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Support low-cost turbine engine manufacturing for 100 lbf thrust class engine. Utilize additive manufacturing in combination with traditional manufacturing to significantly reduce the cost of permanent tooling for investment wax patterns.

Baker Engineering (BE) will explore two paths of injector development to fulfill the need for heavy fuel direct injection in 2-50 Hp compression ignition engines for UAS/UGS applications. Both injectors eliminate the inefficient needle hydraulic circuit where drive power requirements prevented operation on small engines. During Phase I, BE explored the use of Direct Acting Piezo Injectors within t ...

While composite materials have become ubiquitous in aerospace structures over the past decade, their out-of-plane properties are highly dependent on the polymer matrix which for applications such as the reinforcement of gun barrels can lead to through thickness compression rather than axial stress applied to the fibers. Trimer Technologies recently identified a unique technology based on graphene ...

Our objective is to develop and demonstrate a compact trapped-ion system capable of trapping a linear chain of ions for use in quantum entanglement experiments. During Phase I, we will design a three-dimensional symmetrical blade-type ion trap. This geometry offers advantages such as low heating rates, very efficient screening from stray electric fields, deep trapping potential, and high optical a ...

The KTISIS Infinite Traction System (KITS) is an innovative, patent-pending, standalone, fully-automated, lightweight, and direct bolt-on solution to enhance Army’s survivability by improving their ground vehicles’ maneuverability. The survivability of Army’s ground vehicles largely depends on maneuverability and traction is the foundation of ground vehicles maneuverability because any movem ...

Global Technology Connection, Inc. (GTC) in collaboration with their academic (Rutgers University) and industrial partners proposes to develop and show methodology for a “Novel High-Volume Fraction and Aligned Short Fiber Composite Fabrication Process”. During Phase I, we will: 1) use a unique process developed by Rutgers to circumvent the challenges of uniformly dispersing and aligning Carbon ...

Under this proposed Phase I SBIR effort, ThermAvant Technologies (ThermAvant) shall design, model, prototype and analyze the thermal performance of landscaped heat sinks with integral oscillating heat pipes (OHP) and phase change material (PCM) reservoirs (collectively, OHP/PCM). Prototype OPH/PCM heat sinks shall demonstrate their unique potential to acquire, rapidly spread and isothermally store ...

In the Phase-I project Bhawin LLC will establish a production technique for ceramic windows and domes using a Calcium Lanthanum Sulphide nanopowders that will eliminate use of H2S that requires special safety precautions in CVD. The high cost and low mechanical strength of windows and domes that protect the multimode sensors on missiles and maximize their mode of operation have been a concern for ...

SoarTech, an industry leader in the development of AI/ML-enabled agents that generate behavior in complex environments, proposes a proof of concept investigation into Behavior and Action-Driven Game Environmental Rewards in Task Learning (BADGER-TL.) The proposed approach fuses intelligent system design principals from goal-based cognitive models and supervised machine learning. BADGER-TL leverage ...

R-DEX Systems (R-DEX) proposes to work with its strategic partners to develop the Cognitive Countermeasure Technology (CCT), a novel system that will radically increase the resilience of Army tactical radios to Electronic Warfare (EW) attacks. CCT will leverage the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to: (1) autonomously recognize when military waveforms are e ...