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MZA partnered with the University of Notre Dame proposes to transition the Navys HEFL Beam Director Subsystem (HBDS) for flight testing on the Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory Transonic (AAOL-T) aircraft. We will reconfigure the HBDS integrating structure and aft beam control system to fit the cabin constraints of the AAOL-T aircraft with an aft beam control and scoring bench. Operational functiona ...

Because of the maneuvering capabilities of adversaries’ new hypersonic weapons, defensive missiles must fly in very demanding flight regimes, and intercept maneuvers place stringent requirements on interceptor seeker systems. Successfully completing the hit-to-kill end game requires the seeker can either compensate for or perform despite the thermal and optical effects that cause the seeker to m ...

The Navy has a need to control such extreme power specifications that no suitable switches exist. The Navy power specifications require us to develop a novel medium (probably a pressurized gas or liquid) that can be configured to meet the requirements and control the flow of electrical power directly. Our extensive switching expertise has allowed us to develop a series of novel test fixtures and t ...

The US Navy has identified refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs) and metal additive manufacturing (AM) as enabling technologies to meet performance and sustainability targets for shipboard and aircraft systems. Key challenges include designing RHEAs and optimizing metal AM to achieve desired material properties for Navy propulsion applications. Developing materials and processes via traditional e ...

MZA partnered with the University of Notre Dame proposes to transition our computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of aero-optical disturbances, beam control development, and wave-optics system modeling from rotary wing aircraft to the transonic fligh

Natural rubber is an essential manufacturing material that possesses performance properties that are superior to synthetic rubber for many product applications, including increased tear and tensile strength, as well as superior mechanical performance properties. Aircraft tires, for example, are made of natural rubber; whereas, synthetic rubber (which is less expensive to procure) is used for less ...

MZA partnered with the Michigan Technological University (MTU) proposes development and testing of key components for our unified Atmospheric Refractivity and Turbulence Sensor (ARTS.) Software upgrades will be made to MZA’s DELTA-Sky sensor to enable atmospheric refraction measurements in addition to existing turbulence profiling. The illuminator assembly to implement the ARTS probe laser ...

The proposed approach provides innovative sensor data association algorithms capable of performing correct data association in multi-target tracking environments with one or more sensors. Improved detection/track association is an enabling technology for enhancing tracking and object identification. Data association is a critical precursor to the track filtering process. The data association proce ...

Gray Analytics and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) propose to design a prototype environment for a fully automated Secure Virtual Environment (SVE). The objective of the Gray Analytics methodology is to create an architecture dedicated to persistent cyber testing that utilizes modern technologies/methods and divorces the dependencies between Hardware and Software. The most significant ide ...

Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC (QAM) presents this proposal for the continued development of a W-24Re pintle with an integral lattice that simultaneously exhibits low effective thermal conductivity while maintaining positive structural margins. Our pintle design, which we have shown to be entirely feasible during Phase I, exhibits reduced effective thermal conductivity compared to a solid pin ...