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The U.S. Army is interested in the development of innovative coating technologies to allow current U.S. Army airdrop related hardware and equipment to survive fresh and salt water operations with increased reliability and without damage and significant maintenance impact. Resodyn Corporation proposes for development a durable, moisture-impermeable, thermoplastic coating material to address the U.S ...

Accurate and timely weather information for situational awareness is critical to the success of Air Force missions.To date, space-borne sensors for weather forecasting primarily include visible, infrared, and microwave instruments.While visible and infrared sensors have reached a high level of maturity and performance, those operating in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum continu ...

Normal aircraft braking is achieved through a process of reverse thrust and a system of hydraulically activated brakes located on the main wheels of the aircraft. These friction based systems offer limited performance benefits including reduced braking capabilities due to brake fade, thermal loading issues, and generally higher operational, maintenance, repair and overhaul costs over the life cycl ...

United States Air Force Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes are based upon repairable parts demand, such as Shop Replaceable Units (SRU) and Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA), and not Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). The rule of repair being 75% of the asset cost drives many assets to be repaired many times over the lifecycle of the item. Specifically, if the estimated repair cost is < 75% of the ...

The U.S. Air Force is interested in the development of a texture coating application method to produce simulated runway surface coatings that can survive on external drum dynamometers during aircraft tire/wheel/brake testing. Resodyn Corporation proposes the development of pavement-like coatings (PLC) suitable for Polymer Thermal Spray (PTS) deposition in order to address the U.S. Air Forces need ...

Air Force cargo aircraft do not currently have powered roller systems for cargo handling.Airmen must manually flip roller trays located in slots in the floor to face rollers upward to support the weight of pallets.For rolling stock, airmen must flip trays to face rollers downward and present a flush load-bearing surface.The manual effort to move pallets and flip trays causes injuries and lost work ...

Increased use of composites in USAF platforms, and in commercial aircraft necessitates accurate structural analysis of bolted joints.The main disadvantage of bolted joints is the formation of high stress concentration zones at the locations of bolt holes, which might lead to multi-mode failure of the joint.An optimum combination of geometric parameters in a bolted joint can lead to increases in jo ...

SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) seeks government support for the development of a multi-disciplinary autonomous munition simulation and optimization model. The proposed software development would determine optimal guided munitions designs for a given mission scenario, maximizing desired metrics of interest, while preserving design robustness. A flexible and adaptable software architecture would ...

This proposal describes 6 technologies that will function synergistically to greatly enhance both production and sustainment operations, by verifying part and tool use and storage, task completion, and FOD prevention.DSC proposes to develop and demonstrate a Digital Process Inspection Verification (DPIV) that displays point of use, step-by-step assembly guidance instructions while verifying and do ...

In this project, Environetix Technologies Corporation will demonstrate the feasibility of using an array of wireless, passive, Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) temperature sensors and an accompanying radio-frequency (RF) interrogator system to accurately and reliably monitor cure/bond temperatures during processing of composite structures at distances > 6 inches, within constraints dictated by vacuum b ...