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Torsion bar systems are simple and rugged suspension solutions that have served the heavy combat vehicle community well for many decades.Although newer systems exist, they come at the expense of complexity and cost, a trade-off that, to date, the programs have been reluctant to accept.Corvid Technologies seeks to conceive, develop, and mature a simple torsion bar upgrade solution that extends the ...

AURA Technologies proposes to continue the development of key components of the next generation tactical power grid. Our innovations allow for the grid to provide far more than reliable, stable power.

Over a decade ago, security practitioners highlighted threats posed by memory corruption exploits subverting systems through manipulation of security-critical non-control-data — without ever corrupting application control-flow. Since that demonstration, however, the full power of data-oriented attacks went largely unnoticed until very recently. One reason for this recent emergence is that exploi ...

Lulaza Aerospace LLC proposes to study the design and rapid manufacture of a “Flying Missile Rail,” an autonomous UAV carried beneath a fighter that can release an AIM-120 missile from captive carry, or alternately can fly away from the fighter to maneuver and/or extend the range of the missile. This air-launched UAV can also carry and launch the Small Diameter Bomb or special payload pod. Thi ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

Both chemicals Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) are very persistent, toxic, and bio-accumulate in the environment and human body. PFAS can end up in soil from multiple sources, often mixed with other pollutants. Because of their unique lipid- and water-repellent characteristics, PFOS and PFOA are used as surface-active agents in various high-temperature applicatio ...

Army mission planning is complex and entails coordination across echelons in a dynamic environment. There is a significant opportunity to mitigate the complexity with new decision aiding systems. Chief among the challenges is designing a decision aiding system that appropriately represents the many planning artifacts, both digital and analog, as well as updating and integrating the dynamic entitie ...

Primal Space Systems (PSS) will prototype the GPEG.MIL (Geometry Pump Engine Group) protocol for efficient 3D geospatial data streaming over constrained tactical networks. The Phase I effort will demonstrate that the unique method of encoding and streaming this 3D data as visibility event (VE) packets could provide a >5x reduction in bandwidth requirements for streaming large urban canyon data set ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

A pulsed high voltage DC power supply will be used drive an atmospheric pressure plasma reactor with the goal of developing a conceptual design for the purpose of depositing extended solids. The reactor falls within the category of a dielectric barrier discharge where a dielectric barrier covers at least one of the two parallel plate electrodes. It is a non-equilibrium reactor where electron tempe ...