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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 ...

Digital Engineering will enable our platform Mission Critical Commitment by capturing, organizing, tracing, analyzing, and validating representative UAM system architectures and requirements. Additionally, we will grow and foster the use of MBSE practices

Phenix Solutions Heavy Vertical Lift Rotary UAS is a Multi-Mission Autonomous UAS developed to vertically lift, transport, and deliver heavy loads beyond visual line of sight. Heavy Vertical Lift Rotary UAS technology gives access to demanding, extreme, a

Large-scale military and civilian planning problems are (1) distributed – decision-making is spread across multiple organizations, including organizations that must employ information that they are unable or unwilling to share; (2) heterogeneous – the domains of optimization and local criteria for optimality differ – and (3) hierarchical – higher levels of authority solve abstract versions ...

Keeping an orbital asset at an optimal operating temperature is extremely challenging as orbiting spacecraft experience large temperature swings, the difficulty in getting hardware into space, the limited amount of volume and power available on spacecraft, and the restriction that any heat that is released from a spacecraft must leave radiatively. Radiative cooling using a high-emissivity coating ...

Maintaining awareness of the space environment is a critical task for national security, one that currently relies primarily on radar and photometric data to track the thousands of active satellites and debris in Earth orbit. Despite the volumes of data a

(more detail provided in supporting slide deck) As a one-stop-shop solution with a structured, active conversation repository, including knowledge tracking, Lattus promotes relationship continuity and can be used for new team member onboarding, manager 1:1s, professional development, and to promote social, cultural, and behavioral understanding across all teams in the USAF which translates into hi ...

For hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) and hypersonic cruise missile (HCM) engagement scenarios intercept occurs in a flight regime where aerodynamic interaction and chemical reacting flow effects are large. To support the development of HGV and HCM intercept vehicle concepts, this program extends a current state-of-the-art hypersonic flow solver and modeling toolkit, Reentry Vehicle Flowfield 3-D Mod ...

Tungsten-based materials such as pure tungsten and tungsten-rhenium alloys are attractive hot-walled material options for solid rocket motor components, but they possess a high thermal diffusivity and can present some design challenges for thermal management. These challenges manifest themselves where geometric constraints, such as small thicknesses/volumes, coupled with long burn times and high t ...