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Automated ICBM wall thickness measurements
SBC: INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MACHINES CORPORATION Topic: AF181009The degree of corrosion for steel wall enclosures, buildings, tanks, and pipes can be inferred by measuring the thickness of the steel .Standard practice is for inspectors to use hand-held ultrasonic instruments that require the application of a couplant for acceptable measurements.This practice is very slow and laborious.For silos, an autonomous wall climbing system is proposed that uses an EMAT ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Compact Sub-mm Wave Oscillator for THz Receiver
SBC: HYPRES INC Topic: AF181004In this SBIR Phase I, HYPRES and University of California Riverside will demonstrate the feasibility of low cost THz oscillators for sub-mm wave receivers utilizing high temperature superconducting (HTS) Josephson junctions fabricated using direct-write helium focused ion beam (FIB). This oscillator that can be easily integrated with on-chip detector with noise temperature ultimately limited only ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Corrosion Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) in Confined Access Areas
SBC: INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MACHINES CORPORATION Topic: AF181045NDE corrosion monitoring of steel vessels, tanks, walls, and pipes involve steel thickness measurements, often with hand-held ultrasonic instruments that require the application of a couplant material, that isslow and labor intensive.For this confined space application,IEM proposes a Rapid Corrosion Inspector (RCI) that uses EMAT sensor technology with a build in machine vision camera system to au ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Structural Nuclear Effect Mitigation of Composite Aeroshells for Munitions for Air Platforms and Cruise Missile Systems
SBC: Conductive Composites Company, L.L.C. Topic: AF181048Next generation munition systems must be capable of mitigating a multitude of threats including ionizing nuclear radiation (i.e. X-ray, gamma, and neutron), electromagnetic threats, high-temperature environments, and other countermeasures such as high-power microwave (HPM). Conductive Composites Company (CCC) has a unique understanding of the problem and has spent the past three decades developing ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Thermographic NDE of Bond Interface Integrity in Thermal Spray Coating
SBC: THERMAL WAVE IMAGING INC Topic: AF181049In Phase I of this SBIR project, we will determine the feasibility of a novel approach to active thermography for quantitative NDE of both thermal and cold spray coatings used in manufacture, maintenance and repair of hot section components. Our approach, Active Interleaved Thermography (AIT) builds on our extensive experience in NDE of Aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) TBCs, and leverage ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Thermal Spray Coatings Using Ultra-High Frequency Micro-Induction Inspection Technology
SBC: GRID LOGIC INCORPORATED Topic: AF181049The U.S. Air Force needs to non-destructively and easily inspect thermal spray metallic and ceramic thermal spray coatings on critical surfaces of gas turbines. Current methods fail to adequately detect sub-surface and interfacial defects, and are cumbersome to use, particularly with conformal geometries.Issues exist with capturing accurate measurements over a range of coating and substrate materi ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
High Durability, Light Weight Bearings for Small Turbine Engines
SBC: MOHAWK INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC. Topic: AF181035This proposed effort leverages MiTis DoD and commercial projects that directly address high performance, long life and low-cost, compliant foil bearing technologies for small gas turbine engines.The overall objective of this effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing compliant foil bearings that are suitable to high-speed, oil-free and gas turbine engines in the 200 lb thrust/200 SHP o ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Innovative Turbine Engine Propulsion Solutions for Class 3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
SBC: MOHAWK INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC. Topic: AF181033This proposed effort leverages MiTis DoD and commercial projects that directly address high efficiency, low-cost, small gas turbine engines.The overall objective of this effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a high-speed, oil-free and novel 50 SHP recuperated turboshaft engine.To achieve this overall objective MiTi will investigate different engine configurations that integrate it ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Direct Injection Systems for Small UAV Engines
SBC: BAKER ENGINEERING, LLC Topic: AF181032Baker Engineering Inc. (BEI) will research the use of the CI Fuel Injection System to fulfill the need for heavy fuel delivery in 2-50 Hp compression ignition engines for UAS/UGS applications.Research will focus specifically on the high pressure heavy fuel injector.Under this Phase I, alternate methods of actuation will be researched with the goal of reducing spark-knock while increasing performan ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force -
Development of Low-Temperature Copper Nanoinks for Flexible Electronics Manufacturing
SBC: FLEXSURFACE INC Topic: AF181059This Phase-I proposal addresses the need specified in Air Force 18.1 under the Topic Index of AF181-059 Low temperature copper inks for low-cost flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing.In contrast to the current use of silver inks which is high cost and often requires photonic or high-temperature sintering, the electronics developed around copper feature low cost and high conductivity but presen ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseAir Force