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Synthetic scenario-based training of Navy personnel in the use of Navy SIGINT/IO systems has helped to reduce training costs, and it has enabled the personnel to be trained in an environment that sufficiently approximates real-world situations that could not otherwise be accomplished within the classroom. However, scenario development is highly complex and involves a great deal of human effort and ...

The Department of the Navy has a need for the development of an additive manufacturing (AM) process for key vacuum electronic device components to meet on-demand, flexible, and affordable manufacturing requirements. The developed manufacturing method has a potential to reduce cost of vacuum electronics by as much as 70% as well as simplify and hence expedite production process of these devices by ...

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of using an innovative, durable, low friction, and non-toxic solid lubricant coating for foil air bearings for air cycle machines (ACM). Acrees coating provides superior wear characteristics at all temperatures and provides a substantial improvement over polyimide type coatings that are currently used on ACMs. The coating consists of tw ...

In this proposed SBIR program, IBC Materials & Technologies, in conjunction with our industry partner Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (MSI) and Texas A&M University, will leverage our knowledge and experience in the domain of industrial metallic coatings to develop a metallurgical coating solution for the Air Foil Bearing. IBC has deep expertise in a variety of industrial coating processes including mu ...

The Phase II STTR technical objective will update, expand, and validate the excellent results achieved in the Phase I"Analysis and Modeling of Foreign Object Damage (FOD) in Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC"s)"program. The program will evaluate CMC component life capability before and after impact in a realistic operating environment. Predictions will be validated using new experimental impact resul ...

High speed projectile launch decisions always tend toward"clear sky"days because no capability has existed to assess high speed flight risk due to weather in either design or operations. Since clear sky conditions occur about 50% of the time, the risk of mission failure is unknown half of the time when clouds are present. Under a Navy Phase I STTR, CFD Research Corporation and the University of Al ...

The program will develop a prototype Autonomous Helicopter Rugged Operations Controller (AHROC) supporting autonomous approach, landing, takeoff, departure and navigation in sloped, rugged terrain in a GPS denied environment. The AHROC system utilizes dual color camera inputs. Passive image processing functions provide: 1) Aircraft localization using a reference digital elevation map, 2) The gener ...

Adhesive bonds are increasingly finding their applications in aerospace and automotive structures. The adhesive bonding gets rid of fasteners, thus reducing stress concentrations and damage initiation sites. In addition, elimination of fasteners results in significant weight savings. In order to use adhesive bonding with confidence and certify integrity of bonded structures, certain issues regardi ...

During Phase I and Phase II, M4 Engineering, Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories have created a unique bonded joint analysis methodology and associated software. During Phase II.5, the developed techniques will be further enhanced and a fully functional commercial analysis code (SIMULIA/Abaqus) plug-in will be created. The software plug-in will make the advanced technology accessible to all leve ...

M4 Engineering, Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories propose to create a unique bonded joint analysis and design software tool. Surrogate traction-separation models will be created that efficiently capture the behavior that occurs for real bonded joints. Mixed mode loading, including compressive normal tractions and relative displacements will be captured and used in an extended cohesive zone ele ...