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Using modern additive manufacturing technology, GTL proposes to develop a geometry based thermal management system to enable the development of a Morphing Rocket Throat. With this capability, rocket motors will be able to achieve the same type of throttling provided by pintle nozzles, but without the complexity and mass of a pintle. In the Phase I effort, GTL and UTK will develop a conceptual desi ...

eSpin Technologies will complete the scale up of a production-scale machine to produce novel, high performance battery separator material for Li primary batteries. The production scale process will be developed to produce novel separator and variants which have the potential for a significantly higher volumetric efficiency for electrolyte storage capacity and kinetics to distribute electrolyte flo ...

The electronics onboard a missile-defense interceptor must operate in a harsh environment and reach high temperatures due to aero-heating, self-heating, and/or proximity to a propulsion system. These high temperatures degrade electrical performance and weaken the ability to withstand mechanical and chemical stresses. Conventional silicon-based electronics fail above a certain temperature whereby r ...

The DoD has identified a need to develop radiation hardened electronic components capable of surviving and operating through exposure to radiation environments encountered in space. To protect these electronic components, systems typically employ a combination of methods for radiation protection. International FemtoScience (FemtoSci) proposes a practical solution to produce Inherently Radiation Ha ...

An opportunity exists to design and fabricate microelectronic components that are inherently radiation hardened and require no radiation protection methods. International FemtoScience (FemtoSci) proposes a practical solution to produce Inherently Radiation Hardened Microelectronic Components by employing diamond emitter vacuum device technology. These components have demonstrated that diamond emis ...

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 ...

In this effort GTL proposes to develop a high performance, lightweight, low cost composite cryogenic propellant tank that meets or exceeds MDA missile system requirements. In the Phase I effort, GTL will verify critical capabilities to ensure the feasibility of the technology. This effort leverages previous cryotank composite cylindrical and spherical tank work performed by GTL. In the follow-on P ...

In the Phase I effort, GTL showed that future missile interceptor performance can be substantially increased by the combination of an innovative configuration and a breakthrough composite tank technology. The Phase II effort will include material characterization testing and the fabrication and testing of multiple small-scale tanks. Based on those results, GTL will design, analyze, fabricate and t ...

International FemtoScience will develop and demonstrate a new technology to achieve an advanced accelerometer that enhances an Inertial Measurement Unit’s high-g operability. This accelerometer provides smaller, lighter, more robust, less expensive devices, compatible with known production methodologies. To achieve the required performance a novel material (not silicon-based, to achieve the high ...

GTL has identified an innovative architecture for KV Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS). Instead of mounting a set of liquid propellant tanks around a central structural mast as done in conventional storable liquid DACS, the Compact Modular DACS uses an innovative configuration for propellant storage. The CMDACS architecture has increased volumetric efficiency that will increase the kinemat ...