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Breault Research is proud to provide our Navy customer with the technology and tools to design, produce and field a true Twenty First Century warhead. Breault’s Adaptive Multi-Mission Ordnance (AMMO) incorporates state-of-the-art lethality materials and flexible configurations to optimize warhead effectiveness in a smaller form factor. Breault’s unique design and production processes provide t ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are advanced adsorbents with applicability to military and civilian applications including but not limited to chemical biological protection, chemical warfare agent decontamination, toxic industrial chemical remediation, medical oxygen delivery, and energy storage. These materials have been produced in ton-scale quantities and have seen commercial use in the electro ...

As a response to the Navy SBIR Topic N212-126, GHz Optical Underwater Detection Receiver, Alphacore will develop a wide bandwidth, multi-element optical receiver to enable the extraction of both reflectivity and range features of objects in water. This proposed work will integrate advanced compact photo detectors with Alphacore’s innovative high-speed readout technology. The proposed system will ...

This Phase II program addresses the need for more reliable thermal protection systems (TPS) for hypersonic aerial vehicles operating in hypersonic flight environments.    A novel manufacturing process is proposed that allows for controlled porosity structures including layer-to-layer variations that can be tailored for the particular application and material property needs.   In this program, ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...

NP Photonics proposes to develop a compact high-power mid-wave infrared laser system by taking advantage of its substantial capability and experience in mid-wave infrared fibers and fiber lasers. The proposed mid-wave infrared laser system has the advantages of high-efficiency, high power scalability, high beam quality, and broad spectral coverage. In the Phase I program, the feasibility of deve ...

Hydronalix will develop and demonstrate agile, rapid, on-demand domestic manufacturing of low-cost self-propelled rescue can. Based on the advanced domestic manufacturing capabilities developed in a related Phase I and Phase II program for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAS) this program proposes to develop a new low cost self-propelled rescue can.  Current rescue cans are incapable of propelling themsel ...

The US Navy needs an advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) digitizer ASIC for remote sensing of oceans and the atmosphere for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) applications such as distant target ranging from smaller platforms on unmanned air and undersea vehicles. Current specifications of available real-time processing digitizers for profiling LIDARs are constrained by their limited range and ...

Deposit-induced degradation of alloys and ceramic coatings in turbine engines is regarded as one of the core challenges preventing further gains in performance and efficiency. Historically, hot corrosion (HC, i.e., accelerated oxidation) of alloys in the presence of chloride and sulfate deposits has been treated separately from the degradation arising when molten silicate deposits (CMAS)1,2 infi ...

The Navy requires an innovative material solution for new large aperture, wide spectral band head window for High Energy Lasers (HEL).  The head window must be larger than 12 inch in diameter, provide high transmission across a wide spectral band (visible to MWIR), compatible with anti-reflection coatings (ARC) and possess water shedding or hydrophobicity properties. At present, there are no comm ...