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Navy operational needs dictate that thermal interface materials (TIMs) have high thermal conductance, high dielectric strength, form non-permanent bonds, and be resilient to vibration and abrasion. Available TIMs each satisfy a portion of these requirements, but not all of them.Glacigen Materials will develop a new class of TIM by creating a novel composite material. This material will be embodied ...

The V-22 Osprey’s unique capabilities make it an ideal choice to support many insertion and extraction missions into hostile areas. These missions, however, expose the aircraft and crew to small arms fire. The V-22 is currently fielding armor kits that are installed over flooring panels and against cabin sidewalls. These kits are able to stop small arms rounds, but adversely affect mission capab ...

There is a growing need to fabricate visibly-opaque, infrared-transparent, high-optical-quality optics that conform to an aircraft’s outer moldline shape to reduce drag. However, fabrication of such free-form and aspheric infrared (IR) optics has proven challenging. The current fabrication bottleneck is in the speed and precision of measuring the optical figure and transmitted wavefront error fo ...

There is a growing need to fabricate high-optical-quality optics that conform to an aircraft’s outer moldline shape to reduce drag. However, fabrication of such free-form and aspheric optics has proven challenging. The current fabrication bottleneck is in the speed and precision of performing metrology of the optical surfaces because traditional interferometric techniques are not applicable. To ...

The Navy seeks an in-situ powder coating material and application method for spot repair. Resodyn Corporation proposes a unique restoration and repair polymer thermal spray coating (R & RPTS) system that provides the ease of repair, safety in handling, and effective coating protection to fulfill the Navy needs. The proposed system will be a zero VOC, non-toxic, non-chromated material with the pote ...

The U.S. Navy has significantly improved its operational capabilities in littoral and near-shore seawater which has resulted in the need to achieve much better pre-treatment of the seawater withdrawn from the often turbid and debris-filled shallow waters for cooling and onboard desalination systems. Low-maintenance microfiltration is now used for pre-treatment, and it relies upon periodic electrol ...

The US Navy has an immediate and compelling need for a handheld, battery powered, fiber optic power meter with a remote optical detector. Existing handheld meters have the optical detector mounted on the main unit. Such meters often do not fit in the tight spaces found in ships, planes, and other vehicles. A novel fiber optic power meter design with a remote optical detector probe is proposed for ...

Real-time meteorological data is becoming ever more critical to military operations. Such data should be available from as many locations around a theater of operation as possible. To that end, there is a need for compact weather sensors that can be quickly deployed by a wide variety of methods, ranging from high-performance aircraft to infantry soldiers. The resulting local weather data will b ...