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Ohio Federal and Military Jobs Commission (OFMJC) Support Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN)

Improving Ohio’s Economy Through R&D

Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

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AFRL

• Human Performance/ Health Sciences
• Hypersonics
• Directed Energy Weapons (Lasers)
• Autonomy
• C4ISR
• LVC
• Materials/ Manufacturing
• Propulsion

NASA Glenn

• Hybrid Electric Propulsion
• Air-breathing Propulsion
• Advanced Communications
• Solar Electric Propulsion
• Power and Energy Storage
• Materials and Manufacturing

NASIC

• Cyber
• Data analytics
• C4ISR
• Modeling/Simulation/Analysis
• Hypersonics
• Directed Energy
• Space Systems

Naval Medical Research Unit

• Human performance
• Human physiology
• Manned /unmanned aeromedical ops
• Toxicology
• Risk assessment

Next Steps WPAFB/NASA Glenn Priorities

• Collaboration and Proposal Quality is increasing dramatically ‐ yet requires

continued support and focus

• Projects required a lead university, 2 partner universities, and at least one

Industry sponsor and Federal sponsor.

• 11 of 13 Ohio Research Universities
• won competitive funding from Round 1 and Round 2 ‐ $18 million in awards
• Worked with Universities to improve their success going forward.
• 57 Business Partners engaged‐
• half are small businesses ‐ $1.6 million awarded to industry
• Industry Days and regional meetings held throughout the state
• Multiple Universities Across State Pursuing Joint Efforts Across DoD
• Joint Proposals in Excess of $350M are now in the Pipeline across Ohio
• Universities have won $117M+ in new awards from DARPA, ONR, AFRL,

NASA, and IARPA

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Impact to Date

• Ohio FY18‐19 Budget included $3.45M / Yr for OFRN
• Have $1.9M remaining from previous budget cycle.
• Investing up to $8.8M in Round 3
• Submitted a $15M Federal Request in FY18 Defense Budget and

Submitting in FY19 Defense Budget

• Working with entire Ohio Federal House and Senate legislative

delegation.

• Got $10M FY18 NDAA for AFRL.
• Got $10M in FY19 House and Senate NDAA for AFRL
• Round 3 RFP process is ongoing‐‐designed to foster integrated

solutions

• OFRN will invest $7M to $10M in projects

Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) $31.9M of State Funding Total for FY16‐19

Growing Ohio’s Economy by Leveraging Research and Development

$350 million in new federal research contracts over five years

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Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Priorities NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) Priorities National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Priorities Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) Priorities

State of Ohio

Wright State University & The Ohio State University Technical Review Council Executive Review Board Human Performance and Health Sciences Wright State Univ. Power and Propulsion Ohio State Univ. C4ISR & Data Analytics Wright State Univ. Ohio State Univ. Energy Storage and Integration Case Western Reserve Univ. Materials and Adv. Manufacturing

• Univ. of Dayton

C2PNT Ohio Univ.

Outcomes: $20M in OFRN Funds leading to $117M in follow‐on and $350M in process

Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) $31.9M of State Funding Total for FY16‐19

Growing Ohio’s Economy by Leveraging Research and Development

$350 million in new federal research contracts over five years

Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

OCPP COE - Hybrid/Turboelectric Propulsion and Power

Design and verify a 300-kW and 2-MW electric drive system for hybrid turbo/electric propulsion.

• Period of performance: 36 months.
• Major milestones:
• Converter: tested the 3-phase 300-kW converter under full

load using a 100-kW permanent magnet machine.

• Machine: rotor failure analysis finished, rotor redesigned,

sent for manufacturing.

• Drive system: converter integrate with an alternative motor.
• Deliverables: 300-kW machine prototype, 300-kW power

converter prototype, loss and weight estimation, 2-MW design.

• Key technical risks: delay in motor manufacturing, high speed
• peration stability.

Challenges: high power density and high efficiency of the electric machine and power electronic converter.

• Teams: OSU and University of Akron (UA)
• Potential economic development impact for the State of

Ohio:

• Create more jobs in the fields of electrified aircraft and

advanced power semiconductor devices.

• Additional research: NASA University Leadership Initiative

($10 M for 5 years), GE/State of Ohio ($2.5 M for 5 years), DoE vehicle program ($2 M for 3 years), NASA brushless doubly-fed machine program ($2 M for 3 years).

• Commercial impact industry/sector/business partners:
• Aerospace, automotive, heavy-duty vehicle industry.
• GE Aviation, NASA, AFRL, Boeing, Ford, GM, etc.
• SAFRAN, SMART Microsystems.
• Federal Stakeholder: NASA. Goals in NASA’s hybrid-

turboelectric propulsion technology roadmap:

• Power density 14 kW/kg for machine and 25 kW/kg for

power converter.

• Efficiency 99% for both machine and power converter.
• Potential impact on federal stakeholder mission:
• Innovations: slotless stator, caved rotor, hybrid switch, and

3-level T-typte neutral point clamp converter.

• Benefits for federal customers: 1) understand risks

solutions to achieve the power density/efficiency requirements; 2) identify the technology gaps between research and commercialization of large electrified aircraft.

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

5 OBJECTIVE: Develop High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys

• NASA Glenn Research Center (High Temperature &

Smart Alloys Branch)

• 2015 NASA Technology Roadmaps TA 12: Materials,

Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing.

• Shape-morphing materials for a variety of applications,

i.e., control surfaces, deployable reentry vehicles, expandable habitats, and deformable mirrors

• Univ of Toldeo, OSU, CWRU
• Estimate 20 jobs; ~$20M potential from creation of the Global

Center for Shape Memory Materials & Structures

• Various fundamental and applied funding opportunities at

NASA, AFRL, US DOE, NSF, and DARPA

• Industry Partners: GE Aviation, Lincoln Electric, and Norman

Noble

actuators

• Period of Performance: [24 months]

Milestones

• Identification of NASA desired composition for HTSMAs
• Characterization of the structure of the HTSMAs using high-

resolution TEM Deliverables

• Alloy development for High Temperature SMAs by adding

different amounts of ternary elements

• Create functional shape memory and superelastic NiTiHf

Risks:

• Thermodynamic stability of ternary additions to Ni-Ti
• Embrittling

M&M COE – Adaptive Bio-Inspired Aerospace Structures Actuated by Shape Memory Alloys

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

Ohio PRESIDES COE - High Performance Multifunctional Structural Energy Storage

Create high‐performance multifunctional structural energy storage systems. Establish multifunctional design rules and performance guidelines for their integration. Challenges: Manufacturing compatibility; Electrochemical performance of embedded cells; Structural integrity of structural battery; Thermal management. PI: Vikas Prakash (CWRU) NASA: J. M. Pereira, Patricia Loyselle AFRL: M. Rottmayer, J. Baur, T. Howell University partners: Bo Li (CWRU); Bang‐Hung Tsao (UDRI) Industry partners: Jim Green (CSA America), Jeff Taylor (Event 38 Unmanned Systems), B. Henslee (CRG Inc.) Economic impact: (in 2 years): Jobs: 2+; Follow‐on federal funding: $300K/year Commercial Impact (sectors): Aerospace; Automotive; Energy; Consumer Electronics; Health NASA + AFRL: multifunctional load‐bearing structures with energy storage functionality; potential weight & volume savings; Increase flight endurance and payload capacity; specific energy density >300 Wh/kg; long‐life >100 cycles; & safe. AFRL: Small and micro UAVs; self‐powered load‐bearing structures; autonomous sensor networks & surveillance NASA: Structural energy storage for electric propulsion; cross‐ cutting programs on light‐weighting and reduced onboard power for space & aero‐vehicles; extra‐vehicular suits; power load‐leveling for solar powered missions. Period of performance: 24 months Key Milestones: Q1: Target applications, candidate structural materials and commercial batteries identified. Q5: Multifunctional design of structure‐battery. Q7: Prototype and Validation Q8: Multifunctional design rules, performance guidelines & industry standards established. Key deliverable: Structure‐battery modules: sandwich structures, I‐beams etc. Focus—sUAS, more‐electric air‐vehicles Key risk: None

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

C4ISR w/HPHS COEs - Human-Centered Big Data (HCBD)

• Period of Performance: 24 months
• Milestones: 1) Demo active learning in interactive search; 2) Demo

proof‐of‐concept explainable machine learning; 3) Demo interactive visualization for knowledge discovery concept

• Deliverables: 1) Active learning algorithms for human‐in‐the‐loop

information search and down‐select; 2) Algorithms for explainable machine learning; 3) Concepts and algorithms for interactive visualization in knowledge discovery

(1) Improve discovery and hypothesis generation from Big Data. (2) Increase transparency and trustworthiness of analytic algorithms to maximize human‐in‐the‐loop analytic performance

• NASIC/AF requirement: Advanced techniques & technologies for

Big Data analysis.

• Current limitations: Discovering relevant information in Big Data is
• challenging. Analytic algorithms (e.g., deep neural networks) are

helpful but are “black boxes” lacking transparency.

• Our solution: Develop active learning algorithms for enabling

iterative search and information down‐select. Leverage semantic

• ntologies to generate human‐understandable explanations of an

algorithm’s internal representations & outputs. Impact: Optimal integration of human & machine intelligence will greatly improve accuracy & reliability of analytic products.

• Sponsors: NASIC/GXKA (M. Brown), AFRL/RH (M. Talbert).
• Team members: WSRI/WSU, Ohio State, Case Western. Industry

partners: Heureka Software; Perduco Group, Ipsos, Hewlett Packard, DesignKnowledge, LexisNexis, Nuance, Illumination Works, Tenet3, Broadline Capital, Columbus Collaboratory, Amperand, MatchTx

• >$12M in potential new R&D funding: IARPA, DARPA, NSF, DoD

Labs

• Est. 40 new jobs (established industries & start‐ups)
• Broad potential impact extends to non‐DoD industries. Health

care analystics; business analytics (marketing, finance, demand forecasting), infrastructure management (energy grid), and geopolitical analysis (election forecasting, risk assessment)

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FRN Confidential

Vision: Make Ohio the nexus for unmanned air systems (UASs), personal air vehicles (PAVs), and logistics delivery air vehicles (LDAVs) testing, integration, and manufacturing.

• Short‐term Strategy: Create OFRN Air Demo with NASA‐AFRL assets for

disaster response demonstration

• Long‐term Strategy: Use staggered Challenge programs to demo Ohio‐based

personal aircraft in 2022

OFRN 5 Year Strategy

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DIST R IBUT ION A. Appr

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public r e le ase : distr ibution unlimite d.

• Enterprise Unveiled Dec 6, 2017
• Tech Connect, Tech Ops, Tech Warrior Exercise

̶ TW Connect-One on One with SBIR/STTR ̶ TW Ops-operators use/evaluate products ̶ TW Exercise- 10-day full immersion event

• Recent Success
• Tech Ops

̶ April 9-13, 2018 & April 16-20, 2018

• 10 Companies with 4 user groups
• GSA contract Awarded

̶ July 16-20, 2018

• 9 Companies, 4-user groups
• USAF Small Business Director (Ms. Valerie Muck) visit
• Tech Warrior Exercise

̶ September 18-28, 2018 ̶ Projected 50 participants with 20+ Technologies

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Tech Warrior (TW) Enterprise

Construct for Round 3 Ohio Federal Research Network

Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Priorities NASA Glenn Research Ctr (GRC) Priorities National Air & Space Intelligence Ctr (NASIC) Priorities Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) Priorities

State of Ohio

Technical Review Council Executive Review Board United States Marine Corps (USMC) Priorities

Round 3 Goal:

Make Ohio a leader in development and manufacturing support in Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) & heavy‐lift Logistics Delivery Vehicles (LDVs)

Ohio National Guard Priorities Wright State University & The Ohio State University

Industry Needs

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Executive Review Board Designee Technical Review Council Designee

OSU Dean of Engineering

• Dr. Dave Williams

UA Dean, College of Polymer Science and Engineering

• Dr. Eric Amis

WSU President

• Dr. Cheryl Schrader

UC Dept Head AEEM, OAATC

• Dr. Paul Orkwis

CSU President

• Dr. Harlan M. Sands

KSU Director of Aeronautics, OOAC/OAATC

• Dr. Maureen McFarland

LCCC President Emeritus

• Dr. Roy Church

NASA Glenn Sandra Reehorst UD President

• Dr. Eric Spina

AFRL Frank Albanese / Dean Evans OU President

• Dr. M. Duane Nellis

NASIC Mark Brown CASE President TBD

• Dr. Barbara Snyder

NAMRU‐D

• Dr. Richard Arnold

UT President

• Dr. Sharon L. Gaber

Ohio National Guard

• Col. James Camp

OFMJC Gary O'Connell US Marine Corps

• Maj. Brandon Newell

NASA Glenn Director

• Dr. Janet Kavandi

Industry 1

• Dr. T.S. Sudarshan

AFRL Thomas Lockhart Industry 2

• Dr. Suguna Rachakonda

NASIC Curt Rowland Industry 3

• Dr. Angie Bukley

NAMRU‐D

• Dr. Richard Arnold

Industry 4 / Former DARPA PM Dr. Viktoria Greanya (Chair) Jobs Ohio Glenn Richardson Ohio Third Frontier Diane Chime Ohio National Guard Maj Gen Mark Bartman Business 1 Jerry Frantz Ohio Third Frontier Karen Conrad Business 2 Jim Wheeler Industry 1 Chair Ricky Peters, Ascend Business 3 Jessica Sattler Industry 2 Salvatore Miraglia, Jr. NAS Member

• Dr. David Aspnes

Industry 3 James Haywood Former DHS Craig Chambers SDGAir Advisors Ryan Smith

Reviewer (ERB and TRC) Composition

Round 3 Ohio Federal Research Network

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Round 3 Goal:

Make Ohio a leader in development and manufacturing support in Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) & heavy‐lift Logistics Delivery Vehicles (LDVs)

RFI

(Oct 2017)

Challenge RFP

(Jan 2018)

Emergency Demos

(2018-19)

Flight Demos

( 2022)

Request for information to determine key industry needs in PAV/ UAS/ LDV space Request for proposals to industry-academic teams to address needs through challenge grants and University – Industry Led R&D Projects Demo of Industry-academic teams awarded challenge grants in emergency response situation coordinated with National Guard, AFRL & NASA In-flight demonstrations

• f tools developed from

industry needs RFI and funded research

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RFI Respondees (+2 via NDA)

Respondee Aditas Inc AFRL‐ RQQ AiRXOS (GE) Asymmetric Tech Cal Analytics LLC Comsat Architects Dayton Wright Composite and Ceramic Development Center (DWCC) Event 38 Unmanned Systems Inc. GE‐ Additive GE‐ Aviation Advanced Tech Ghostwave Hexagonal Scientific Lab Hypertech Research Respondee Kent State Univ. Lucintech NASA Glenn NEOEx Systems Ohio Drone LLC OSU CDME PAR Government Systems Corp Rubix Technologies SAFRAN Sierra Nevada Corp Taylor Winfield

• Univ. of Akron

Velocity Group Zin Technologies

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RFI Topic Areas Response

• Energy, Autonomy and Other most popular topics

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Federal Customer High-Level Requirements

Partner Requirements

AFRL  Mobile and Ground Based Detect and Avoid  Safe access to mixed manned/unmanned airspace without op tempo disruption  Terminal air ops and AF UAS capabilities  Human‐machine interface Air National Guard  UAS Sense and Avoid Systems  Persistent Full‐Spectrum Communication Repeater  Mobile Ad Hoc Networks  UAS Deployable Launch and Recovery Kit  Command and Control Liaison Kit  Joint Incident Site Communication Capability and Block III Incident Site Data Service Extension NAMRU‐D  Human‐machine interface  Personnel performance characteristics  Advanced mobile sea platforms NASA  Demonstration of T34 capability  Persistent and scalable Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS)  Portable Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) and Persistent UTM NASIC  Secure and encrypted communications and UAS control  Persistent Sensing and Multi‐Int Data Analytics  Space Applications USMC  Mobile local manufacturing and digital in‐field production  Logistics delivery systems and automation

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Areas of Interest for RFP

Computation & Analytics

Automated Datafeed Analytics Computational Efficiency Onboard Heat Management

Energy Efficiency & Onboard Safety

Cryogenic Systems On‐board Energy Safety Protocols

Comms, Sensors, Security

Integrated Comms/Sensors Detect & Avoid Security & Encryption

Alternative Airfields

Universal Translator Alternative Airfields

Field Swappable Aircraft

Plug‐and‐Play Payloads Field swap Aircraft

• Other. . .

Everything else

Prototyping & Qualification

Rapid hardware/software qualification Virtual manufacturing

Human Interaction & Policy

Traffic Management Operational Effectiveness

Award Decision Stage 2: Full Proposal Stage 1: White Papers

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OFRN Proposal Review Process

1. White Papers are reviewed by the OFRN Technical Review Council (TRC). MARCH 23 2. Full Submissions are reviewed by OFRN Technical Review Council (TRC) and the OFRN Executive Review Board (ERB). JUNE 2018 to EARLY JULY 2018 3. Review recommendations are presented to the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) for approval of funding. JULY 2018

• 5 Proposals selected by TRC: $8,289,062 total requested funds
• Currently available funding will only support first 4 full proposals

($6,303,004)

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Round 3: Selected

Rank # Project Name (Lead Applicant) Requested Funding Cost Share Jobs Federal Follow‐on Funding Project End By 2022 Project End By 2022 1 315 Autonomous/ Remote Piloted Cirrus SR22 Aerial Surveillance Platform and Personnel Air Vehicle “Air Uber” System (Persistent Surveillance Systems) $1,999,963 $5,480,397 25 100 $9,300,000 $45,750,000 2 314 RUTMS – Regional Unmanned Traffic Management System (University of Cincinnati) $968,946 $1,009,024 6 56 $925,000 $3,500,000 3 309 UAS Detect and Avoid Sensor Fusion of Stealthy Radars and Vision (Ghostwave Inc.) $1,332,233 $1,262,500 5 25 $300,000 $500,000 4 303 Brushless Doubly‐fed Machine and Drive System for Aviation Application (The Ohio State University) $2,001,862 $2,229,674 20 120 $2,000,000 7,000,000 5 324 On‐Board Energy Production and Storage for Highly Capable UAVs (University of Toledo) $1,986,058 $1,991,963 14 38 $14,500,000 $30,000,000

OFRN SOARING Round 3 Funded Category 1 Projects Quad Charts

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

Persistent Surveillance - Autonomous/Remote Piloted Cirrus SR22 Aerial

Surveillance Platform and Personnel Air Vehicle “Air Uber” System

What: Conversion of FAA Certified 4-passenger Cirrus SR22 aircraft into fully autonomous air vehicle

• Quick Install Kit for remote pilot support & UAS
• perations based on certified Avionics/Autopilots.
• Multi-INT, modular payloads for ISR / emergency mgt

Why: Multiple Commercial and DoD markets/missions

• Baseline air vehicle for “Uber Air”; Autonomous

Surveillance for DoD/first-responder missions Challenges: System certification for NAS operations

• AFRL Sensors & Aircraft Systems–Sensor Flight Test Support
• NASA Glen Command and Control – UAS NAS integration
• Ohio National Guard – Multi-INT, swappable mission pods
• Impact on federal stakeholder mission
• Current Federal Limitation: Current autonomous air vehicles

lack the payload capacity and endurance required by major sensors in development and require millions to integrate/test

• Benefits for Federal Customers: Provides an affordable and

flexible Ohio alternative for flight testing of sensors and systems.

• Cost effective platform to test sensors, radars, ELINT,

communication, see & avoid systems in reconfigurable pod

• New approach – Commercial product/service based,

established, large commercial market

• Members: Results Driven: Industry, Academia, DoD team
• Persistent Surveillance Systems Surv pylds Beavercreek OH
• Ohio University – COE C2NPT Integrity and Safety
• Wright State University – CS Detect Image processing
• AFRL RYMD, RQQD, NASA Glenn Command and Control (C2)
• Cirrus/Avidyne Commercial Aviation upgrades & mods
• MacAir Aviation AC Mods and flt testing Xenia Ohio
• Autonodyne / Avidyne Adv Avionics to open office OH
• MacNauchtan Dev – Immersive Sims Beavercreek OH
• Bosma Technologies Dayton–Air-to-Air Refuel – Dayton
• Potential economic development impact:
• 50‐100 jobs, $5.4 M in matching funds and effort
• $35M in identified potential Gov programs
• $42M in potential aircraft upgrades and support service
• Requested Budget Total: $2,000,000
• Year 2018: $750,000 Year 2019:$1,250,000
• Period of Performance: 18 Months
• Milestones:
• Demo of remote pilot support for extended surveillance
• Military Exercise Support with multiple mission pods
• Demonstration of remote pilot support for civil pilots
• “Air Uber” demonstration for Uber executives
• Deliverables: – Certifiable Remote Pilot Assisted and

Autonomous SR22 with pilot support service

• AC Quick mod kit for conversion of the 5,500 SR22s
• Multiple mission pods, Air to Air refueling system
• Key risks: End-to-End integration; FAA approvals

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

University of Cincinnati – Regional Unmanned Traffic Management System (RUTMS)

• Objectives: Partial Universal Translator of sUAS to

communicate with Springfield GBSAA and/or Piccolo Autopilot, Creation of Regional Unmanned Traffic Management System

• Challenges: Closed Architecture of many sUAS prevents true

Universal Translator from being created

• University Partners
• University of Cincinnati: Kelly Cohen, Manish Kumar, Raj

Sharma, Jiaqi Ma, Justin Ouwerkerk, Bryan Brown

• Sinclair Community College: Jeff Miller, Andrew Shepherd,

Todd Simpson, Ryan Palm, Casey Dearth

• Industry Partners
• Demeter UAVs: Terry Hofecker
• Simlat Ltd.: Roy Peshin
• UAS services could create 56+ jobs in OH, 98+ by 2024
• Research projects have the potential to generate new,

commercially relevant products and/or IP, in both localization and RUTMS

• Commercial strategies will applied as necessary to

emerging IP or patentable products

• AFRL: POC: David Casbeer (david.casbeer@us.af.mil), Team

Lead, UAV Cooperative & Intelligent Control, Control Science Center of Excellence, AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate

• Potential Impact on Federal Stakeholders:
• Current operations are limited in handling multiple kinds of

autopilots

• The proposed effort will enable mission planning for

multiple UAS and an enhanced collision avoidance system.

• Enable operations in a GPS denied and urban canyons
• Period of Performance: [18 months]
• Requested Budget Total: [$1,900,000.00] with 1:1 cost share
• Milestones:
• Demonstrate the translator and associated software for

visualization, mission planning, and localization.

• Test integration of software with multiple autopilots
• Testing and demonstrations using disaster

response/emergency management scenarios

• Risks:
• Developing Translator given the “closed” autopilots

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

GhostWave – Detect and Avoid Sensor Fusion

• AFRL and Air National Guard both are asking for Detect(UAS Sense) and

Avoid Systems

• Current systems are vision based and do not perform well in Degraded

Visual Environments.(DVE)

• This System
• Includes radars that provide more information than optical

solutions and perform well in DVE.

• This approach uses the best of optical and radar by sensor fusion,
• The customer will have a Detect and Avoid System that performs

in DVE and is immune from jamming, interference and is drone swarm friendly.

• Team Members are from The Ohio State University, Ohio University, Lockheed

Martin, GhostWave, Event 38 and IS4S

• With awarding this project, IS4S will begin open offices in Ohio for two new

engineers and GhostWave will hire an engineer.

• Post Project

Begin commercialization of the solution and expanding to fixed wing and larger UAVs.

• Adding up to 20 engineering and manufacturing jobs by 2020
• In addition to engineering, electronic manufacturing in Ohio will also increase

for the radar sensors that are part of the solution.

• Department of Defense is looking into UAV Survivability which could use this

technology in a larger project

• The commercial impact includes providing Sense and Avoid systems for

agriculture, real estate, and hobbyist. Potential business partners include DJI, Parrot and others.

• Requested Budget Total:$1,395K
• Year 1:$932k, Year 2:$463K (Spending by calendar year)
• Period of Performance: 18 months
• Milestones:

Design Radar System Sensor Fusion of Camera / Radar Integrate with UAS Demonstration at Calamityville

• List Deliverables: 1. Multi-rotor copter that passes Calamityville test, 2. Sensor

Fusion Detect and Avoid System, 3. Radar Prioritization Algorithms.

• Key technical risks include having processing power on board to perform tasks

and developing fusion algorithms. (there will be more processing power by intro)

• Sensor Fusion of Optical and

Radar

• Immune from Interference of
• ther UAV
• Light weight
• Low power
• Onboard. Closed Loop System
• Future BVLOS Requirement

AOI#14 Detect and Avoid

Detect Detect Avoid Avoid

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

The Ohio State University: Brushless Doubly-fed Machine and Drive Systems for Aviation Application

• Demonstrate new innovative design in a 200 kW size
• Sponsoring organizations
• NASA Glenn: Ray Beach/Cheryl Bowman
• AFRL: John Nairus
• Team
• The Ohio State University
• SAFRAN
• UDRI
• Economic Impact—short term technology development at

universities and in multiple manufacturing facilities—SAFRAN, ZIN Technologies, Fredon, Accurate Metal, Warren Screw

• Long term potential production activities: 80-100 people
• Year 1: $0.7 M, Year 2: $1.3 M
• Cost share: $2.235 M
• Period of Performance: 18 months
• Milestones:
• Power system and motor/gen design complete by

month 3.

• Manufacturing complete by month 11
• Demonstration complete by month 18
• Deliverable: 200kW brushless doubly-fed machine and drive

systems

• Risks
• Magnetic performance of new machines are lower than

expected

• Time delay caused by long lead time of some parts
• Potential impact on federal stakeholder mission:
• Helps NASA and AFRL achieve key goals in electrified

aircraft technology.

• Weight, cost, and manufacturing complexity reduction
• Safer system under fault conditions
• Design, develop and demonstrate

a brushless doubly-fed machine based hybrid electric drive system for more electric aircraft.

• Application for VTOL, UAS, PAV,

LDV propulsion for AFRL and NASA applications.

• Only portion of power through

converter: 30-40% reduction in system weight; reduced losses/thermal load.

• 50% reduction in system cost
• Safer shutdown under fault

conditions.

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OFRN SOARING Unfunded Category 1 Projects Quad Charts

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

University of Toledo – On-Board Energy Production and Storage for Highly Capable UAVs

• Team Members: University of Toledo, Ohio State University,

Bowling Green State University, Lucintech, Battelle, Theiss UAV Solutions, Event 38, Lithium Battery Engineering, ENrG

• Projected potential economic development impact for Ohio:
• Jobs:

14 by 2019 38 by 2022

• Additional research: $14.15M by 2019 $30M by 2022
• Potential commercial impact in Ohio:
• UAV, PAV, and LDV manufacturing for variety of markets.
• PV manufacturing and materials supply chain for building/vehicle

integrated and residential applications.

• Technology commercialization, small asset‐lite manufacturing

facility, $7‐$10M in revenue in 3 years, workforce development

• Period of Performance: 18 months
• Requested Budget Total: $1,985k (Y1: $1,323k, Y2: $662k)
• Milestones: M3: Finalize integration option and plans
• M9: Simulate PV and energy management flight modes
• M12: Chose materials to integrate PV into airframe
• Deliverables: M12: Demonstrate energy management flight
• M15: 15% efficient PV cell
• M18: Demonstrate flight with PV and battery source
• Key technical risks: PV: High efficiency cells on substrate
• Integration: Charge-control system for seamless power
• ur PV $

$$$

sketch of PV skin Primus Air VTOL

• NASA: Ultra‐efficient Commercial Vehicles; Transition to Low‐carbon

Propulsion; Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations; Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

• AFRL: Battery as the frame increases carrying capacity. High power

density PV increases flight time and payload capabilities.

• Potential impact on federal stakeholder mission:
• Batteries: Trade‐off between mech strength and performance
• Will use unique cell design to improve both properties
• PV: Trade‐off between high cost and high power production PV
• Will produce high power in low cost, light weight package
• Incorporation of Batteries and PV will result in Primus Air that

can cruise indefinitely as long as the sun shines.

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• Additionally, TRC identified 3 projects that have strong potential, but

require additional development work (“seedling” projects, $250k each)

• Awaiting source of funds.

Proposal Title (Lead Applicant) 323 Enabling Robust UAS Persistent Surveillance using Hybrid Fuel Cells and Advanced Secured Intelligent Aircraft Control (Ohio University) 327 Intelligent Sensemaking (University of Dayton Research Institute) 333 DOME ‐ Disaster Ops Management Extension (PAR Government Systems Corp)

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Round 3: Selected Proposals

Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio

• University Team Members
• Ohio University, Dr. Jay Wilhelm, jwilhelm@ohio.edu
• Ohio State University, Dr. Matt McCrink, mccrink.2@osu.edu
• Industry Team Members
• Asymmetric Technologies, Rob Hettler, hettler@asymmetric.com
• NEOEx Systems, Mark Haberbusch, mark1001@twc.com
• Successful development and deployment of this technology results in several

positive economic impacts for the state of Ohio:

• Approximately $10M in directly related follow-on federal R&D, creating ~20

science and engineering positions at $150k/year salary

• Successful full-rate production rates estimated at 400-500 units per year,

resulting in ~60 full time manufacturing positions at $70k/year

• Ohio-based commercial partners for long-term manufacturing include

Asymmetric Technologies for Secure UAS Flight Controller, NEOEx Systems for fuel-cell production, Ohio manufactured VTOL UAS platform

Project Requirement and Federal Alignment

• Federal Stakeholders & Requirements Satisfied by Buckeye Sentinel:
• AFRL (project sponsor): Mobile and ground-based Detect and Avoid, Safe access to

mixed manned/unmanned airspace without op tempo disruption

• Air National Guard: UAS Sense and Avoid systems
• NASA: Persistent and scalable Communication, Navigation and Surveillance
• NASIC: Secure and encrypted communications and UAS control
• Buckeye Sentinel Technology provides persistent, secure, and intelligent UAS enablers

capable of performing long-term surveillance and other communication/sensing applications

• Current platforms have limited flight durations, proprietary (or no) security protocols, and

no autonomous detect/avoid functionality

• Buckeye Sentinel Technology brings integrated fuel cell power system for ~20 hours of

flight combined with secure flight controller integrated with open-source software for autonomy (PX4) and intelligent detect/avoid (OpenUxAS) to allow Tier I UAS

• peration in congested airspace
• Federal Customer Benefits: safe, secure, long-distance/duration Tier I UAS flights for in-

theater surveillance, sensing or communication relays, autonomous logistics/delivery missions

Ohio University – Buckeye Sentinel

Secure, Persistent, Autonomous Surveillance UAS Technologies

Rough Order of Magnitude Cost and Schedule

• Requested Budget Total: [$] 1,389,000 (OU: $365k, OSU: $300k, Asymmetric: $500k,

NEOEx: $225k)

• Year 1: $919,859, Year 2: $470,050
• Period of Performance: 18 months
• Milestones:

1. Completion of demonstration VTOL platform and integration of fuel cell power system and secure UAS flight controller) 2. Integration and successful testing of OpenUxAS detect and avoid capabilities with Secure UAS Flight Controller 3. Successful long-duration flight testing with liquid hydrogen fuel cell system 4. Successful detect and avoid demonstration with simulated cooperative and non- cooperative aircraft

• Deliverables: (1) secure UAS flight controller with OpenUxAS software integration tuned to
• ur platform, (2) Hybrid Hydrogen Fuel cell system in VTOL platform (3) Disaster scenario

flight demonstration of secured intelligent hydrogen powered UAS

• Technical Risks: Physical integration of fuel cell power system with VTOL UAS,

integrating supervisory messages from OpenUxAS with real-time PX4 autopilot guidance system

Buckeye Sentinel UAS Technologies

Persistent, secure, and intelligent Tier I UAS technologies that enable long-term surveillance,

• ther communication/sensing applications, and logistics/materiel delivery missions

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

UDRI – Intelligent Sensemaking

Problem and Challenge: Automated data feed analytics. Data feeds are complex and high volume multi-modal streams. Federal Alignment:

• AFRL: Technologies for project Maven. Aligns with AFRL autonomy

capability team (ACT3), Autonomy in Motion (AIM) and Autonomy at Rest (A@R). POC: Dr. Steve Rogers (steven.rogers@us.af.mil), Senior Scientist for Autonomy, AFRL

• NASA: UAS Integration in the National Airspace system (NAS) through

C2 for Non-payload communication. POC: Gregory J Follen (gregory.j.follen@nasa.gov), Deputy Director, Aeronautics, NASA GRC Approach:

• Current Limitations: Data collection outpaces human processing.

Autonomous processing covers limited modalities.

• Novelties in Approach: Text-based multi-modal summarization.

Combination of Machine Learning and logic based AI. University Partners

• University of Dayton Research Institute: Dr. Nilesh Powar
• Ohio State University: Dr. Alper Yilmaz and Dr. Charles Toth

Industry Partners

• 361 Interactive LLC: Mike McCloskey
• GreyCliff Industries, (GCI): Dr. Ronald Storm

Economic Impact

• Creating a Autonomy driven workforce across OH (5 graduates in 2

years at UD and OSU)  trained workforce for AFRL + NASA

• Ohio jobs through 361 Interactive (3)
• Federal follow on funding: ALOBO ~$15M (Air Launched Off-Board

Operations), STAT BAA (~950M) , ACT3, Technical Challenge –C2: UAS command and Control for NASA GRC Impact on Industry Partners

• Team holds wide range of IP and is leader in the technology area

including SBIR data rights, and peer reviewed journal publications Budget and Schedule:

• Requested Budget Total: [$2M] (UDRI-1.025M, OSU-$400K, 361

Interactive -$500K, GCI - $75K )

• Year 1 (July 2018 – December 2018): [$600K], Year 2 (January 2019 –

December 2019):[$1.4M]

• Period of Performance: 18 months

Milestones and Deliverables:

• Perception Deep Learning Engine Development
• Data Landscape (Interface) Development
• Cognitive Engine Development
• Demonstration System Implementation
• Deliverable: Prototype system assessed by increase in analyst efficiency

Risks and Mitigation:

• Speed of algorithms must be sufficient for AFRL and NASA

applications – leverage hardware acceleration expertise at UDRI

327

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Technical Concept & Approach Project Requirement, Federal Alignment, Sponsoring Organization (s) Team & Economic Impact For State of Ohio Budget, Schedules, Deliverables, & Risks

PAR Government Systems Corporation – Disaster Ops Management Extension (DOME)

• Universal Translator for UAS/PAV C2 integration
• Automated integration of video, text, GIS, and imagery
• Combining as a UAS-centric disaster ops management

solution.

• Supports OFRN Round III requirements put forward by

AFRL, NASIC, and Ohio National Guard

• Sponsorship by AFRL/RH, NASIC, Ohio National Guard and

Ohio Emergency Mgmt Agency (OEMA)

• Impact on federal stakeholders mission.
• Greatly enhanced capability to integrate disparate

UASs into a single C4ISR architecture

• Tactical situational awareness that integrates video,

text, GIS, and imagery

• Strong alignment with OEMA incident management

needs

• PAR Government Systems Corp.; Wright State University

(Kno.e.sis Center); University of Findlay (All Hazards Training Center)

• PAR Government will leverage technology into new expansion

tasks on current AFRL and Army/NVESD contracts (6 new FTEs)

• PAR Government will team with WSU on new bids (BAAs) in

C4ISR and PED analytics (3 new FTEs)

• Commercialization through software-as-a-service tie-in to

existing PAR, WSU, and U Findlay spinout businesses focused on disaster and emergency response needs of non- DOD customers (6 new FTEs)

• Requested Budget Total: $1.99 M
• $1.19 M – PAR
• $500 K – WSU
• $300 K – Findlay
• CY 2018 (Jul-Dec): $270 K
• CY 2019 (Jan-Dec): $1.7 M
• Period of Performance: [18 months]
• Phase 1 – 12 months
• Phase 2 – 12 months (6 month overlap with Ph 1)
• Milestones: Demo Reqt’s review; design reviews; demos
• Deliverables: Demos for AOI #2 and #4; Software; Reports
• Technical risks: Demo integration

333

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Summary

• OFRN going forward will continue to:
• Work to secure $3M of additional funds to complete funding of Round 3 Projects.
• Expanding Ohio commercialization by creating 6 new companies over past 2 years.
• Leverage the seed funding provided by the State of Ohio to expand our federal R&D

portfolio and to integrate key technical assets across the state.

• Submitted 3 Statewide Bids over last two months under the STAT BAA.
• Work actively with our federal partners Statewide to address pressing

requirements to pursue new funding sources.

• Use its projects and activities to train the next generation of systems engineers and

thinkers to meet emerging government and industry workforce needs.

• Use the Challenge Problems to address the emerging industry requirements enabling

systems and subsystems.

• Evolve our collaborative research activities with the State’s R&D universities and

businesses.

• Enhance our efforts to brand the State of Ohio as a key enabler of emerging systems

and technologies -- the source of innovative systems solutions.

• Secure future funding from the State (FY20-21 budget) and Federal FY19 & FY20 for

OFRN.