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Combining AED Corp. and its multi-disciplinary team’s extensive and unique heavy fuel engine (HFE) hardware development experience with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) diesel engine components, a concept diesel engine demonstrator (CDED) was designed during Phase I. Configured to facilitate dyno test exploration of power density, heat rejection, and fuel efficiency, the lubrication, cooling, and ...

AED Corp., Digital-Engines, and C-K Engineering will structure and focus their collective expertise to design, optimize technologies, build, test, and develop a 650-hp advanced diesel technologies demonstrator. The work will be supported by AED’s Phase II Advanced Military Diesel Engine (AMDE) program. During Phase I this team of experts will incorporate AMDE design features, specifications, ...

We propose to construct and test a prototype system capable of non-invasively probing the characteristics of material properties using acoustical waves through thermal conversion of a remote laser pulse. The advantages of proposed system as an inspection and identification technique are: 1) Non-contact: Sensor does not require contact with container 2) Stand-off: Sensor could be located many meter ...

This proposal addresses the requirement to develop an ultra-compact, high-performance, passively Q-switched short pulse microchip laser that is appropriate for use in a military system environment. We plan to achieve the program goals through specific research paths and perform critical experiments that will demonstrate the effectiveness of the improvements in Phase I. In addition, to these design ...

ConjuGon has developed a fundamentally new antibacterial technology that is able to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The technology uses harmless bacteria to transfer DNA into targeted, pathogenic bacteria. This DNA is expressed in the target to quickly kill them. We have developed a therapeutic based on this technology that can effectively kill Gram negative bacterial pathogens. In Phase 1 ...

Protecting critical information assets requires more than a best effort, it requires proof that the assets are protected. Proof requires formal analysis relying on solid foundations of mathematical analysis. However, field operators not trained in formal methods are responsible for managing the dynamic enterprise wide systems and ensuring the policy is correct. An integrated system is required ...

Esker Technologies, LLC (Milwaukee, WI) in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Space Science Engineer Center is proposing to develop a low-power, low-loss, robust, radiation hardened power and data handling system for use in satellite systems. This innovation is based on Esker’s proprietary ZeroWire technology. During phase I, we will adapt the ZeroWire power line communication syste ...

Friction Stir Processing (FSP) is an emerging technology that can be used to pre or post-process a range of materials, including aluminum, to locally modify material properties. It is known that FSP can be used to enhance material properties for improved superplastic forming (SPF) behavior of aluminum. This can potentially allow for dramatic cost reductions of SPF and aluminum fabrications, all ...

The coating system currently used on U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft is a two-coat system consisting of a chromated epoxy primer per MIL-PRF-23377 ("23377 primer") underneath a urethane topcoat per MIL-PRF-85285 ("85285 topcoat"). The development of a multi-functional coating with advanced performance properties is critical to achieving a single step corrosion inhibiting topcoat to replace the c ...

The objective of Phase I project is to demonstrate the feasability to manufacture a liquefied powder coating that will meet Air Force specification requirements. Utilizing a new innovative technology will allow a powder coating to be liquefied and atomized as it comes out a spray device and applied to a substrate of any type. This applied liquefied coating can be dried instantly or selectively wi ...