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The proposed effort will offer defense and commercial aerospace sectors a high fidelity processing environment that can be reconfigured for a variety of airborne mapping and surveillance activities as well as an advanced on-board processor capable of handling ultra wide-band applications and real-time parallel processing.","description":"Remote Sensing Solutions proposes to develop the Network-based Parallel Retrieval Onboard Computing Environment for Sensor Systems (nPROCESS) for deployment on NASA's unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). 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