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"Mentis proposes to leverage the advantages of its high-temperature, low-density quartz/polysiloxane composite materials and develop fiber architectures that reduce interlaminar shear stresses. These developments would improve aerothermal longevity and performance and also utilize automated fiber placement methods that increase the affordability of nosecone materials. Mentis proposes to design a c ...

A NEW PROCESS CALLED THE NELSON FILTER SYSTEMIS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THE NELSON FILTER SYSTEM IS AN ADVANCED DRY SCRUBBING SYSTEM THAT REMOVES SIMULTANEOUSLY BOTH SO2 AND NOX FROM FLUE GASES. IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE, HAVING DEMON-STRATED REPEATEDLY IN LABORATORY TESTS 99.9% SO2 AND OVER 90% NO2 REMOVAL. IT IS ENVIRONMENTALLY ATTRACTIVE IN THAT NO SLUDGE OR TROUBLESOME WASTES ARE PRODUCED. IT ...

In Phase I, the Peerless team developed an approach for an innovative wizard driven, turn-key, system that can be used by inexperienced operators to quickly design new sensor networks and evaluate existing sensor networks for the protection against and detection of CB agents within public structures. For Phase II, Peerless will conduct three development spirals to build the prototype system, valid ...

Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) proposes to provide a complete conformal coating solution to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). CRG developed a conformal coating under a previous anti-tamper SBIR program. The manufacturing process and proprietary mixing procedures have been developed for this baseline formulation, and independent laboratory testing has produced good results. This formulation ...

The main objective will be to optimize and improve the reliability and reduce the overall system weight for the numerous currently pneumatically actuated flight qualified valves. The Phase I formulations of lightweight and chemical resistant composites will be optimized for performance and ease of fabrication into valve components. Prototype valves will be fabricated and tested. Extensive te ...

Fast cook-off (FCO) mitigation solutions rely on a system approach including propellant chemistry and packaging modifications. Case venting is recommended so that in a fire, pressure is unable to build to a critical point. Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) and a commercial partner propose to integrate an existing thermoplastic toughening agent containing core-shell nanothermite into a composit ...

We propose to develop a high-performance longwave infrared focal plane array (FPA) based on Type-II InAs/(In)GaSb strained-layer-superlattice (SLS) technology and deliver it packaged in a portable handheld CAMERA. In Phase 1, a matrix of recipes was designed and grown, several wafers were processed, arrays were fabricated and characterized, and material and process issues identified. In Phase 2, ...

In this Phase II SBIR project, Lithium Innovations, in partnership with Lucintech Inc, will build on the success of its innovative thin-film neutron detector developed and tested in Phase I. The detector is based on the use of a metallic lithium-6 sensitizer layer paired with a thin-film CdS/CdTe heterojunction to detect the alpha and triton charged particles produced by the n + Li-6 reaction. Th ...

CURRENT MARINE ANTIFOULING COATINGS RELY ON THE ACTIVITY OF TRIBUTYLTIN COMPLEXES, EITHER POLYMER BOUND OR FREELY ASSOCIATED IN A VINYL MATRIX PAINT, TO INHIBIT OR LIMIT SESSILE FOULING. PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION IS DIRECTED ATPROHIBITING OR RESTRICTING THE AMOUNT OF ANTIFOULANT ENTERING THE BIOSPHERE AND FOODCHAIN. IN LIGHT OF THESE FACTS AN ALTERNATE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM IS NECESSARY. KROSS INCOR ...

The Phase I effort established the necessary building blocks for the fabrication in Phase II of advanced high power, robust, polarization insensitive integrated optic phase modulators and polarization controllers to meet the requirements for low SWaP coherent and spectral beam combining applications. Substantial progress has been made in this Phase I SBIR, including demonstration of low loss optic ...