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IsoTruss Structures, Inc., proposes to design, analyze, manufacture, and test the IsoTruss technology utilizing various glass fibers and resin matrix combinations. Structural members employing the IsoTruss technology would be significantly lighter and lower cost versus all current composite structural technologies. Based on ISI's experience with tall, narrow, multiple-sectioned carbon fiber str ...

The future military communication, sensing and electronic warfare systems such as the proposed national missile defense (NMD) system require increasing functionality and performance endurance in harsh space environments. There is a persistent need for reliable tunable filters with a wide bandwidth of operation. In response to this need, EMAG Technologies in collaboration with Purdue University pro ...

This proposal describes a Portable Virtual Collaborative Maintenance System (PVCMS) that can support maintenance personnel in austere locations. Efficient communications between personnel is especially important when maintaining the complex machinery currently used by the military. In addition to technical documents and schematics, technicians frequently need support from other maintainers that ha ...

The objectives of the proposed effort are to demonstrate the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a design tool for reducing engine development time and cost, to reduce fuel nozzle-combustor test requirements, and to demonstrate the capability of CFD to accelerate the incorporation of promising, actively controlled fuel nozzles and combustors into aircraft engines. These overall objectives ...

The EPA has imposed a maximum contaminant level for arsenic at 10 ppb, which poses a tough standard for a significant number of the nation's community drinking water systems. One major issue relates to how the utility knows when the filtration media has saturated with the removed arsenic and needs regeneration or replacement. The current method of monitoring the filtration system effectiveness i ...

Many items of both commercial, military equipment and infrastructure require materials with high tensile properties combined with resistance to corrosive environments and other environmental factors. Today these applications are typically made in steel with the attendant problems of corrosion protection, monitoring and maintenance. Composite materials have the potential to eliminate the corrosio ...

Satellite data interfaces require optoelectronics for lower power, higher speed and radiation-hard components. The highest speed function is the transponder consisting of the photoreceiver ( detector , TIA and decision circuit), the clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit consisting of a phase locked loop incorporating a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a deserializer circuit. When implemente ...

This DOD Air Force Phase I SBIR proposal focuses on developing and demonstrating a nanomaterials-based high rate rechargeable battery technology that provides performance, weight and safety advantages for space-based military applications. Specifically, the proposed Li-ion rechargeable battery system is expected to offer a next generation high power energy storage device capable of storing and de ...

Sensors are vital during advanced turbine engine development testing. Sensor data expedite engine development programs and bring new advanced propulsion and ground-power engines to market sooner. Ceramic thermal barrier coating (TBC) on first-stage turbine blades is now a vital component of advanced engines under development for future military aircraft, protecting the underlying metal alloy blade ...

The Air Force requires a system that connects multiple onboard systems and provides a translation mechanism to allow all of them to effectively speak one language. This Intelligent Distributed Decision Management system will be designed to minimize the cognitive load on Decision Makers and Shooters. This system will: 1) Provide a mechanism that can read from and write to multiple hardware and p ...