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SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to mature and transition SI2’s multifunction sensor product. Specifically, SI2 will update the antenna and electronics designs to match the form factor and performance requirements, update the radio firmware to provide the required functionality, and manufacture and test the design within a flight-worthy pod for use with a small attritable aerial platfo ...

Smart munitions and advanced missile systems require ever increasing capabilities for radar, data link and communications. The various functions are currently provided by separate systems with dedicated antenna apertures and typically operate at different, often widely separated frequencies. Volume constraints on weapons platforms make integration of multiple functions, each employing discrete ant ...

FireSky/CHATTIN (Cyber Hardening and Agility Technology for Tactical IP Networks) provides cyber defense, agility, and real-time threat intelligence for aerial tactical IP networks. FireSky/CHATTIN drops into existing IP based aerial networks and provides cyber defense. This work involves enhancing FireSky/CHATTIN to provide the capabilities required for deployment to Battlefield Airborne Communic ...

This Sequential Phase II effort will demonstrate the micro-loop oscillating heat pipe heat spreader technology (m-Loop-OHP-HS) for solid state power amplifiers in a real-world spacecraft structure to advance its technology readiness level for near-term insertion into programs of record. Additionally, the m-Loop-OHP-HS technology will be prototyped in novel materials and form factors to create mult ...

ZKxKZ proposes to continue development and demonstration of hardware and software upgrades for the Weapons Storage and Security System elevator. Currently, motion at the four corners of WS3 is not controlled with adequate precision, resulting in differential motion measured at these corners of 1-mm or more. This can cause the system to become too far out of level, resulting in excessive wear of sc ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDEs) are a leading approach for replacing the Brayton cycle with the much more efficient detonation cycle for air-breathing propulsion. Obtaining these efficiencies will push the limits of available materials, even for applications using significant gas cooling.Those hot-section materials must be chemically stable at heat-soak temperatures of 1450oC while experiencing ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to design, develop, and demonstrate a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) for upper stage propulsion systems of small launch vehicles. This novel engine design is based on a unique expansion nozzle that addresses the thrust performance issues that have persisted in rotating detonation engines to date. Exhaust gas acceleration is optimized by swept contour ...

We propose to develop, test, and deliver to the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) a robust, cost-effective, and accurate field-deployable calibration system for verification and validation of approved regulatory instruments for measurements of military and commercial aircraft non-volatile particulate matter (nvPM) emissions. The field-deployable calibration system will c ...

Modern adversaries are gaining proficiency at forging cyber attacks against cyber networks in the United States. The threat is particularly salient for our militarys strategic systems, such as the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and Nuclear Command and Control at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AF NWC), which often depend on networked technologies or embedded systems that may be ...

The Physical Sciences Inc. team proposes to optimize and scale up the portable, modular microreactor systems developed in Phase I, which were designed to produce the energetic ionic liquids that constitute the AF-M315E propellant. In Phase I, process feasibility was demonstrated in the microreactor systems for production of the targeted energetic compounds.In Phase II, we will optimize these micro ...