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Increasing the energy of the electron beam striking an X-ray target can lead to higher electron to X-ray conversion efficiency. For a given electron beam energy, the conversion efficiency can be enhanced through various methods. Optimizing the electron beam parameters, such as beam current, pulse width, and repetition rate, can also improve the conversion efficiency. Choice of the X-ray target mat ...

Assured Information Security, Inc. (AIS), in collaboration with Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), proposes a second (or sequential) Phase II of the Byte-Taint Resonance Imaging (ByteRI) STTR effort. This iteration of the ByteRI program will expand upon the binary analysis and program behavior analysis concepts identified in the original effort and ...

The national imperative to field hypersonic weapon systems has increased the demand for robust, lightweight, and affordable high temperature materials for thermal protection systems.  Refractory composites such as carbon-carbon (C/C) or carbon/SiC (C/SiC) offer enormous promise, but wider-scale acceptance continues to be hindered by certain technical and affordability limitations.  Key among the ...

Legacy systems represent challenges for the military services and DLA.  During the initial SBIR Phase II, the fuel oil cooler (FOC) for the TF34 and other engines—which have been problem parts for years—were successfully addressed.  This effort applied proven reverse engineering methods to generate a technical data package (TDP) that can enable a qualified production source to make the part ...

Modern weapon systems and their testing infrastructure rely on the use of open-source software. Open source is provided “AS IS”' without guarantees. Code is often vulnerable with hard-to-mitigate attack surfaces. Tenet3, LLC will address this problem with an innovative machine learning-based approach for vulnerability detection as part of the CI/CD process. The solution is based on Explainable ...

Maintaining the many types of legacy weapon systems within the Department of Defense (DoD) is an enormous task, made more challenging by the aging of many of these systems. Some of the weapons were designed over 50 years ago and are now facing a shortage of sustainment components due to obsolescence. The situation is further complicated by the lack of sufficient documentation for fabricating or bu ...

The goal of this Phase II project is to support the DOD supply chain with the installation of a pilot scale domestic manufacturing source for polycarbosilane (PCS) preceramic polymer for high temperature or hypersonic applications. CermeTech will work closely with a Tier 1 supplier of composite structures and components to test and verify key performance criteria and develop and demonstrate pilot ...

Many military missions are based on the movement of individuals to the right location at the right time, while also ensuring that these individuals are able to exfiltrate to safe areas. Part of the military tactical advantage is often based on the ability to make these movements covertly, across a variety of weather conditions and operational environments. Special Operations Forces are largely bui ...

High temperature resistant materials, including carbon-carbon (C-C) are critical to enabling the thermal protection of hypersonic DoD weapons.  A specific focus of the Defense Logistics Agency is on innovation for improved production rate and affordability for C-C thermal protection systems and delivery of that innovation to DoD system manufacturers. Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) proposes ...

The Digital Sustainment Platform (DSP) provides cloud-based industry best practice advanced analytics, engineering, manufacturing, modeling & simulation, product quality, and supply chain management service-based capabilities for the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and DoD Arsenals, Depots, and Shipyards, and extends these same capabilities via a Service Portfolio Mana ...