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Cross Deck Pendants (CDP) used to recover aircraft onboard U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are exposed to a challenging environment of physical impact, abrasion, and strain which limit life expectancy to approximately 125 arrestment cycles. Three primary effects are known to contribute to CDP failure including tailhook impact, hook slip, and final bending around the hook—although the precise contrib ...

The US Navy has identified refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs) and metal additive manufacturing (AM) as enabling technologies to meet performance and sustainability targets for shipboard and aircraft systems. Key challenges include designing RHEAs and optimizing metal AM to achieve desired material properties for Navy propulsion applications. Developing materials and processes via traditional e ...

Atmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc. (APS) has developed a proprietary atmospheric plasma coating removal (APCR) technology that requires only compressed air and electricity to operate. The output of the APCR system is a concentrated, low-temperature, air-plasma beam that has been shown to be highly effective at removing organic coatings, paint, and sealants. The objectives of this project are to de ...

In resource limited settings, rapid and accurate diagnosis of infections is critical for managing potential exposures to highly virulent pathogens, whether occurring from an act of bioterrorism or a natural event. This is especially important for hard to detect intracellular bacterial and alphavirus infections, that overlap symptomatically and often treated empirically due to a lack of reliable an ...

Many components and structural parts on military aircraft can experience fatigue-induced failure modes, the likelihood of which typically depend on the historical aircraft usage regimes. AVNIK Defense Solutions, Inc. is leading this NAVAIR SBIR project to develop new automated methods for managing fatigue life of aircraft components, considering the actual usage and historical field experience, to ...

Creare proposes to develop novel icephobic coatings for F-35 turbomachinery inlet components. Our baseline approach explores the use of novel easily applied silicone-based coating technologies specifically engineered for challenging lift fan and engine compressor geometries. Our integration leverages Creare’s decades of advances in turbomachinery development with the advanced aerospace coating e ...

The current state of weather requirements definition for tactical missiles is outdated providing operational decision makers little confidence in the performance of missiles in environments other than blue-sky. The challenge is understanding physics features like drop shape change through a shock, and being able to apply those at the system level for vehicle performance assessment. Research over t ...

Detection, classification/recognition, and tracking surface vessels on water is very challenging for many reasons. Haze, marine layer, and/or other particulates can attenuate signal and create path background radiance, all of which reduce the contrast of the target against the background. The intensity and spatial frequencies of the background often mimic the surface vessel making acquisition and ...

The CFDRC team proposed to develop and validate a first-principles based, high-fidelity multiphase CFD tool to predict raindrop distortion and demise in the flow field around a missile in supersonic flight in order to understand both the impact event and the associated material damage mechanisms. In Phase I, the distortion of spherical drops in a planar shock front case showed excellent agreement ...

Creare is developing a heater utilizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that have high temperature uniformity and high optical transmission with low glare. We are creating a system capable of varying the effective sheet resistance across the windshield. The system produces a robust heater layer that can be flexed and easily scaled up to a production environment. In Phase I, we fabricated and tested optica ...