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This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 project will develop a novel methodology to build atomistically-informed chemical kinetics models for oxidation and pyrolysis in particulate filled-rubber composite materials. In Navy operations, these materials are widely used in extreme temperature conditions and oxidizing environments. Accurate prediction of the material properties under th ...

The problem of interest is the development of a physics based model for conducting high-fidelity simulation of afterburning munitions, which are unique in that that they contain solid and/or liquid fuels that continue burning after the initial detonation to raise the temperature, enhance the overpressure, and strengthen secondary shock waves. From the standpoint of first-principles modeling, accur ...

In the Phase I program, we will design an experiment/test article, and test/validate instrumentation and diagnostics, to be used to obtain plasma properties about a hypersonic vehicle having characteristics and features of the RAM-C flight vehicle. The test model is to be installed and tested in the LENS-XX facility (in Phase II) and experimental planning will be supported by detailed numerical si ...

In this project Daniel H. Wagner Associates (DHWA), with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and MARK Resources, Inc. (MRI) as our subcontractors, will develop a lightweight, low-cost Wave Detection, Prediction, and Reaction System (WDPRS) that is designed to reduce the hazard of foundering and/or the violent shocks, pitches, and rolls resulting from improper handling of a small craft in elev ...

Autonomous unmanned distributed sensing systems are in the process of revolutionizing undersea military search. The importance of search to military operations is greatest in the environment where detection is the most difficult, i.e. undersea operations. Now distributed sensing systems promise an order of magnitude reduction in search times for enemy undersea targets. In order to realize the pote ...

DPI will be well positioned to deliver a fully functional prototype in Phase II that exceeds the proposed performance goals of: vertical take-off and landing, endurance of 37.5 hours, range of 3750km. The UAS will be powered by a combination of heavy fuel engines and electric auxiliary motors, and will be suited to deployment from a single vehicle (e.g., JLTV), by two operators. This 150 lb vehicl ...

Develop a high power to weight, compact, heavy fuel MCC engine using advanced high strength materials. This new MCC engine design will also offer high durability and high efficiency with an extremely low acoustic and IR signature for use in future small UAVs. The overall objective of this Phase I development program is to develop a JP-5, JP-8 or DS2 MCC engine using advanced high strength to weigh ...

MESH, Inc. has developed a method to take data from multiple fixed site standoff sensors and generate concentration maps using either triangulation or tomography. The programs that MESH has developed will be modified to allow standoff from moving platforms to be used in the data merging process. A simulation suite of tools, also developed by MESH, will be used to set the requirements on the accu ...

Historically, the combat medic has had one of the most important yet life-threatening roles on the battlefield. They must find, assess, treat and extract fellow injured soldiers in extremely hazardous conditions, sometimes with little or no additional support. Because of this, medics and other first responders are often injured or even killed while attending to wounded soldiers. To properly addres ...

Cargo helicopters, such as the Marine Corps CH-47 "Chinook," can lift large payloads and can fly fast to rapidly transport and deploy troops, fly wounded home, or replenish critical supplies. They must do this day and night, in bad weather, and under enemy fire. It is not surprising that of the 750 or so Chinooks delivered to the US Air Force and Army, about 300 (40%) have been lost. Because pilot ...