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Current materials which are available to designers of hypersonic seeker windows are often difficult to manufacture and made in small quantities at significant cost due to the demanding conditions encountered by these materials during hypersonic flight. High temperatures, aerodynamic pressures, and dynamic loading due to maneuvering of hypersonic vehicles produce an extreme thermomechanical environ ...

Carbon-Carbon (C-C) composites have a thermal protection systems (TPS) pedigree for next generation hypersonic flight systems due their retention of mechanical properties at temperatures exceeding 2,000°C. Continued research and development on C-C composites is required to increase the national capability, capacity, and speed of delivery for C-C composite materials. Innovative low-cost C-C compos ...

The innovation proposed here is a novel carbon-carbon composite (CCC) manufacturing method based on polymer infusion and polymerization (PIP) using a novel precursor polymer with exceptionally high char yields. This results in a material that has the promise of excellent quality and mechanical properties, while offering the breakthrough advantages of (1) greatly reduced or eliminated need for back ...

In Phase II, the Attollo team proposes to investigate the growth and fabrication techniques of LWIR SLS and associated variants to meet the target objectives. Our plan is to push the envelope further by increasing the absorption coefficient, improving the material quality and carrier lifetime, and reducing any surface leakage contribution from detector fabrication. At the end of Phase II, we expec ...

Conventional “subtractive” machining is a huge industry with critical implications for USAF and DOD. The vast majority of safety-critical parts are manufactured using subtractive machining because it produces excellent dimensional tolerance and a high-qua

Accurate, high-performance 3D vision frameworks will play a key role in the development of advanced manufacturing. These systems will employ the use of powerful data feature extractors such as deep neural networks (DNNs). However, in terms of size, latenc

Military missions often have a deep hierarchical structure due to the need for extensive support for the top-level goal.  A typical strike mission in an Air Tasking Order (ATO) has the top-level goal to degrade specific targets.  To achieve that goal, pla

K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra-high-power spacecraft capable of delivering over 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconna

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used extensively for DoD firefighting applications due to their thermochemical stability and unique properties. PFAS are long-lived in the environment and coming under increased regulatory scrutiny due

The proposed solution integrates AtomBeam's Neural Compaction software technology into the (RDUCE) program and SOSA platform, enabling efficient connectivity and data transmission among platforms and systems. AtomBeam's unique Compaction technology utiliz