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In Phase II, Exo-Atmospheric Technologies, LLC (EXO) will team up with multiple propulsion providers to fabricate throat inserts, pintles, and other structural components to verify and validate their Additively-Manufactured Insulating Propulsion Component (AMIPC) technology. EXO will use analysis tools to create components optimized for thermal insulation and structural performance utilizing multi ...

As USSOCOM continues to assess the future operating environment, implementing innovative solutions that promote situational awareness (SA) is of increasing importance. While situational awareness can be tied to a variety of data-types impacting a mission, for the purposes of this effort, situational awareness tied to geospatial intelligence will be the focus. When a warfighter enters an operating ...

In Phase I, Exo-Atmospheric Technologies, LLC (EXO) and their research partner Purdue University (Purdue) will fabricate two additively manufactured (AM) throat inserts, optimized for thermal insulation and structural performance using Topology Optimization, that are to be filled and consolidated with a high temperature ceramic. The assembly will undergo a hot isostatic press (HIP) procedure at Ex ...

Hypersonic vehicles operate at high-temperature, in a highly viscous flow field, for extended duration. Shock waves and boundary layers interact (SBLI) at the control surfaces of these vehicles and further increase viscous drag and aerothermal heating compared with the base vehicle. The SBLI also dramatically raises the achievable pressure ratio at the control surface if well controlled. Over long ...

"Li-ion batteries have a major downside which is their potential to initiate fires, escalate to thermal runaway increasing the violence, and to possibly explode.Traditional fire extinguishing agents either perform poorly or are impractical on these high-energy fires.Two innovations, in combination, are proposed for research and development.Pyrotechnic aerosol extinguishing agents will be proven hi ...

A new type of thrust vector control (TVC) system is proposed to enable a high-performance, low-cost defense against ballistic threats. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)

Wrong-way crashes are considered among the most lethal types of traffic incidents because of their head on characteristics and because they usually involve high rates of speed. To reduce the frequency of high-speed incidents, it is necessary to stop a wrong-way driver as soon as possible. The sooner a wrong-way driver is stopped, the less likely they are to cause a high-speed event. TAPCO believes ...

High G Aerodynamic Controls | Approved for Public Release 18-MDA-9707 (3 Jul 18)

Propose to develop an adaptive forward-facing cavity nose (AFFCN) dome component that will enable hypersonic interceptor missiles (HIM) to control spontaneous bow shock oscillations (BSO) in order to reduce aero-optic effects on the dome to improve precision guidance capacity of forward looking seekers. The proposed fundamental research on AFFCN will lead to new mechanism to modulate BSO for effic ...

Development of novel propulsion systems in the past two decades has focused almost exclusively on cryogenic boost-phase systems (LOX/LH2, LOX/LCH4, and LOX/RP-1) for launchers and uppers stage engines, and Attitude / Reaction Control Systems (A/RCS) for in-space applications using green monopropellants such AF-M315E or LMP-103S. Basic research and development of scalable, non-toxic, non-cryogenic, ...