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Ignition of rocket motors can be performed using low-volt firing components, but MIL-STD-1901A requires mechanical isolation for safety. While traditional safe & arm devices are available, they are relatively large and heavy. Recent progress in MEMS has developed miniature safe & arm devices for low-cost munitions such as 40MM grenade and airburst munitions. The Black Hills Nanosystems team has ...

ABSTRACT:Typically, an organization like Air Force Material Command (AFMC) has a large computing environment which grows organically over a period of years with a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications, often with overlap and gaps in functionality. Understanding this application environment what is there and who uses it, and the purpose being served can be very difficult. T ...

ABSTRACT:Software applications within any large-scale enterprise environment rarely, if ever, live in isolation. System users require access to enterprise functions regardless of the actual system in which that functionality may exist. Therefore, such distributed systems need to be connected into an integrated solution. The consistency of the data throughout this integration process is paramount a ...

The goal of this proposal is to fabricate highly efficient regenerators using LIGA-based micromachining techniques. Specifically, sheets having a thickness of around 1.0 millimeter will be fabricated from lead or another material with high heat capacityat cryogenic temperatures. Each sheet will contain very small diameter holes (less than 50 micrometers in diameter), with a hole density that pro ...

This is a proposal for developing a novel boiling system to remove heat fluxes of up to 1kW/cm2, using an array of impinging micro-jets. The use of an array of micro-jets with diameters in the range of 200-500 microns, allows for removal of large heatfluxes at coolant flow rates, which can be up to one order of magnitude less than the coolant requirement for conventional-size (diameter of order o ...

This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Project will examine the technical feasibility of a robust, low cost software differential analysis shield (SoftDASh) that comprises several tools and methodologies for effectively countering differentialanalysis of application software. SoftDASh components will be optimized to operate on standard processors (e.g., ADM, Intel, Motorola, etc.) used in ...