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Accurate prediction heat transfer in gas turbine components subject to cooling requires high fidelity modeling of heat transfer in the presence of high Reynolds number turbulent flow. The cooling internal to the blades results in sustained temperature gradients within the structural parts, from low temperature in the interior of the structure to increasingly higher temperature closer to the surfac ...

The Naval Air Technical Data and Engineering Service Center (NATEC) maintains extensive, separate data sets for logistics and engineering in multiple formats which would be more valuable if the data could be integrated and shared to a greater degree.AVNIK Defense Solutions, Inc. proposes, with our subcontract team members Instrumental Sciences, Inc. (ISI) and Engenix, a Concurrent Engineering Logi ...

The requirements for thermal management on tactical aircraft systems have reached a level at which integrated system design must be considered early in the aircraft design process. An integrated propulsion, power and thermal modeling and simulation design approach is necessary for reduced size, weight and power requirements. At the same time, there is an urgent need for capabilities that enable an ...

Current mission planning systems allow strike planners and operations centers to perform time-sensitive strike planning, execution monitoring, and validate mission effects using XML-based tools that visualize time critical attack plan and track plan status vs. execution. In this proposed STTR Phase I design for the Next Generation Navy Mission Planning (NGNMPS) system, we will identify expanded op ...

The overall goal of the project is to develop a mathematically rigorous multi-fidelity surrogate modeling (MFSM) and data analytics tool to fuse data from sources of varying facility (computations and flight tests) for accurate aircraft structural buffet load prediction. The salient aspects of the proposed solution are: (1) an adaptive framework to systematically tackle fusion and consolidation of ...

The growing proliferation of unmanned air and surface vehicles poses a potential tactical threat to current naval platforms. This threat continues to grow as the technology needed to develop such vehicles in vast numbers becomes easier for both state and non-state actors. The subsequent increase in the number of potential air and surface targets tracked and engaged in a tactical environment, where ...

In this research effort, GTD Unlimited will develop a toolset that leverages machine learning and analytics to analyze E-2D’s system maintenance with Automated Logistics Environment (ALE) data collected across the fleet to design and develop improved maintenance procedures that will improve readiness. GTD will determine key performance metrics of the platform that are of value to the maintainer, ...

Data stream analytics have been used in industry for a number of years to solve various logistical and other problems using on-the-fly monitoring, data-mining, and analysis of ongoing information streams. Recent advances in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-speed parallel computing architectures may now provide the ability to execute such data-stream analysis algorithms in real time. U.S. ...

With the advent of the Navy’s newest classes of all-electric vessels, the interdependence and functional correlation of the power plant with other mission-critical ship systems such as integrated cooling, weapons, navigation, air surveillance, and IT control network systems, maintaining optimal oversight and control of power distribution aboard ship becomes increasingly challenging. As the opera ...

There is currently no autonomous pallet loading/unloading solution for full or half size 463L Military pallets. In austere environments such as those encountered at forward operating bases (FOB) and further forward, this is a significant problem. With no means of autonomously positioning or retrieving supplies at the aircraft, re-tasking fire teams and other personnel critical to the fight and gen ...