NOTABLE TI | June 10, 2020
DSIAC received a technical inquiry on using shape memory alloys (SMAs) as a joining or coupling intermediate for materials with dissimilar thermal expansion coefficients (CTEs)...
Advanced Materials / EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | June 10, 2020
DSIAC was asked to provide some assessment on the general acceptance of using MTBUR and MTBD instead of MTBF, using "defect" instead of "failures." DSIAC...
RMQSINOTABLE TI | June 01, 2020
DSIAC was asked for any information regarding light-emitting diode (LED) component requirements for aircraft display panels as a follow-up to the technical inquiry on "Aircraft Display...
Military Sensing / RMQSINOTABLE TI | June 01, 2020
DSIAC staff collected information on developmental and production-ready lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) platform programs designed to provide long-endurance (multiple-day) operation at stratospheric altitudes. ...
Autonomous Systems / Military SensingNOTABLE TI | June 01, 2020
DSIAC was asked for sensor technologies and methodologies for obstacle and room mapping. DSIAC performed open-source and DTIC literature searches for relevant information. The most...
Autonomous Systems / Military SensingNOTABLE TI | May 29, 2020
DSIAC subject matter experts (SMEs) at BluePath Labs were tasked to support a manufacturing technology group within the U.S. Army on five different aspects of the...
Advanced Materials / RMQSINOTABLE TI | May 28, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with determining what is currently being done with fluorescence, emission sensing, and detection methods for chemical threat agents. A chemical, biological, radiological,...
Energetics / Military SensingNOTABLE TI | May 28, 2020
DSIAC received a technical inquiry requesting information on research into and availability of flexible thermal protection system materials. Materials engineering subject matter experts at the...
Advanced MaterialsNOTABLE TI | May 28, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with determining and summarizing research being done with materials and/or design features to improve the lethality of future small arms ammunition. DSIAC...
Advanced Materials / Weapons SystemsNOTABLE TI | May 28, 2020
Special Operations Forces (SOF) military personnel requested information on the Sherp ATVs. DSIAC accessed Ukrainian, U.S., and Canadian source materials. A report on characteristics, features,...
RMQSINOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was asked about instrumentation requirements for electromagnetic environment effects (E3) testing of upcoming Fifth Generation, or 5G, versus existing Fourth Generation, or 4G, networking...
Military Sensing / RMQSINOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with providing government off-the-shelf (GOTS), commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or high technology readiness level (TRL) developmental solutions for portable, configurable, and reliable RF...
Autonomous Systems / Directed Energy / Military Sensing / Weapons SystemsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with compiling ground and airborne autonomous unmanned vehicle systems capable of providing combat operations Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) support to combatant command units...
Autonomous Systems / Survivability and VulnerabilityNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was asked for information pertaining to the capability of current EMRG systems to support the launch of objects, mainly SmallSats in the CubeSat/nanosatellite to...
Energetics / Weapons SystemsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with compiling a list of U.S. Government (USG) organizations with OTA and any OT agreements issued by the U.S. Department of Defense...
Advanced Materials / Autonomous Systems / C4ISR / Directed Energy / Energetics / Military Sensing / Non-Lethal Weapons / RMQSI / Survivability and Vulnerability / Weapons SystemsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC staff searched open sources and the Defense Technical Information Center's Research & Engineering Gateway for relevant reports and studies and contacted DE subject matter...
Directed EnergyNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was asked to update a prior technical inquiry conducted in mid 2018 on "Soldier Adaptive Camouflage Technologies." DSIAC performed a search for recent, relevant...
Military Sensing / Survivability and VulnerabilityNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
Drone swarming is a debated definition within the DoD community and a term that has varied definitions, depending on the organization discussing it. DSIAC was tasked with...
Autonomous SystemsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
A DSIAC subject matter expert from the Johns Hopkins University Energetics Research Group performed open source and Joint Army Navy NASA Air Force (JANNAF) repository...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
DSIAC was tasked with collecting information of kinetic kill C-UAS in support of the U.S. Army - specifically, user feedback on C-UAS. DSIAC contacted representatives...
Autonomous Systems / Survivability and Vulnerability / Weapons Systems