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The Defense Department is working hard on developing both hypersonic offensive and defensive capabilities. But in the immediate future, one of the most important areas to be developed is increasing the capacity at which such systems can be produced, said Gillian Bussey, director of the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.                Atomic-6 was founded to solve a problem that the ...

This proposal provides a detailed account of our Team’s previous work through the Magnetic Braking and Electric Taxiing Program and provides a pathway for building and testing a brake system that has been designed and developed for the F-35 Lightening II aircraft platform.  Having competed the effort of designing the magnetic braking and electric taxiing system for a commercial Airbus A320, C-1 ...

This proposal provides a detailed account of our Team’s previous work through the Magnetic Braking and Electric Taxiing Program and provides a pathway for building and testing a brake system that has been designed and developed for the F-16 aircraft platform.  Having competed the effort of designing the magnetic braking and electric taxiing system for a commercial Airbus A320, C-17, U-2 in prev ...

There are significant Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) issues with electronics used in Department of Defense (DoD) systems. Nearly all DoD electronic systems are uniquely designed and manufactured for their specific applications using commercially available microcircuits at the time that they were designed. Integrated Circuits (ICs), or microcircuits, have an averag ...

LocatorX offers a broad range of capabilities built on the core of its LXConnect™ Application Server, an open Internet of Things (IoT) platform that encompasses many industry 4.0 concepts. From the digitization of complex, industrial, and material-focused processes often found in manufacturing and supply chain industries, a modern, API-driven interface maximizing interoperability with current an ...

Estes Energetics is standing up domestic production of potassium nitrate, a critical chemical used several different market segments, including the defense industry. In this Phase II effort Estes Energetics will develop a pilot-scale production line that can be modularly expanded to greater potassium nitrate production rates and to other critical nitrates. The Phase II effort will scale up the pro ...

Estes Energetics will demonstrate a versatile two-step process for the extraction and separation of magnesium powder from a variety of ordnance. In the first step, a solvent-free mechanical approach is used to separate the magnesium from binders. Such an approach maximizes the applicability of the method because it doesn’t rely on specific chemical compatibilities between the separation method a ...

Research of chromatographic processing of REE source solutions during Phase I activities provided the foundation for processing REE source materials (acid digestion and caustic bake procedures) and REE separation into high-quality REO materials. The knowledge gained during Phase I will be used to design a larger pilot-scale system capable of processing 100-kg of REE source material per day. Planne ...

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are now one of the major power storage solutions; they are used in portable electronics, electric vehicles and renewable energy storage systems. Also, many weapons now depend on LIBs to power their systems. Unfortunately, the US military is particularly vulnerable to supply shortages of the active components needed for LIBs because virtually all large-scal ...

Since World War 2, normal aircraft braking is achieved through a system of hydraulically activated carbon brakes located on the main wheels of the aircraft. These friction based systems offer limited performance and reduced braking capabilities due to brake fade, overheating, thermal loading issues, and generally higher operational, maintenance, repair and overhaul  costs  over  the  life  cy ...