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ES3 has completed a SBIR Phase I effort of a feasibility study for the research and development of Nano-composite High Velocity Oxygen Fueled (HVOF) coatings for replacement of hard chrome plating on high-strength steel landing gear components.The Phase I work focused on finding an HVOF coating that will be more resistant to spallation when subjected to high-bending stress loads on landing gear co ...

ABSTRACT: Electrical motors are rapidly replacing hydraulic motors in flight actuators for aircraft applications. In hydraulic systems, accumulators are used to store regenerative energy from the actuators as well as to supply peak energy demands of these actuators in response to flight control system demands. No electrical analog (Electrical Accumulator Unit) exists in production, although som ...

ABSTRACT:GoHypersonic Inc. is proud to present the following Phase II SBIR Proposal to the AFRL/RZA involving the development, fabrication, and testing of a high-performing flight-capable self-starting scramjet inlet.Under our Phase I SBIR work, we have developed and validated a self-starting inward-turning scramjet inlet concept and created a coupled CFD/thermal design and analysis capability.Our ...

ABSTRACT:There is a growing need for timely processing, exploitation, and distribution of sensor data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles to generate actionable intelligence. Challenges exist in producing hardware that is rugged enough to withstand the physical demands of airborne platforms, yet able to deliver significant computing performance within the size, weight and power constraints of sm ...

ABSTRACT:Toyon Research Corporation proposes to develop a decentralized asset management framework which will provide near-optimal loose cooperative control of diverse assets within the Layered Sensing Architecture. We propose to develop an asset manager which will perform allocation, assignment, vehicle routing, target prediction, and sensor tasking for a heterogeneous collection of assets while ...

ABSTRACT:In an attempt to address the data overload challenge significant work has been conducted studying the human factors and cognitive science issues related to exploitation of big data. Also, significant investment has been made in automated or autonomous processing/exploitation capability. It is clear that no matter how efficiently the human cognitive ability is applied to manually interpret ...

ABSTRACT:The objective of the project is to develop models for secondary debris generated by mobile targets. This includes the vehicle component breakup due to expanding high explosives and primary fragments as well as the associated airblast that propagates into the environment propelling secondary fragments from the vehicle. The overall scope of the project involves developing the computational ...

ABSTRACT:Most of the air delivered air force weapons are designed to detonate inside structures.However, due to targeting inaccuracies and other reasons they may land outside a structure and could detonate partially or fully buried in soil.These events could result in collateral damage to people, vehicles in the vicinity.Air force would like to have a fast running capability to assess the risk due ...

ABSTRACT:Toyon Research Corporation proposes research and development of advanced algorithms and real-time software to provide significant improvements in geo-registration for wide area motion imagery (WAMI) systems such as ARGUS-IS, Gorgon Stare, and Blue Devil. The proposed algorithms perform joint processing of information extracted from the WAMI imagery and information extracted from typical n ...

ABSTRACT:QuinStar proposes to develop an efficient, linear solid-state power amplifier (SSPA), operating over the 81 to 86 GHz band, for high data rate communications between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and satellites. We will accomplish this by employing state-of-the-art wide-bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) HEMT devices in conjunction with several circuit innovations. First, we will employ a qu ...