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In Phase I, Ambient Micro successfully demonstrated the capability of its Multi-Source Ambient Power Supply module to simultaneously harvest and store energy from multiple ambient sources to extend the operating life of MEMS Vehicle Health Monitoring sensors for UAV-mounted sensor systems. As the U.S. Air Force increasingly evolves UAV mission roles to support persistent surveillance, persistent s ...

Augmentor static stability is critical to the operational performance of numerous military jet engines. Current predictive tools for augmentor performance and static stability (i.e., lean blowout) are based on decades old empirical correlations that do not provide reliable estimates for advanced augmentor designs. Recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and advanced combustion diag ...

Advanced propulsion systems for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft require the use of advanced materials for longer life, reduced weight, and increased performance. Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials have the potential to realize these benefits; however, the high cost of finished CMC components makes wide implementation impractical. To reduce these costs, new innovative fabrication te ...

Future DoD infrared sensor missions will require reliable, efficient, and lightweight cryocoolers. A prior program at Creare resulted in the design of a two stage, high-capacity turbo-Brayton cryocooler. The cryocooler is comparable in mass and efficiency with competing cryocooler technologies and has the inherent benefits of negligible vibration emittance, ability to cool remote or distributed ...

This proposal addresses the need for a modern aircrew personnel lowering device (PLD) to help parachutists extricate themselves from trees or other elevated obstructions. The existing PLD design is over three decades old and is large, cumbersome, difficult to use and has significant thermal control issues. A more compact and streamlined device is desired as a future replacement. Creare proposes ...

Hearing protection for personnel working in high-noise environments presents an important challenge for the scientific and engineering community. Air Force maintenance personnel working in close proximity to operating jet aircraft can be exposed to sound levels approaching 150 dBA. At these levels, the attenuation provided by hearing protection devices (HPDs) is limited by bone-conducted sound th ...

We propose epitaxial InSb grown on large metamorphic GaAs substrates as a platform to enable large affordable midwave infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs). In Phase 1, we developed buffers to accommodate the InSb/GaAs lattice mismatch and quantified their effectiveness by fabricating hybrid chips of 320x256 arrays of detector pixels flip-chip bump-bonded to matching fanouts and readout multiplexers ...

For efficient space operations, and for effective space force enhancement to terrestrial forces, Aerospace Operations Center (AOC) personnel must be continuously aware of the status of on-orbit assets, payload coverage, reacting to system degradations andfailures, and responding to intolerant environments for satellites. To complete the situational awareness picture, there is also the need to depi ...

Recent advances in electromagnetic technology clearly lend themselves to application in space-based data storage/retrieval systems. Commercial data storage systems provide low cost, long-life operation and strong logic/control systems, but employmechanical bearings that limit their resistance to shock and life expectancy. A similar system ruggedized for space via integrated magnetic motor-bearing ...

Oceanit has successfully shown in Phase I that highly accurate (sub-arcsecond) observations are obtainable utilizing a relatively low-cost COTS system. These highly accurate angular observations can be introduced into the orbit determination process as asupplement to high-quality range data. These improved angular observations help resolve the geometric ambiguity of range-only orbit determinatio ...