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Submissions from 2026
Effects of Niobium on the Mechanical and Oxidation Properties of Additively Manufactured Tungsten, Alexander LeSieur, Cayla Eckley, and Ryan A. Kemnitz
A Comprehensive Analysis of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Structures Applied to Additively Manufactured Conformal Heat Exchangers for High-Speed Applications, Nathan Lewan, Mitch Wolff, Abdeel J. Roman, Zachary J. Carner, John S. Brewer, and Tanner S. Barber
Optimizing Warranty Policies for Remanufactured Products: When Should They Be Longer, Shorter, or Identical to New Product Warranties?, Kunpeng Li and Jun-Yeon Lee
Remediating and reducing the environmental impact of fire suppression systems contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Perspectives on current guidelines, Matthew L. Magnuson, Trevor Sleight, and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Revisiting “Environmental Effects”: Directions for Multidisciplinary Investigations of Air Quality and Psychopathology, Erika M. Manczak, Andrew Hoisington, Forrest Lacey, Megan Waxman, Katherine Czech, Summer Millwood, Sydney Yi, Megan Proctor, Rebecca Buchholz, Rajesh Kumar, and Olga Wilhelmi
Development of Robust Ratio Linear Fitting Method of Temperature and Emissivity Separation for High-Temperature Data, Mitchell Manzardo, Michael L. Dexter, Shannon R. Young, John Bowlan, and Anthony L. Franz
Understanding Unity’s ECS Architecture, Brett Martin, Douglas D. Hodson, and Laurence D. Merkle
Solar Storm Effects on Quantum Communication Network Performance, Brett M. Martin, Michael K. Seery, Douglas D. Hodson, Torrey J. Wagner, Michael R. Grimaila, Anne Marie Richards, and Wayne McKenzie
Correlations between Z-Tilt, G-Tilt, and Centroid Motion, Jack E. McCrae, Santasri Bose-Pillai, and Steven T. Fiorino
Karhunen-Loève Modes for Coherent Arrays, Jack E. McCrae, Santasri R. Bose-Pillai, and Steven T. Fiorino
Correlations Between G-tilt, Z-tilt, Centroid Motion, and Quad-cell Measurements, Jack E. McCrae, Julianna Sommer, Santasri R. Bose-Pillai, Milo W. Hyde IV, and Steven T. Fiorino
Validating event-based vision sensor characterization methods through simulation, Brian J. McReynolds, Rui Graca, Tobi Delbruck, and Peter McMahon-Crabtree
Advanced EVS Pixel Modeling to Improve Dim RSO Detection up to 2.9 × and Enable Accurate Photometric Reconstruction for SDA, Brian McReynolds, Rachel Oliver, Zachry Theis, Peter McMahon-Crabtree, Michal Zolnowski, and Tobi Delbruck
Supersonic Film Cooling on a Flat Plate, Nicholas V. Medeiros, Marc D. Polanka, and James L. Rutledge
Parameterisation of Hematopoietic Acute Radiation Syndrome Mortality Based on Models of Neutrophil Kinetics, Zachary P. Meisel and Scott Lorette
The Use of Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Dielectric Strength of Gases, Matthew Mileski, Paul W. Groth, Timothy S. Wolfe, and Adib J. Samin
Applying a Systems Modeling Language Extension to Human– AI Team Design, Michael E. Miller and Michael C. Todd
Stark broadening of the rubidium 4D-nF spectral lines, Jordan Mindrup, Dillon Nice, Timothy M. True, Christopher A. Rice, Jonathan W. Evans, Daniel J. Emmons II, David E. Weeks, and Glen P. Perram
Pixelated plastic scintillator array manufacturing using fast-, photo-curable resin, C. J. Moore, Juan J. Manfredi, Michael T. Febbraro, D. Rustrom, A. Decker, Ryan A. Kemnitz, T. J. Ruland, and Paul A. Hausladen
Analysis of the Use of Module Lattice Key-Encapsulation Mechanism in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Survey, Fábio Moreira Dos Santos, Mark G. Reith, and Daniel Koranek
Empirical suppression of line broadening and self-reversal for isotopic analysis of lithium samples using surface-enhanced LIBS, Travis L. Morris and Anil K. Patnaik
The Effects of Surface Texturing on the Oxidation of Metals Analyzed through Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations, Mark Mysonhimer and Adib J. Samin
An Atmospheric Optical Turbulence Structure Parameter Measurements System Based on Direct RI Sensing Using High-Resolution Fiber-Optic Sensors, Matej Njegovec, Simon Pevec, Vedran Budinski, Boris Macuh, Melissa K. Beason, and Denis Onlagic
Cislunar space and lunar surface surveillance capabilities of butterfly orbits using the CR3BP, Contessa G. Norris and Robert A. Bettinger
Preliminary investigation of potential cislunar disposal trajectories for the southern butterfly orbit family, Contessa G. Norris and Robert A. Bettinger