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The current state of the art thermal battery technologies will not be able to meet future requirements that call for higher power and capacity with a smaller footprint. The principal avenue for increasing the capacity of thermal battery is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to ...

There is an ever-increasing demand on low-cost high-throughput wireless front-ends. Such high-throughput front-ends support broadband data transmission (multi-Gbit/s) for a wide variety of sensors and unmanned platforms in situational awareness, monitoring, and reconnaissance. Their wideband nature also supports the deployment of broadband communication/radar combo-systems, as well as numerous eme ...

The AEDC Aero Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) facility completed successful operation at Mach 6 and Mach 7 direct connect tunnel conditions utilizing a prototype Mach 5 free-jet configured Combustion Air Heater (CAH) injection system developed by CFD Research Corporation.These results and upgrades proposed here were presented at the 2018 Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference.This effort will full ...

Protecting electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is critical for many military operations. Typically, these sensors are shielded using metal mesh and/or thin film coatings that reflect microwave frequencies but transmit the sensor operational bands. However, for platforms that require stringent radar cross-section (RCS) control, EO/IR sensors need to be p ...

This proposal has potential commercial benefits of providing packaging for obsolete semiconductor die or small runs of semiconductor die. Additional commercial benefits include providing more versatile packaging options than currently exist.Approved for Public Release | 19-MDA-9932 (21 Feb 19)

Hot structures have been developed for a variety of advanced vehicles including the X-43A, X 37, Space Shuttle, and Advanced Hypersonic Weapon.Most of the hot structure and leading edge components on these vehicles employed composites, such as the carbon/carbon (C/C), which have significant advantages over metallic solutions.Advantages include high specific strengths; high temperature capability w ...

The objective of this effort is to construct and test a 40 kW UPS with at least 100ms of holdup time, integrated into a standard 19 inch rack mount enclosure with 4U (7 inch) height, and designed to meet electrical and mechanical/shock specifications required for naval shipboard application. Traditional UPS applications are typically not optimized for weight and volume, and utilize bulky lead-acid ...

This document presents Optical Sciences Corporation's SBIR technology transition proposal to develop an advanced Dynamic Optical Coupler (DOC) for Wide Field-of-View (WFOV) and wide field-of-regard space sensor testing and to integrate the DOC into a government owned space simulation chamber.The DOC will be capable of positioning the projected scenes from a narrow FOV IR Scene Projector (IRSP) any ...

The proposed Phase 2 NSL Black Box is a redundant radio link connected through the $2B Globalstar commercial Sat-phone constellation and a timely AF Dual-Purpose Technology. The miniaturized and autonomous Black Box (BB) solution with its 24/7 global coverage (latency of seconds) can greatly increase performance and response, reduce risk, and help with orbital debris tracking. The Black Box techno ...

Legacy Air Force IT systems behind the Operational Training Infrastructure (OTI) are inhibiting warfighter readiness due to lack of interoperability and flexibility, high costs, and need for manual processes. Next generation cloud computing that focuses on cloud-native, serverless designs will enable the Air Force to embrace agility, security, scalability, and lower costs to modernize the OTI.Trek ...