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Navy operational needs dictate that thermal interface materials (TIMs) have high thermal conductance, high dielectric strength, form non-permanent bonds, and be resilient to vibration and abrasion. Available TIMs each satisfy a portion of these requirements, but not all of them.Glacigen Materials will develop a new class of TIM by creating a novel composite material. This material will be embodied ...

There is a growing need to fabricate visibly-opaque, infrared-transparent, high-optical-quality optics that conform to an aircraft’s outer moldline shape to reduce drag. However, fabrication of such free-form and aspheric infrared (IR) optics has proven challenging. The current fabrication bottleneck is in the speed and precision of measuring the optical figure and transmitted wavefront error fo ...

There is a growing need to fabricate high-optical-quality optics that conform to an aircraft’s outer moldline shape to reduce drag. However, fabrication of such free-form and aspheric optics has proven challenging. The current fabrication bottleneck is in the speed and precision of performing metrology of the optical surfaces because traditional interferometric techniques are not applicable. To ...

The output of this Phase I will be several lighter weight ACV 1.1 potential candidates, these include components within the land and marine propulsion systems (drive shafts and propeller), hull shapes (bow vane and stern/trim flaps) as well as doors, hatches, inlet grill, exhaust ducts and grills. These components will take advantage of the ideal properties that composite has to offer: lightweight ...

PEI is proposing to design and develop a composite frame structure which will serve as the foundation and means for easy assembly and removal of either array sections, modules or individual vertical block staves (VBS). PEI will develop structural technologies for building and installing these large conformal arrays to the exterior hull. PEI technology will be expanded to allow conformal sonar arra ...

PEI will develop a design concept for an Adaptable Universal Composite Canister System (AUCCS) for the VPM. This system will cost- effectively accommodate the variety of Unmanned Systems (UxS) payloads being planned for submarine deployment and provide the required common hosts services and provide shock mitigation. We also believe that the AUCCS will not only lower the costs of launching the vari ...

PEI will development and design a light weight, resistant to corrosion and ice adhesion, water tight and low maintenance VLS Composite Missile Hatch. PEI design will include polymers and nanofibers and materials, will utilize low costs composite manufacturing, design, performance evaluation, and analysis techniques will enable us to develop a cell hatch that will meet all performance requirements. ...

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Not Available This research will result in an expert system that can be used by KSC engineers to facilitate insight responsibilities associated with current and future NASA-KSC projects. System performance data will be analyzed and interpreted using appropriate statist