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ABSTRACT:Knobley Technical Associates Phase Il Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Technologies for Tactical Missiles program includes design, analysis, development and testing efforts to define and mitigate technical and operational challengesto be investigated and resolved for successful maturation ofthe performance enhancing burn-rate augment highly loaded propellant grain technology for next generatio ...

Touchstone proposes to build on past thermal protection system (TPS) efforts and develop an innovative lightweight and low-cost system that provides protection from lightning strikes as well as from heat and atmospheric debris. This will be accomplished by utilizing a lightweight carbon foam (CFOAM) as the foundational material and varying the properties of the foam through choice of precursor an ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposal will demonstrate the feasibility of an ultra-low power radio frequency (RF) field sensor based on novel magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) technology. The sensor will be comprised of an MTJ sensing element that, when placed in a component or system, will monitor for perturbations in the ambient RF field profile during various stages of operatio ...

ABSTRACT:Historically, including weather advice within on-going deliberations and planning has relied largely on a time consuming process of disconnected mental fusion of various sources from different systems to gain a shared understanding of the natural battlespace. The application of weather advice on a near real-time basis has been largely ignored except for very specific missions and location ...

ABSTRACT:Minnesota Wire proposes to research and develop lightweight aerospace electrical conductors for electrical cables utilizing CNT, conductive metal coatings, and with applicable processes for chemically and mechanically fabricating these components. Substitution of legacy metals with these composite conductors will reduce weight and possibly reduce failure related to exposure, stress, strai ...

ABSTRACT:This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project, Modeling Tools for the Machining of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs), will develop and demonstrate the feasibility of physics-based modeling tools applied to the machining of ceramic matrix composites (CMC) the Air Force needs to machine critical CMC turbine components faster, more accurately, and with lower cost. At the program con ...

Materials behavior is often dominated by highly localized phenomena, and the ability to probe those properties for engineering devices is critical. Often these devices are operating in environments with large differences in temperature and pressure: from the high vacuum and cold of space to the high temperature and high pressure inside a deep water oil well. Here, a transducer capable of measuring ...

This Phase I SBIR project addresses the need for an instrument to measure the chemical composition of size-classified ambient aerosols in real time. In particular, this instrument will require minimal user interaction and be adaptable to airborne measurements. The proposed measurements would help us understand how aerosol particles are processed in the atmosphere by chemical reactions and by cloud ...

The nBeacon system will push localized, timely, relevant NOAA data products to public users’ smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices in a convenient, unobtrusive, accessible, easily understandable format. In essence, the nBeacon system will provide a new distribution channel for NOAA data products and services to the general public.

Health Delivery Organizations, including the Military Health System, are increasingly using networked medical devices to benefit from improved information accuracy, lowered costs, and improved patient outcomes. These benefits, however, are threatened by the security risks posed by the interactions between the networked devices, and their connection to IT systems which are at risk of cyber attack. ...