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Office Move!!

I hope everyone is enjoying this great weather we’ve been having!!

With the addition of the AAIM Lab, our corporate office has moved into bigger digs. Please note our new address and change your email signature accordingly.

We are now located at:

2970 Presidential Drive, Suite 200 Beavercreek, OH 45324

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In this issue News from Corporate P.2

Kudos P.3

Azimuth Family News P.4

Employee Spotlight P.6

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News from Corporate

Azimuth is excited to announce our initial AAIM Lab contract awards! Two concept

briefings were delivered by Azimuth Senior Scientist Dr. Perry Rice during the AFRL

Quantum Collider Pitch Day event on 15-16 June, resulting in two instantaneous Phase I

STTR (small business/academia collaboration) contract awards. The brain children of

Perry, the AAIM Lab will be working with the University of Arizona on Quantum

Networking and Communication concepts, and with the Air Force Institute of Technology

on Quantum Error Correction Concepts – both projects driven, of course, by AI/ML

technology. These projects are sponsored by AFRL/RI under contract numbers FA8650-

20-P-1719 and FA8650-20-P-1707.

A Phase I is a short-term (less than six month) concept development or demonstration of

feasibility, that, if successful, may lead to a longer-term Phase II (one to two year) product

development effort, or even a final Phase III that would put the product into production.

Be on the lookout for a new and improved Azimuth Employee Referral Program on our intranet site. A notice will go out to everyone when it’s available.

EMPLOYEE REFERRALS

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Robert Cook The site lead for the Defense Legal Services Agency (DLSA) support team, Mr. Robert Cook, was recognized by the

government customer for his persistent “positive attitude and good spirits”, an attribute all the more important and

worthy of recognition in light of Rob and his Team being one of few essential support teams working 100% on-site

during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Mr. Cook has done a wonderful job dealing with day-to-day operational matters and more importantly, pandemic

induced issues that seem to plague his building. His positive attitude is infectious (pun intended) and keeps the whole

Team focused on their mission. Thank you to the entire DLSA Team for their continued support; and, to Mr. Cook, for

leading the team with an upbeat attitude during such a difficult time in the world.

Azimuth is proud to report that two of our employees received praise from our customers this quarter. Receiving feedback like this means a great deal and Azimuth is both fortunate and thankful to have such outstanding employees on its staff.

A special thank you to Robert and Rockney. Your hard work and dedication to our customers and to life are what make Azimuth a great company!

Rockney Nelson Rockney (Rocky) Nelson is a Future Requirements and Capabilities Subject Matter Expert supporting the ISR

Operations Directorate in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD (I&S)). Over

the past 4 years Rocky has become the go-to guy for all things counter UAS in OUSD (I&S). Recently we received a

glowing note about how important Rocky is to the success of their mission from his customer in the Pentagon. In part,

the customer wrote:

Rockney has earned a place of pride in my organization because he can consistently perform at the very highest levels … [he] is able to accomplish difficult tasks that I would not consider assigning to others, by himself, with minimal guidance and absolutely no supervision. He will get the job done right, the first time, ahead of time, every time.

He is the lead for the ISR requirements team [and] the senior of six contractors responsible for identifying warfighter urgent ISR requirements and delivering new capabilities to the battlefield.

Rocky has also been extremely helpful to Azimuth and our business development efforts. He is always vigilant for areas

where the customers need additional help and recommends areas where Azimuth’s expertise, experiences and core

competencies can help customers solve their issues. Most recently, he was a key technical contributor to our recent

OUSDI(I&S) directorate contract win (ISR SME).

Rocky is a retired US Army officer with several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He joined Azimuth in November of 2015

after spending 10 years supporting the Joint Staff J8. He is an integral part of our success and a valued member of the

Azimuth family.

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Dayton

H a n n a h K e m p e l

K a r e n P a s s mo r e

E r i c S c h n e e ma n n

R i c h a r d W a t t e r s

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NEW HIRES

AZIMUTH FAMILY NEWS

Our very own Perry Rice is publishing a book in September by the Institute of

Physics (London). This book introduces the quantum statistical methods used in

quantum physics, pitched at undergraduate students.

Beginning with an introduction on quantum optics and open quantum physics, the

book reviews classical electromagnetism and linear optics, and quantum mechanics,

before moving on to examine two level dynamics, quantum electromagnetic fields,

and two-level atoms coupled to quantized fields. Later chapters discuss coherence

and detection and the density matrix, before ending with quantum trajectory theory

and quasiprobability distributions.

Classroom tested and developed over the course of 30 years, this book is written in a

simplified, tutorial format for better understanding of complex concepts. It is an

essential guide for any students beginning their studies in quantum physics.

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Joshua Melnick

My name is Josh Melnick, I received my BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State and my

MS in Microelectronics from RIT. I joined Azimuth in March 2020, working in AFRL/RXAN

with Dr. Shin Mou as a semiconductor research engineer. We are working on development

of Gallium Oxide as a new semiconducting material for Ultra-Wide Band Gap devices.

Today I’m talking about my 3d printing hobby. I began with FDM printing, followed by resin

3d printing. As I became more involved, I found myself interested in more advanced

methods like metal 3d printing and Generative Design, a cool design tool that I want to

focus on below.

Generative design is an exciting new form of CAD. With the advent of Machine Learning,

Cloud Computing, and 3d Printing we are at a sort of technological schwerpunkt where the

complex and expensive computations can be outsourced to a server and the bizarre, H. R.

Giger like, forms created by the AI of Generative Design, can be made via 3d printing.

Figure 1 below is an example of Generative Design and an experiment I ran to compare two

different methods to 3d print a hangar bracket.

Figure 1, is a wall mounted headphone stand, designed by Generative Design from another person, the black color is 3d

Printed via FDM method and the grey is printed via the Resin method, notice the far smoother form of the grey.

Generative Design works by specifying the direction of forces, gravity, preserve geometries

and obstacle geometries as show in Figure 2. The Fusion 360 algorithms know what

minimum and maximum constraints are necessary to solve for the object. We input a series

of limits such as materials to use and whether to solve for minimum mass or maximize

stiffness and it presents the modeler with an array of possible solutions that it has solved on

the cloud, as shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 2 Left is the AI created solution in Fusion 360, middle is the preserve geometries of the shelf bracket and far right is

the preserve geometries with the obstacle geometries, those are places in the model where we do not want material,

because that is where the wall would be, or screws are used to anchor the part to the wall and shelf.

Figure 3 is an array of solutions that the Fusion 360 software has solved for the shelf bracket, given the constraints of

force, geometries and materials. The design differences are subtle, mostly in the number or thickness of spanners.

Generative Design has amazing potential to reimagine many parts in the Aerospace industry

where weight is of great importance, it can also be a factor in high performance industry such

as racing in Automotive and perhaps even in Architecture.

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