS UNDERSTAND THE VARIABILITY OF THE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT OF THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE AND USE IT TO ASSESS IMPACT ON SPACECRAFT MATERIALS THROUGH THE CALCULATION OF DOSE RATES AND CHARGING. SPECIFIC SCIENCE OBJECTIVES TO BE ADDRESSED ARE: 1. TO CHARACTERIZE HOW DIFFERENT SOLAR WIND INPUTS AFFECT THE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. 2. TO QUANTITATIVELY ASSESS THE INFLUENCES OF THE RADIATION BELTS ON THE CHARGING OF SPACECRAFT MATERIALS AND SPACE SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS ORBITS AND UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS.

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RICHARD WALTERSCHEID / THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONWAVE AND WAVE GENERATED EVENTS IN THE UPPER MESOSPHE

WIA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

THIS PROPOSAL IS LED BY THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION TO DEMONSTRATE THROUGH STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON FLIGHTS THE APPLICABILITY OF A LIGHTWEIGHT LOW COST COMPACT AND SCALABLE SOLAR CELL MEASUREMENT MODULE FOR PERFORMING EVENTUAL HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON SOLAR CELL CALIBRATION. THE MAIN GOALS OF THE 1-YEAR PROJECT ARE TO:1. DEMONSTRATE THE COMPACT PAYLOAD CAN OBTAIN PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF THE PERFORMANCE OUTPUT OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELL TEST SAMPLES WITH THEIR TEMPERATURES IN THE STRATOSPHERE FROM SUBORBITAL BALLOON PLATFORMS. THE MODULE HAS COMPLETED LAB TESTS AND IS CURRENTLY AT TRL 4.2. RETRIEVE THE PAYLOAD FOLLOWING FLIGHTS AND PERFORM COMPARISONS TO BASELINE LAB MEASUREMENTS. THE COMPARISONS WILL EXPLORE POSSIBLE DIFFERENCES IN SOLAR CELL OUTPUT SEEN IN LAB MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED UNDER A LAB AM0 LIGHT SOURCE TUNED USING A PREVIOUS BALLOON CALIBRATION STANDARD VERSUS THE FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS OF THOSE SAME CELLS WHILE THEY WERE ILLUMINATED IN THE AM0 SUBORBITAL ENVIRONMENT. THE FLIGHT DATA WILL HELP INFORM OUR MATURATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODULE.OUR FLIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS ARE RELEVANT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY RADIATION HARD SOLAR CELLS IN THAT THEY WILL PAVE THE WAY TOWARDS OBTAINING THE DATA NEEDED FOR RAPID AND ACCURATE BENCHMARKING OF THE LATEST HIGH-EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES. OBTAINING PERFORMANCE DATA ON HIGH-EFFICIENCY SPACE SOLAR CELLS IN A LAB ENVIRONMENT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUTURE EARTH AND PLANETARY MISSIONS. OUR MODULE AND THE DATA WILL HAVE CROSS-CUTTING INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE US SPACE INDUSTRY SINCE SATELLITE DESIGNERS NEED ACCURATE DATA TO ACCURATELY SIZE SOLAR ARRAYS FOR THEIR APPLICATIONS AND MISSION PROFILES. MATURATION OF OUR MODULE WILL ALSO BE OF INTEREST TO HIGH ALTITUDE FLIGHT PROVIDERS ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER NATIONAL LABS ENGAGED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SO THAT THEY CAN RELIABLY OBTAIN TEST DATA. THE DATA IS OF HIGH PRIORITY TO SOLAR CELL DEVELOPERS BECAUSE IT HELPS INFORM THEIR DESIGN CHANGES AND QUANTIFY TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO ADVANCE SPACE PHOTOVOLTAICS.

EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGE

STTR PHASE I: A RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT NEW METHOD FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL -THIS SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PHASE I PROJECT OFFERS SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF SPACECRAFT ORIENTATION CONTROL BY PROVIDING INCREASED AGILITY, ALONG WITH REDUCED MASS, VOLUME, AND COST. THESE ADVANTAGES OPEN DOORS TO NEW SCIENTIFIC AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES. THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE DEMANDING NEEDS OF FUTURE SPACE OBSERVATORIES AND COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT THAT REQUIRE HIGH AGILITY SYSTEMS, CURRENTLY UNACHIEVABLE WITH EXISTING ATTITUDE CONTROL SOLUTIONS. MOREOVER, THIS SYSTEM, AS A MORE AFFORDABLE 3-AXIS CONTROL OPTION, IS SET TO INCREASE ACCESS TO SPACE FOR LOWER-BUDGET MISSIONS, MAKING SPACE EXPLORATION MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN EVER BEFORE. THE SYSTEMS APPLICATION IS ENVISIONED TO ENABLE ADVANCES IN SECTORS SUCH AS SATELLITE-TO-SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, ADDING MOMENTUM TO GLOBAL DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY INITIATIVES. THIS STTR PHASE I PROJECT SEEKS TO DEVELOP A MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES FOR ATTITUDE CONTROL (MSAC) SYSTEM AND INCREASE ITS EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY, PUSHING IT TOWARDS ACHIEVING READINESS FOR FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION. THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE EXISTING CHALLENGE OF THE SYSTEM'S FATIGUE STRENGTH AND ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH THE HARSH SPACE ENVIRONMENT, FACTORS CRUCIAL FOR ITS COMMERCIAL SUCCESS AND DURABILITY IN ITS INTENDED APPLICATION. THIS PROJECT'S AIM IS TO DESIGN A FLIGHT-CAPABLE SYSTEM, DRAWING ON THE INSIGHTS FROM LAB-SCALE TESTS AND PROTOTYPES. IT ALSO SEEKS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPROVE THE SYSTEM'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL DESIGN TO ELEVATE EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY STANDARDS. THROUGH THIS RESEARCH METHOD, THE TEAM ANTICIPATES A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND EVENTUAL MITIGATION OF POTENTIAL FAILURE MODES, PAVING THE WAY FOR THE REALIZATION OF A ROBUST, SPACE-READY PROTOTYPE. THE ANTICIPATED TECHNICAL RESULTS FROM THIS ENDEAVOR HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE CONTROL MARKET. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

WILDFIRE, ECOSYSTEMS & CLIMATE : EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WEATHER, EXTREME FIRE EVENT

STTR PHASE I: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADDITIVELY-MANUFACTURED, NON-TOXIC, ADVANCED STORABLE HYBRID ROCKET PROPULSION SYSTEM -THE BROADER IMPACT/COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL OF THIS SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PHASE I PROJECT SEEKS TO MAKE ORBITAL MANEUVERS AFFORDABLE FOR LARGE AND SMALL CUBESAT OPERATORS. THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY SEEKS TO SUPPLY THE MARKET WITH AN AFFORDABLE, ?GREEN?, RELIABLE, AND EASY TO INTEGRATE MODULAR PROPULSION SYSTEM. MINIMAL INTEGRATION REQUIREMENTS WILL ALLOW CUBESAT OPERATORS TO FOCUS ON MISSION OBJECTIVES AND PAYLOAD FIRST, INSTEAD OF THE PROPULSION SYSTEM INTEGRATION. TODAY, INTEGRATING A PROPULSION SYSTEM REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THERMAL, ELECTRICAL, AND VOLUME REQUIREMENTS AND HAZARDOUS PROPELLANTS LIMIT AVAILABLE LAUNCH SERVICE. BOTH OF THESE FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASING COST AND LENTHENING SCHEDULES. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO MAKE ADVANCED MANEUVERS, INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORIES, RAPID END OF LIFE DISPOSAL, AND ACCURATE COURSE CORRECTIONS ACCESSIBLE CAPABILITIES FOR CUBESATS. ACCESSIBLE PROPULSION MAY ALSO REDUCE ORBITAL CONGESTION AS FEWER MANEUVERABLE SATELLITES CAN EQUAL THE CAPABILITY OF MANY STATICALLY-POSITIONED SATELLITES. CUBESATS HAVE ALREADY ENABLED RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF CAPABILITIES INCLUDING LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION RELAYS, DEFENSE PURPOSES, AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH RANGING FROM FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS TO EARTH OBSERVATION. THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY SEEKS TO ENHANCE CUBESAT CAPABILITIES, OPENING NEW INDUSTRIES AND DISCOVERIES FOR THE NEXT GREAT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, AND ENTREPRENEURS. THIS SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PHASE I PROJECT SEEKS TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCE A PROTOTYPE SPACEFLIGHT-READY DESIGN FOR A COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE, CHEMICAL-HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM. CONVENTIONAL HYBRID SYSTEMS HAVE SHOWN SIGNIFICANT DOWNSIDES DUE TO COMPLEX MANUFACTURING, SINGLE USE AND/OR TOXIC IGNITION SYSTEMS, AND LOW FUEL REGRESSION RATES. THIS TECHNOLOGY SEEKS TO SOLVE THESE ISSUES BY UTILIZING A 3-D PRINTED THERMOPLASTIC AS THE BASE FUEL, WHICH HAS ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES THAT ALLOW FOR REPEATABLE, RAPID, AND LOW POWER IGNITION. SOME POTENTIAL PROPELLANT COMBINATIONS HAVE A HIGH THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE, BUT ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE IGNITION METHOD, HAVE A LOW FUEL REGRESSION RATE, OR ARE DIFFICULT TO MANUFACTURE. AFTER TESTING PROPELLANT COMBINATIONS FOR COMPATIBILITY WITH THE IGNITION SYSTEM, THE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE WILL BE SIMULATED. THE PERFORMANCE DATA WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE AND DESIGN A PROTOTYPE PROPULSION MODULE. THE FUEL WILL BE EXPOSED TO A SIMULATED SPACE ENVIRONMENT AND A LAB WEIGHT SCALE TEST WILL BE PERFORMED TO VERIFY THE SIMULATION RESULTS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PLAN WILL IDENTIFY THE BEST OPTION TO PRODUCE A COMPETITIVE AND RELIABLE INTEGRATED CUBESAT PROPULSION SYSTEM, WITH A TEST CAMPAIGN CONSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE CONFIDENCE THAT A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM WILL PERFORM AS DESIGNED. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

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MOTIVATION: THE CURRENT SOLAR CYCLE IS UNIQUE IN THAT LEVELS OF ACTIVITY ARE THE LOWEST FOR ANY CYCLE SINCE THE SPACE AGE IN TERMS OF A SHORTAGE OF LARGE FAST CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS (CMES) AND HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE EVENTS (E.G. GROUND-LEVEL EVENTS (GLES)). THIS LOW LEVEL OF ACTIVITY HAS BROUGHT ABOUT UNIQUE CHALLENGES. ONE OF THESE IS THE RISE IN STEALTH CMES WHICH ARE CMES OBSERVED IN CORONAGRAPH DATA BUT NOT IN CORONAL IMAGES ESPECIALLY IN DISK VIEW. THESE EVENTS WERE IDENTIFIED DURING THE DEEP MINIMUM OF CYCLE 23/24 AND APPEAR TO BE INCREASING. FAR FROM LACKING IMPACT THESE NEAR-INVISIBLE STEALTH CMES HAVE BEEN LINKED TO MODERATE GEOMAGNETIC STORM ACTIVITY (KILPUA ET AL. 2014). UNFORTUNATELY WITH MODERATE GEOMAGNETIC STORMS FROM UNSEEN SOURCES ALSO ON THE RISE IT HAS BECOME EMBARRASSINGLY OBVIOUS THAT OUR FIELD CURRENTLY LACKS THE CAPABILITY TO IDENTIFY AND ACCURATELY PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF STEALTH CMES AT EARTH. SINCE SOLAR CYCLE 25 BRINGS POSSIBLY ANOTHER LOW ACTIVITY CYCLE THE NUMBER OF STEALTH CMES WILL LIKELY REMAIN A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF EJECTA. THUS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR ERUPTION MECHANISMS THE TIMESCALE OVER WHICH ON-DISK OBSERVATIONS MUST BE MADE AND A RELIABLE ASSOCIATION WITH ICME EVENTS AT 1 AU ARE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO SPACE WEATHER PREDICTION. WE PROPOSE A 3- YEAR INVESTIGATION TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGIN OF STEALTH CMES TO FIND THE LINK BETWEEN STEALTH CMES AND THEIR IN-SITU SIGNATURES AND TO DETERMINE HOW THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STEALTH CME ERUPTIONS CORONAL HOLES AND THE FAST SOLAR WIND OFTEN ENHANCES THE GEOEFFECTIVENESS OF THE RESULTING TRANSIENTS AT EARTH. OBJECTIVES: 1) CAN WE FIND ON-DISK SIGNATURES OF STEALTH CMES IN CORONAL IMAGES AFTER EXTENSIVE IMAGE PROCESSING? HOW DO THEY GET ACCELERATED? CAN WE TRACK THEM TO 1 AU USING PRESENTLY AVAILABLE DATA? 2) CAN A SUBSET OF STEALTH CMES RESULT FROM EXPANDING LOOPS AT THE EDGE OF ACTIVATED REGIONS AROUND CORONAL HOLES? DO SUCH EVENTS HAVE SUPRATHERMAL ELECTRON SIGNATURES IN SITU DISTINCT FROM THE OPEN FIELD TOPOLOGIES OF THE SOLAR WIND? 3) HOW DOES THE PROXIMITY OF STEALTH CMES TO CORONAL HOLES AFFECT THE EVOLUTION OF THESE TRANSIENTS IN THE SOLAR WIND? DOES A PARTICULAR GEOMETRY OF THE SOURCE REGION ALLOW GREATER INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CME AND FAST SOLAR WIND RESULTING IN A MORE GEOEFFECTIVE TRANSIENT? METHODOLOGY: OBJECTIVE 1) WE WILL IMPROVE ON-DISK DETECTION BY IMPROVING SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO IN SDO/AIA IMAGES USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SUMMATIONS AND ADJUSTING TIME SPANS OF DIFFERENCE AND RATIO IMAGES. THESE CHANGES WILL ALLOW US TO FOCUS ON SLOW FAINT SIGNATURES. WE WILL USE STEREO/SECCHI IMAGES WHEN STEREO WAS NEAR QUADRATURE (STEREO OBSERVES EARTH-DIRECTED EVENTS AS LIMB EVENTS) TO LINK CME STRUCTURES TO THEIR INTERPLANETARY COUNTERPARTS. OBJECTIVE 2) WE WILL INVESTIGATE STEALTH CMES/ICMES ORIGINATING FROM EXPANDING LOOPS AROUND CORONAL HOLES. WE WILL DETERMINE IF SUCH ICMES HAVE ELECTRON STRAHL SIGNATURES SIMILAR TO THOSE OUTLINED BY CROOKER ET AL. (2004). OBJECTIVE 3) STEALTH CMES GAIN SPEED DUE TO INTERACTION WITH AMBIENT SOLAR WIND BUT SOME ERUPTION GEOMETRIES ARE MORE CONDUCIVE TO ACCELERATION. CORRELATIONS BETWEEN STEALTH CMES ERUPTING IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS RELATIVE TO CORONAL HOLES AND SLOW ICMES IMPACTED BY FAST SOLAR WIND THAT INCREASE THEIR GEOEFFECTIVENESS WILL BE TESTED AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL GEOMETRIES USING SOLAR WIND AND MAGNETOSPHERIC MODELING. RELEVANCE: THIS PROPOSAL IS RELEVANT TO TWO DECADAL SURVEY SCIENCE GOALS (1) DETERMINE THE ORIGINS OF THE SUN S ACTIVITY AND PREDICT THE VARIATIONS IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT: WE AIM TO UNDERSTAND CMES WHICH ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SUN S ACTIVITY CAUSING MAJOR VARIATIONS IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT. (4) DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE: WE FOCUS ON HOW COMMONLY SOLAR ERUPTIONS CAN BE TRIGGERED BY MAGNETIC RECONNECTION ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES IN THE UNIVERSE.

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SBIR PHASE I: OPTIMIZERAERO - A ROBUST PRODUCTION SCHEDULING OPTIMIZER FOR AEROSPACE MANUFACTURERS

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SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION OF OCEAN WORLDS ULTIMATELY REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT ICE PENETRATION. WE PROPOSE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENTIRELY NOVEL ICE PENETRATING TECHNOLOGY USING LASER LIGHT CARRIED BY AN OPTICAL FIBER TETHER AND EMITTED FROM THE PROBE S NOSE CONE DIRECTLY INTO THE ICE. THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS CRITICAL BENEFITS OVER CONVENTIONAL HOT POINT MELT PROBES AND MECHANICAL DRILLS AND IS PARTICULARLY ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE EXTREME COLD AND VACUUM ENVIRONMENT ON OCEAN WORLDS. CURRENTLY OUR DIRECT LASER PROBE IS TARGETED FOR VERY EFFICIENT PENETRATION OF 1 TO 10 METERS DEPTH AND SCALES WELL FOR PENETRATION OF 10S TO 100S OF METERS. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT STONE AEROSPACE OVER A RANGE OF POWER LEVELS AND ICE PENETRATION RATES PRODUCED EXCELLENT RESULTS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS (TRL 3) AND ACHIEVING THE FASTEST RECORDED CRYOBOT DESCENT SPEED TO DATE. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP BUILD AND CHARACTERIZE A DIRECT-LASER-BASED PENETRATOR SYSTEM REFINING AND ADVANCING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO TRL 5. WE WILL TEST A RANGE OF PROBE DIAMETERS AND LASER POWER LEVELS UNDER RELEVANT EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. ADDITIONALLY WE WILL INVESTIGATE FIBER-COUPLED OPTICAL BIOMARKER SENSORS THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LASER S FIBER OPTIC TETHER. CONVENTIONAL HOT POINT MELT PROBES TESTED UNDER VACUUM HAVE SHOWN EXTREME DIFFICULTY INITIATING PENETRATION (KAUFMANN ET AL. 2009) AS THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO THERMAL CONTACT BETWEEN THE PROBE NOSE AND ROUGH ICE SURFACE. THE ICE SIMPLY SUBLIMATES AND ANY TRANSFERRED HEAT IS QUICKLY DISSIPATED DUE TO THE LOW POWER DENSITY AND EXTREME COLD. WITH DIRECT LASER HEATING NO THERMAL CONTACT IS NEEDED AND 100% OF THE LASER POWER IS DEPOSITED DIRECTLY INTO THE ICE WITH NO THERMAL HANDLING LOSSES. FURTHERMORE 1070 NM RADIATION HAS GREATER ABSORPTION IN ICE THAN IN WATER WHICH LIMITS ATTENUATION THROUGH ANY WATER POCKET IN FRONT OF THE PROBE. HIGHER POWER DENSITIES AND FASTER CRYOBOT PENETRATION TIMES ARE NOW MADE POSSIBLE WHICH IS CRITICAL BECAUSE PROBE EFFICIENCY CLIMBS DRAMATICALLY AT HIGHER SPEEDS BY AVOIDING EXTREME CONDUCTIVE LOSSES IN COLD ICE. A MAJOR BENEFIT OF DEPOSITING ENERGY INTO A VOLUME OF ICE RATHER THAN UPON A SURFACE IS A LOWER RESULTING TEMPERATURE FOR SAMPLING COMPARED TO HOT POINT PROBES WHICH MUST GENERATE LARGE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS TO FORCE THE HEAT THROUGH LAYERS OF ICE AND WATER. DURING PROOF OF CONCEPT TESTING WE OBSERVED ONLY MODERATE TEMPERATURE RISES AT THE ICE-WATER INTERFACE IMPLYING THAT SAMPLES WILL NOT BE EXCESSIVELY HEATED. ANOTHER ADVANTAGE TO THIS LASER APPROACH IS THAT THE PROBE S FIBER OPTIC TETHER ALONG WITH A DEDICATED SENSOR FIBER ENABLE A FORM OF "OPTICAL ACCESS" TO THE SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT. THIS ACCESS CAN BE UTILIZED BY A LANDER S ON-BOARD INSTRUMENTS (RAMAN SPECTROMETER ETC.) OR INSTRUMENTS DEDICATED TO THE PENETRATOR (FIBER SPECTROMETER EM SENSOR FOR LIGHT SPECTRUM ETC). THESE SENSORS CAN SEARCH FOR BIOMARKERS AND CHARACTERIZE THE RADIATION/LIGHT ENVIRONMENT FOR SUBSURFACE HABITABILITY INCLUDING PHOTOSYNTHETIC POTENTIAL AND RADIATION ENVIRONMENT AS A SOURCE FOR ENERGY AND DAMAGE. THIS COMBINATION LASER PENETRATOR AND INTEGRATED FIBER INSTRUMENTS COULD BE A POWERFUL NEW LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR AN OCEAN WORLD LANDER. TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT ARE: 1. DEVELOP AND BUILD A DIRECT-LASER PENETRATOR 2. TEST AND CHARACTERIZE THE PENETRATOR IN ICE UNDER VACUUM AND AT 100K TEMPERATURE OVER A RANGE OF PENETRATOR DIAMETERS. 3. INVESTIGATE FIBER-COUPLED OPTICAL SENSING STRATEGIES INCLUDING BOTH PAIRING THE FIBER WITH POTENTIAL ON-BOARD INSTRUMENTS AS WELL AN IN-SITU DEMONSTRATION OF INTEGRATED SPECTROGRAPHIC AND EM INSTRUMENTS. CO-I HOGAN WILL LEAD DIRECT LASER MELTING DEVELOPMENT AND CRYOBOT DESIGN. CO-I BRAMALL A LIFE-DETECTION INSTRUMENT DESIGNER WILL MANAGE FIBER SENSING AND SPECTROSCOPY INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION. CO-I CHRISTNER WILL SERVE AS MICROBIOLOGY ADVISOR.

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