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Fires in dry bays of military aircraft present a significant hazard that must be addressed with advanced fire suppression systems. The USAF is interested in concepts that do not require power or active sensing of fire for proper operation. ADA Technologies, Inc. has been developing fine water mist fire suppression technology for the past 10 years, and proposes a solution for this problem that inco ...

New missile materials are needed to expand the capability of current air-to-ground missile systems. This expansion of capability dictates the development of lighter weight materials that are capable of short duration exposures to temperatures as high as

Crisis decision-making is difficult and error-prone because it involves time-urgency, physical and emotional stress, chaotic conditions, and poor data availability/quality. This SBIR project will investigate, develop, and deploy a web-based software system (called PolARES) that supports key decisions for crisis management and battlefield applications. This system will produce a revolutionary impr ...

USING TECHNOLOGY NOW IN EXISTENCE AND NOW BEING DEVELOPED IT IS POSSIBLE TO BUILD A HIGH RELIABILITY, CRYOGENIC OXYGEN REFRIGERATOR. THE TEMPERATURE RANGE IN WHICH THE REFRIGERATOR WOULD FUNCTION WOULD BE CONTROLLABLE BETWEEN 70 AND 140 KELVIN. THE BASIS FOR THIS REFRIGERATION CYCLE WOULD BE CERAMIC ELECTROLYTE TECHNOLOGY BY WHICH OXYGEN CAN BE COMPRESSED USING AN ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ACROSS THE CER ...

There is a need to monitor the structural health of aerospace components operating in extreme temperatures ranges (e.g. -60 to +300C) and with high accelerations. Ideally the sensors employed for this task should be passive (i.e. not powered through batteries), permanently placed on the critical components and transmit the relevant data to a remote data processing center wirelessly.  Albido is pr ...

Polymers in space are subjected to various threats including hyperthermal oxygen atoms, UV and VUV photons, and ions.  These threats can degrade the polymer and lead to static charge accumulation.  This Phase II proposal will build on the Phase I work which demonstrated that inorganic films grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) can protect polymers such as Kapton, Teflon and PMMA.  Al2O3 ALD f ...

BOTH ATMOSPHERIC AND HIGH-ALTITUDE NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS WILL PRODUCE MAGNETIC SIGNALS THAT ARE DETECTABLE OVER VERY LARGE DISTANCE. AN UNDERGROUND EXPLOSION WILL ALSO PRODUCE A MAGNETIC SIGNAL, BUT IT IS DETECTABLE AT MUCH SMALLER DISTANCE. THIS IS BECAUSE THE UNDERGROUND FIREBALL IS INERTIALLY TAMPED BY THE MORE DENSE EARTH, AND BECAUSE THE LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE IS STRONGLY ATTENUATED ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THE EFFORT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT A DECOUPLED FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF A PENETRATION EXENT INTO CONCRETE CAN BE USED AS A COST EFFECTIVE EVALUATION TOOL TO ASSIST THE WEAPON DEVELOPER. A PENETRATION CODE SUCH AS SAMPLL OR THE PENCO-3D MODULE OF EVA-3D WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE LOADS ON THE PENETRATOR. THE LOADS THEN WILL BE APPLIED TO THE FINITE ELEMENT MESH AND THE RESPONSE ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ADDRESSES METHODS OF INCREASING THE BLAST HARDNESS OF MOBILE LAUNCH VEHICLES BY THE REDUCTION OF THE DRAG AND LIFT DURING THE DRAG PHASE OF BLAST LOADING. THE WORK WILL DEVELOP MOBILE LAUNCH VEHICLE SECTION PROFILES WHICH REDUCE THE DRAG AND LIFT COEFFICIENTS WITHOUT INCREASING THE DIFFRACTION PHASE BLAST LOADS. THE PROFILES WILL BE DEVELOPED BASED ON EXISTING KNOWLEDGE GLEAN ...