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COVID 19 has created a cosmic shift in the way we interact and conduct business.  To support the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) the Air Force along with the AAM Supply Chain must rapidly adapt to maintain and to make further technological advances in this new world.      Agility Prime is going to open vastly new logisitics options and issues.  The flying orbs are being  built to be "plug and ...

The objective of the proposed Phase-I effort proposed by Spectral Energies LLC is to develop a versatile hyperspectral sensor system capable of performing >100 kHz in situ temperature and species concentration measurements of CO, CO2 and H2O in rotating detonation engines (RDEs) for gas temperatures up to 3000 K and gas pressures up to 50 bar. Development will include both the laser system as well ...

Spectral Energies and the University of Notre Dame is developing a new class of point-wise sensors for high-enthalpy conditions that rely on the use of a weakly ionized AC discharge between two electrodes as the main sensing element. The advantages of this approach include a native high bandwidth with a theoretical maximum in excess of 15 MHz and a simple mechanical design that is inherently robus ...

ABSTRACT: Scramjet engines are expected to operate across wide Mach number ranges and typically incorporate isolators to provide sufficient back-pressure margin and prevent unstart. Unfortunately, isolators introduce additional weight and drag, and form multiple shockwave/boundary layer interactions, which degrade the incoming flow. As military requirements become increasingly demanding, an active ...

Scramjet engines are designed to operate across a wide Mach number range and typically incorporate isolator sections to provide sufficient back-pressure margin and prevent unstart. As military requirements become increasingly demanding, an active, closed-loop control system is necessary to maintain engine stability and power output. During Phase I, key components of a scramjet control system were ...

Ultralight Industries Corporation and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are developing an iPhone-sized multifunction RF system for software-defined sensing, communications and electronic warfare effects across a wide bandwidth. Scaling from mini-to-massive, this sys

Ultralight Industries Corporation and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are developing an iPhone-sized multifunction RF system for software-defined sensing, communications and electronic warfare effects across a wide bandwidth. Scaling from mini-to-massive, this sys

Bearings undergo significant wear during microturbine engine operation. Improving bearing life and reducing manufacturing cost is desirable for reliable low-cost systems. The team will use laser powder bed fusion to make a thrust bearing with reduced weig

The proposed technology will meet the Navy need for additive manufacturing processes for copper-based, high power and high frequency electronic structures, with fine tolerances and smooth surfaces. Complex copper-based high frequency electronic structures are conventionally manufactured by welding/brazing together multiple high-purity wrought Cu segments, that were shaped using conventional machin ...

The goal of the Phase I project is to demonstrate the feasibility of an AM process capable of depositing the required optical properties, full densification, and smooth surface finish through modeling the glass AM processing, developing the path planning for printing freeform optics, and evaluating the quality of the printed freeform optics with the proposed FFL . The specific objectives of the pr ...