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Granite Mountain Industries, LLC (DBA Rapid Assault Tools (RA Tools)), will research the customer support within the US Air Force to design a robot mounted and controlled hydraulic breaching tool to defeat fortified inward swinging doors and other obstacles.  This will be accomplished by adapting their commercially available battery powered pump, develop a self-engaging breaching tool and a modul ...

Bird and wildlife strikes endanger Airmen and aircraft safety. Current Department of the Air Force (DAF) Bird/wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) detection and mitigation measures are highly manual, cost-prohibitive, and limited in their detection capa

Underground water leaks from damaged or ruptured utilities pipes are a highly dangerous, labor-intensive, and operationally disruptive occurrence for Department of the Air Force (DAF) air bases and installations. Identifying these incidents is extremely d

bluShift wants to use our core technologies to develop a launch vehicle system that can be used as a responsive method of quickly launching, assisting, or re-deploying small satellites that are critical for national security or other basic functions that keep America running safely and securely. These small, robust, storable, and nimble launch vehicles will form the bluShift RTSLS fleet (Responsiv ...

nGrand Forks Air Force Base (GFAFB) is a sprawling installation on a 5,773 acre installation with 13 miles of perimeter fence-line. Many of these perimeter areas have limited monitoring capabilities due to a lack of grid power for fixed sensors and cameras. Installing sensors is impractical due to cost and time constraints and the remoteness of these areas.  The squadron deploys teams of Defender ...

Granite Mountain Industries, LLC (DBA Rapid Assault Tools (RA Tools)), will design a self-contained batter powered hydraulic forced entry kit capable of breaching SCIF doors in harsh environments, as well as develop a realistic, reusable training aid to teach USAF personnel how to successfully breach SCIF doors. Out team has a strong track record of building innovative battery powered tools and hy ...

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of advanced materials that use repeated three-dimensional geometric patterns to endow common materials with new, enhanced, and superior material properties. The “meta” in “metamaterials” refers to the geometric pattern, while the “material” can be a metal, polymer, ceramic, etc. Our expertise focuses on the design and production of mechanical metama ...

Granite Mountain Industries, LLC (DBA Rapid Assault Tools (RA Tools)), based in South Portland, Maine, has developed a self-contained battery powered hydraulic forced entry/rescue kit for military, law enforcement and first responders. RA Tools offers its products in the United States and internationally through direct sales and distributors including ADS Inc., Darley Defense, Federal Resources, a ...

Granite Mountain Industries LLC (DBA Rapid Assault Tools), based in Maine, has developed a portable, self-contained forced entry/rescue kit for rescue or breaching operations for military, law enforcement, or fire/first responder use. RA Tools offers the RATOOLS line in the United States and internationally through distributors including Security Pro USA, TacPro Gear, and Federal Resources, along ...

The efficient detection and understanding of clandestine nuclear device testing is critical to the security and credibility of the organizations currently tasked with this important work. At present, the Air Force Tactical Applications Center (AFTAC) and likewise, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) are running methods and algorithms that are out of date. These approaches use a ...