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The MK-48 torpedo requires a temporary crossover power supply until main engine activation and alternator power becomes available. Due to the high cost and poor availability of presently used thermal batteries, a suitable replacement power source using innovative energy storage concepts is desired. Creare proposes to develop an innovative high density power source based on a nanophosphate lithium- ...

The team proposes to leverage their expertise to develop an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant of Area-Is Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated Unmanned System (ALTIUS). ALTIUS, meaning higher in Latin, represents a paradigm shift in the performance of small, tube-launched unmanned aircraft. Core features and capabilities of the ALTIUS-ASW will include: A highly efficient, lightweight, composite airfram ...

The objectives of the Phase II effort are to demonstrate the safety of the developed obscurant device for use in US Navy aircraft as an airborne expendable countermeasure, to optimize performance and to make the obscurant device fully compatible with existing Navy countermeasure dispensing systems.

This is a Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00014-11-C-0400. The proposed research deals with production of oxygen for use by air independent solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) in unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). Oxygen is produced via thermal decomposition of an aqueous lithium chlorate solution using waste heat from the SOFC. Efforts include demonstration of oxygen produ ...

The Navy and USMC desire innovative technology solutions to upgrade its electrical energy conversion capabilities in order to reduce volume, weight, and cost for efficiently executing land- and sea-based operations. Global Technology Connection, Inc. (GTC) in collaboration with its university and industrial partners, established the feasibility of developing a high power density, high efficiency u ...

Augmentor stability is critical to the operational performance of military aircraft that rely on gas turbine propulsion. Compared to early augmentor designs, the distance between the point of fuel injection and the flameholder has become progressively shorter in modern augmentors. These so called close-coupled designs help avoid autoignition issues associated with higher augmentor inlet temperatur ...

Military personnel must be protected from diseases transmitted by ticks and fleas, including Lyme disease. Effective surveillance of tick and flea vectors is vital to determine the population present, whether they are carrying disease, and whether control campaigns are working. Unfortunately, current surveillance tools are ineffective. In Phase I TDA designed, prototyped, and tested a novel ti ...

The single-crystal (SC) structure of modern jet engine turbine blades provides excellent resistance to high-temperature creep, allowing tight tolerances to be maintained over the life of the superalloy part. However, the turbine blade geometry includes complicated features that can promote the growth of discrete recrystallized grains that lower the parts creep resistance and may lead to catastroph ...

Carrier aviation is dependent on the ability to recover aircraft expeditiously and safely aboard ship. The system that arrests the aircraft, the Arresting Gear system, utilizes slippers or bearing materials between moving components. A major shortcoming of the current slipper material is its swelling when exposed to ethylene glycol, which causes clearance issues in the operating equipment, resulti ...

Heureka and Lockheed Martin will develop an AI-based approach to replicate human change request analysis. The approach utilizes state-of-the-art knowledge engineering to elicit expert tacit rules from past CRs. To replicate current processes, we will build and train models which replicate each product area's reasoning. This has several benefits. First, it emulates current human based processes (pr ...