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Aging military infrastructure is constantly in the need of replacement and upgrades. Competent and qualified domestic producers of these mission vital items are becoming increasingly scarce leading to fewer sources and less competition in the marketplace. To ensure that warfighters are properly equipped to perform their missions it is critical to have a reliable and sustainable supplier base wit ...

To facilitate amphibious assault operations, the Marines need to quickly move amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs) between ships and the shore. However, due to an increased level of sophistication in the anti-ship weapons available to potential adversaries, Navy ships must remain far from shore during assault operations (i.e., many tens of miles). This creates a need for assault vehicles that can ach ...

The Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio (JTRS) is a four-channel, software-programmable radio having up to eight Shop Replaceable Units (SRUs) that determine the functionality of the unit. The SRUs consist of electronics cards mounted in a sealed structure and secured in the chassis using standard wedge locks. Currently, the available heat rejection from the ...

Electrical systems are being designed with ever increasing power densities, particularly future radar and electronic warfare systems built with Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide Monolithic Integrated Circuits (GaN MMICs). Today’s GaN MMICs use solid metal, low-coefficient of thermal expansion heat spreaders (e.g., Copper-Tungsten). But solid-state heat spreaders cannot meet the size, weight, po ...

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) require robust, hermetic seals that can prevent both fuel leakage and direct mixing of fuel and air- The seal materials should be electrical insulators and should be chemically and mechanically stable in high temperature reactive environments (e-g-, moist reducing and/or oxidizing conditions)- The seals should exhibit no deleterious interfacial reactions with other c ...

Actionable understanding of watershed and ecosystem behavior is required for a wide spectrum of societal and engineering needs by both government entities and commercial entities- These needs include, for example, water resource management, precision agriculture and hydropower- Such actionable understanding requires the ability to numerically model various coupled processes and associated reaction ...

Actionable understanding of watershed and ecosystem behavior is required for a wide spectrum of societal and engineering needs by both government entities and commercial entities- These needs include, for example, water resource management, precision agriculture and hydropower- Such actionable understanding requires the ability to numerically model various coupled processes and associated reaction ...

By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in places with severe water scarcity and two-thirds of the global population will encounter some degree of water stress. If warming continues at the current pace, by 2030 half of the world’s population will experience severe water stress (Runte 2016). The demands are strong; the restraints, on the other hand, come from (1) high capital investment for eq ...

Next-generation aircraft thermal management systems require advanced compact, lightweight condensers to reduce the overall size and mass of high-capacity vapor compression systems. To this end, Creare proposes to develop an ultra-compact, lamination-stack condenser with built-in air flow headers to substantially reduce the overall condenser assembly size and mass. The condenser has a unique config ...

In the Phases I and II of this SBIR project, a software product was developed, delivered and deployed at the Hill AFB CT facility for highly resolving computed tomography of aerospace components.The project was focused upon speed of execution using high-performance computer architectures.In this commercialization readiness program, the technology will be advanced to at least TRL 6 by the following ...