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ABSTRACT:A Propellant Health Monitoring (PHM) Sensor for Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) utilizes actual propellant components in a tiny new sensor called AgeAlert.These sensors provide real-time data corresponding to mechanical property degradation resulting from environmental aging of propellants.The sensors are mounted external to the propellant and automatically track degradation passively without ...

ABSTRACT: Global Technology Connection, Inc., in collaboration with its academic and industrial partners proposes to develop a hierarchical 3-tier fault tolerant architecture to improve aircraft reliability, safety, and availability. The hierarchical system will support autonomous decisions for aircraft mission modification, trajectory planning, and low-level controller reconfiguration. At the ...

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 ...

Chronic and severe eye wounds are extremely painful, and may fail to heal leading to a potential loss of vision. It is estimated that over 17% of all military field casualties are due to a traumatic ocular injury. There is a need to develop new approaches to treat the injured eye that enhance regeneration of the ocular surface. The proposed novel, first-in-class silk-derived protein (SDP) ophthalm ...

ABSTRACT: New Wave Design & Verification proposes to design and simulate an IEEE-1394b System-on-a-Chip core that provides aircraft network administrators the ability to diagnose issues, provide statistics, and troubleshoot nodes efficiently. Implementation of the IEEE-1394 controller in programmable logic will also provide the opportunity to fix/modify several aspects of the current protocol imp ...

ABSTRACT:Data transmission in communication systems, RADARs, satellite systems, and other military devices are dominated by analog data conversion. These high performance digital to analog converters (DAC) exceed 3Gsps with 12 bits of resolution and are readily available in the commercial marketplace, but they lack the radiation hardness required to support military satellite applications. Tru ...

The emergence of metal-organic frameworks has presented an untapped potential for solving US Army individual and collective protection issues. The majority of work on MOF synthesis has been done at lab scale, yielding milligram or gram quantities. To test practical devices, scale up of MOF synthesis processes to kilogram quantities is necessary. However, most large commercial suppliers are uninte ...

Applied Colloids proposes the use of its proprietary nanofluid technology as an add-in treatment process for gearboxes and transmissions of military ground vehicles that would reduce the internal friction generated in them. This would reduce the vehicle fuel consumption by 2 to 3%. It would also reduce the wear and maintainance costs for this equipment. Applied Colloids will form the nanofluids ...

ABSTRACT: R-DEX Systems proposes to develop the Terabit Optical COMMunications (TOCOMM) System to radically improve airborne Free-Space Optical (FSO) communications. TOCOMM will combine proven spatial, spectral, and polarization multiplexing, advanced coding and channel equalization, advanced optics, advanced laser communications and state-of-the-art pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) tech ...