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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Verification and validation (V&V) of ICs have become progressively difficult as design complexity, the reuse of third-party intellectual property, and malicious attacks on microelectronics have all increased. Given these challenges, the DoD needs automated, user-friendly post-synthesis verification and validation solutions to assure its critical hardware systems. To address this need, ECI presents ...

Shortage of spare parts for our U.S. Navy assets can be costly as shown last year when the U.S. Navy to resort to a partial “spare parts cannibalism” for the newest carrier USS Gerald R. Ford that worth $13 billion. Through our communication with the Navy customer (NSWC Philadelphia ISEAs ) during phase I of the project, we became aware of another issue which threaten our current Navy assets. ...

Magnesium metal, sometimes referred to as the “Green Metal” is important for defense and industrial use, as it is the lightest of all the structural and engineering metals. Magnesium also has superior mechanical properties such as high dampening capacity, heat dissipation, and shock absorbing capacity. Magnesium is 100% recyclable. Due to these factors, magnesium metal is in high demand in the ...

Industrial control system (ICS) operational technology (OT) systems enable increased process efficiency and cost savings.  At the same time, they allow for increasingly complex cyber-attacks with devastating physical impacts.  The ATC-NY team will design and build CYRIN-OT, a system for creating virtual “digital twins” of OT networks and performing security assessments on them.  Any diverge ...