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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 ...

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 ...

The XTG (pronounced “ex-tag”) smart tag system, provides individual device authentication, traceability, and a higher standard of security with an information rich system able to record, view, and analyze each tagged product’s full provenance production history.  The XTG system serves as a holistic solution, capable of combining and incorporating device level traceability data across both m ...

This Phase II project seeks to develop a method for the recycling of rare earth zirconate thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). Thermal barrier coatings are crucial to the function and performance of military aircraft engines, as they influence the operating temperatures and environments for the aircrafts. There are currently two main types of established thermal barrier coating materials, yttria-stabi ...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) constitute some of the most important advanced materials utilized in military aircraft applications. The elevated operating temperatures, enhanced abilities to resist adverse environmental conditions, and increased fuel efficiencies of modern aircraft engines are all related to improvements in thermal barrier coatings. These improvements in TBC behavior and performa ...

This project seeks to build on a Phase 1 effort to reduce the cost and supply barriers to the implementation of Al-Ce alloys in defense and commercial applications using direct reduction of cerium precursors in molten aluminum. A successful project will eliminate the need for foreign sources of cerium metal and exploit the cost differences between pure cerium and its oxide, currently a factor of t ...

GrammaTech proposes AMBER (Autonomic Monitoring [and Mitigation] with Blockchain-Enabled Reporting), a framework to harden Internet of Things (IoT) devices against cyber-attacks. AMBER builds on existing GrammaTech technologies to provide an end-to-end security solution, including (1) a framework for automatically generating and installing runtime verification policies and attack mitigation techni ...

This proposal continues the development of aluminum alloy systems that use cerium as a primary alloying element at near eutectic compositions. Additional alloying elements can be used primarily to assist in the development of room-temperature mechanical properties. The cerium in the alloy stabilizes those properties at high temperatures (200-400°C). The primary intermetallic formed in the aluminu ...

This Phase I project seeks to develop a method for the recycling of rare earth zirconate thermal barrier coatings (TBCs).  Thermal barrier coatings are crucial to the function and performance of military aircraft engines, as they influence the operating temperatures and environments for the aircrafts.  There are currently two main types of established thermal barrier coating materials, yttria-s ...

Response Technologies’ goal is to provide the DLA and the USAF with qualified self-sealing fuel cells for the F-16 aircraft platform.  A bi-product of this effort will be proven tank constructions for other legacy aircraft and the future vertical lift.  This Phase I’s effort spans three to six months and is characterized by identifying and documenting all requirements and test methods to qua ...