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PROJECT OBJECTIVES: COMPLETE TESTING OF FIRE-RESISTANCE AND STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF PAPER AND PAPERBOARD TREATED WITH ARNOX FIRE RETARDANT, DEVELOP PRODUCTION SCALE APPLICATION METHODS. ARNOX IS A PATENTED CONDENSED PHASE SYSTEM, LOW SMOKE FIRE RETARDANT RENDERS PAPER AND PAPERBOARD ESSENTIALLY NON-COMBUSTIBLE. DECOMPOSITION AND OUTGASSING IS MATERIALLY SLOWED. ASTM TESTS DEMONSTRATE TREATED P ...

CeraNova Corporation proposes to produce ogive missile domes of its transparent polycrystalline alumina (PCA) as an advanced material for this application. PCA has the same intrinsic properties as sapphire, but can be manufactured using the proposed low-cost powder processing method allowing for near-net-shape manufacturing. Like sapphire, PCA offers excellent erosion and wear resistance due to ...

MetaMaterials with new advancements such as fragmented aperture antenna arrays may offer additional significant advantages in the drive to provide reduced size, high efficiency controlled radiation pattern antennas (CRPAs). The Spectra Research-Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) team proposes to apply fragmented aperture and MetaMaterials technology to develop a lightweight small antenna solut ...

This Phase I SBIR program will develop a high temperature film adhesive with a service use temperature in excess of 316°C that exhibits improved handling characteristics, higher toughness, and lower melt viscosity than the current commercially available state-of-the-art polyimide film adhesive, FM 680-1. Under the proposed research effort Performance Polymer Solutions Inc. will employ an innovat ...

The proposed approach provides a high performance mechanical optical fiber splice of single piece construction. Leveraging on advanced glass and polymer material processing technologies, the new splice design offers advantageous attributes of compactness for use with minimum space intrusion, passive self-alignment of the fiber core in all directions, easy guided fiber insertion, quick action, a ...

Current torpedo active search and homing performance in shallow littoral regions can be severely degraded by reverberation. Meaningful testing and evaluation of performance in such reverberant environments is best done by high fidelity simulation. This is not only a question of the high cost of in-water testing. Such simulations can provide situations and environments that can be easily changed, a ...

Field inspection of printed circuit boards (PCB), and assessment of their condition is critical for the readiness of military equipment. A new technology is needed that is portable and able to inspect PCBs, yet can perform sophisticated characterization of defects, and predict the remaining life of the electronics. The technology proposed by RMD could revolutionize the nondestructive evaluation ...

The objective of the proposed work is to assess and enhance team situational awareness in distributed, mixed-synchrony environments. To do so, we will integrate existing state-of-the-art conceptual mapping and analysis technologies with a cutting edge peer-to-peer infrastructure. The aggregate tool will have the ability to construct a representation of each team member's situational awareness (u ...

EDAptive Computing, Inc. (ECI) and Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control Group (Lockheed) present a proposal to design and implement robust error handling techniques in aircraft, shipboard, and other complex mission-critical systems. Our Design for Error Management (ErrorX) program provides a new design paradigm allowing the user to unambiguously describe correct system behavior at a high level ...

There is an urgent need in the military to upgrade and re-implement low-level software embedded in operational weapon systems, despite the millions of lines of often undocumented code. EDAptive Computing, Inc. (ECI) presents an innovative solution to the problem of creating specifications from low level code, such as assembly and CMS-2. Our Specification and Test Based Reverse Engineering of Low L ...