February 19, 2019 – IFT collaborator, Professor Yu Chen’s paper co-authored with IFT entitled “Exploration of blockchain-enabled decentralized capability-based access control strategy for space situation awareness” published in Optical Engineering
March 10, 2019Uncategorized

This paper in Optical Engineering regards space situation awareness (SSA) includes tracking of active and inactive resident space objects

February 18, 2019 – Prof. Yoohwan Kim of UNLV presented “Achieving High Performance for HAIPE-Encrypted TCP Traffic in a Satellite Communication Environment” at IFT’s 2019 Colloquium
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Prof. Kim teaches blockchain at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Yoohwan Kim is an Associate Professor in the

February 3-7, 2019 – IFT attended SPIE Photonic West at San Francisco, CA and presented a poster “Decentralized autonomous imaging data processing using blockchain”
March 10, 2019Uncategorized

IFT attended SPIE Photonic West. More than 23,000 people attended the premier event for the photonics and laser industries.

January 22, 2019 – IFT was awarded an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract “Artificial Intelligent Based Tool Chain Solution for Free Space Optical (FSO) Communication Propagation Modelling”
March 10, 2019Uncategorized

IFT was awarded an SBIR Phase I Air Force contract. The objective of this project is to provide analysis

January 21, 2019 – IFT paper “Diffusion-based cooperative space object tracking” was published at Optical Engineering
March 10, 2019Uncategorized

In this paper IFT proposes the diffusion-based enhanced covariance intersection cooperative space object tracking (DeCiSpOT) filter. The main advantage

Dr. Zhang at IFT's 2018 Colloquium
December 19, 2018 – Prof. Yimin Zhang from Temple University presented an overview of his work at IFT’s 2018 colloquium
March 10, 2019Uncategorized

Dr. Zhang introduced his work on signal processing for radar and communication. Dr. Zhang’s research interests are in the

Dr. Chen at IFT's 2018 Colloquium
December 17, 2018 – Prof. Biao Chen of Syracuse University presented “RF Exploitation for Situational Awareness” at IFT’s 2018 colloquium
March 9, 2019Uncategorized

Dr. Chen’s research interests include communication and information theory for multi-user networks, signal processing with applications to communications and

December 12, 2018 – IFT was awarded an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract regarding “A Smart Satellite AGC Loop for Frequency Hopping System with Anti-jamming Capability” 
March 9, 2019Uncategorized

IFT was awarded an SBIR Phase I Air Force contract. This work regards the characterizaton of satellite communication signals’

December 12, 2018 – IFT was awarded an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract “TCP-GEN Framework to Achieve High Performance for HAIPE-Encrypted Satellite Communication Systems” 
March 9, 2019Uncategorized

IFT was awarded an SBIR Phase I Air Force contract. The objective of this work is to develop a

WISEE 2018
December 11-13, 2018 – IFT presented two technical talks at the second Space Combat Cloud workshop, which is part of the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2018) in Huntsville, AL
March 9, 2019Uncategorized

IFT presented “Channel Bonding Concepts for Global Network Access Terminal” and “Tool-Chain Based MS&A Tools with Constellation Scenario Modeling for

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