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The AEDC Aero Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) facility completed successful operation at Mach 6 and Mach 7 direct connect tunnel conditions utilizing a prototype Mach 5 free-jet configured Combustion Air Heater (CAH) injection system developed by CFD Research Corporation. These results and upgrades proposed here were presented at the 2018 Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference. This effort will fu ...

This document presents Optical Sciences Corporation's SBIR technology transition proposal to develop an advanced Dynamic Optical Coupler (DOC) for Wide Field-of-View (WFOV) and wide field-of-regard space sensor testing and to integrate the DOC into a government owned space simulation chamber. The DOC will be capable of positioning the projected scenes from a narrow FOV IR Scene Projector (IRSP) an ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory is investigating methods to extract more electrical power from turbine engines. One method being investigated is the extraction of electrical power from the low spool. The net objective of this effort is to design, build, and test a low spool turbine engine generator using permanent magnet, brushless technology, integrated into the periphery of the intake fan of a ...

Anti-cancer immunization is limited by the poor immunogenicity of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) normally used for vaccination. This problem may be overcome by direct adenovirus-mediated delivery of TAAs to dendritic cells (DCs), which play a centralrole in the generation of the immune response. The specificity and efficiency of this vaccination strategy may be improved by specifically targeting ...

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The Phase II proposal provides for a very discreet, convenient, and robust way for (1) personnel in the field or on base to alert operations leadership if a situation arises requiring a response and to then provide locational tracking of that situation in real-time world-wide, (2) operations leadership to have locational awareness of large or small teams of personnel in the field and apply context ...

Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) will collaborate to develop a Monte Carlo (MC) transport simulation and device modeling software package for optoelectronic devices based on III-V Type-II superlattice (T2SL) materials. UIC’s existing, research-grade, ensemble MC transport code is predictive of carrier transport in T2SL materials because it prope ...

High-pressure turbulent combustion occurs in many combustion devices critical to the Air Force. Notwithstanding significant progress in computational modeling of these devices; several challenges have remained. A fundamental challenge is identification of reaction pathways and reactions in small molecule foundational chemical kinetics requiring improvements under these high-pressure turbulent cond ...

Current fielded sensor protection is limited to fixed wavelength filters. Broadband filters designed to circumvent multi-wavelength laser threats are plagued by low transmittance, which degrades the sensitivity and performance of the sensor. Future warfighter threats include frequency agile lasers and thus have the potential of defeating fixed filters. Self-activating (passive) devices where prote ...

In Phase I, CFDRC has successfully accomplished the development of a DoD open-source geometry kernel based on an advanced NURBS fitting procedure, a Bézier curve method, and a subdivision surface procedure to recover and to retain the boundary geometry. We have also developed and demonstrated APIs to allow the geometry kernel to interoperate with other simulation frameworks to enable accurate p ...