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ABSTRACT: Many turbomachinery applications have achieved improved availability, reliability and cost savings by incorporating health monitoring systems to determine the mechanical condition of key components in near real time. The goals of any health monitoring system are to ensure reliability by avoiding unplanned maintenance, to reduce operating costs by providing the information needed to plan ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force spends $4.5 billion annually on aircraft maintenance related to corrosion.The source of this corrosion frequently is airborne chlorides that settle on metal parts and sensitive avionics and then absorb moisture from the air to create an electrolyte that promotes galvanic corrosion.The proposed work will design, fabricate and test a Corrosion Mitigation System (CMS) that sup ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of the effort is the development of a Femtosecond Laser Electronic Excitation Tagging (FLEET) system and data analysis tools for the measurement of transport parameters in nitrogen and air ground test facilities without seeding the flow with either particles or with foreign gases.  The effort follows Phase I accomplishments, wherein a transportable FLEET laser system with ...

ABSTRACT: Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM) along with Columbia University propose to develop a simulation tool for modeling mixing process of multi-particle composite systems and generating the ultimate microstructure. A combined theoretical, numerical, and experimental approach will be developed to create a high fidelity software product with a reduced order modeling capability for an ...

This proposal develops a new method to accurately identify counterfeit electronic parts ranging from passive components to advanced microprocessors and full circuit boards.The method uses an intrinsic material security approach coupled with a physically uncloneable function (PUF) that is not added to the device fabrication protocol.The hyperspectral method combines transient dielectric and IR emis ...

ABSTRACT: Design and develop a rechargeable battery with high power density, long run time, good safety and storage life using SKCP's advanced polymer Li-ion technology.; BENEFIT: High energy, Safety, Wide-temperature range and Good power capability rechargeable batteries for uses for battlefield airmen.

ABSTRACT: Next generation satellite communication systems must be robust to hostile jammers which degrade link budget and desensitize reception. A proposed solution is to use frequency hopping techniques to communicate in a spectrum space free of hostile jammers and an all digital radio in which the agility and robustness is provided by the data-converters. To this end, broadband high dynamic rang ...

ABSTRACT: The topic requests proposals to develop scalable, flexible lower SWaP-C GPS crosslink capability that allows future operational systems to forego significant dependence upon ground clock and ephemeris refresh with concurrent support of real-time command and control and age of data. The development of this capability will improve the reliability and robustness of future GPS satellites by ...

ABSTRACT: In sensor applications, it is important to monitor smart structures such as buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, and subways. In this program, Fontus Applied Technologies proposes to develop a health monitoring sensor. Our novel system design minimizes the components needed in the system, thus the system cost, and also alleviates the speed requirement on the demodulating devices. Our prop ...

ABSTRACT: SSI proposes to develop a novel satellite tracking system with a laser projection assembly to provide a means to calibrate satellite imaging systems while they are on orbit.The instrument will use a laser to create known irradiance levels at the satellite.The beam intensity will be able to be modulated so that temporal waveforms of interest to the government can be created for testing th ...