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Modern military and commercial gas turbine engines are subject to increased durability, performance, and safety issues when operating in austere environments where significant quantities of sand, volcanic ash and dust are present and can be ingested into the engines. These environments include desert regions, as well as, previously active/currently active volcanic areas. Military studies of turbin ...

Hypres is pleased to submit this proposal to continue its Phase II SBIR program and complete the development of a combat-area portable digital MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) system capable of high-resolution Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) diagnosis in field hospitals. This sequential Phase IIc SBIR program will produce and demonstrate a near production ready state-of-the-art portable MRI system at ...

Hardware design today bears similarities to software design. Often vendors buy and integrate code acquired from third-party organizations into their designs, especially in embedded/system-on-chip designs. Currently, there is no way to determine if third-party designs have built-in backdoors that can compromise security after deployment. We propose to investigate techniques to detect backdoors in t ...

System testing of an F/A-18 ACM with direct drop in replacement foil bearings was conducted demonstrating that MiTis 4th generation compliant foil bearings operating under normal conditions experienced lower temperatures than the OEM bearings and with lower turbine pressure and flow required to reach the same speed condition. In a dust environment, MiTis compliant foil bearings appeared unaffected ...

The proposed project covers manufacturing improvements in the production of specific high volume batteries of interest to DLA as specified in their SBIR Proposal Submission Request noted above, with the exception of the PRC-154 and PLM-4 Batteries. Bren-Tronics proposes to go directly to Phase II because we have already demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed manufacturing improvements on the ...

Warfighters increasingly rely on mobile devices for voice communication, access to information, and execution of apps that aid them in their tasks. However, untrustworthy applications and risky online behaviors can compromise the mobile device. To be secure and useful, a device must be both multi-level secure and able to access secure services. Current mobile device management solutions cannot mee ...

GrammaTech proposes Panorama, an architecture recovery platform for embedded binary software that:- Identifies component boundaries and data flows between components.- Helps determine critical, security-relevant locations in the software.- Provides the ability to drill down into individual components to inspect critical access points for flaws.To be an effective analysis platform for the auditor, ...

Ballistic systems operate in flow regimes characterized by high speeds, temperatures and pressures, with reacting multiphase, multi-species fluids and fluid-structure interactions. Substantial progress has been made on methods to simulate the component physics. However, there are technical gaps remaining related to tracking the interacting physical components throughout a simulation. This project ...

As critical embedded systems age or their requirements shift, it is imperative that the firmware running these installed systems can be upgraded and extended long into the future. Yet the tremendous variety of embedded system architectures currently in use makes it difficult for a developer to maintain expertise across many devices. GrammaTech proposes SCALPEL, a tool for rewriting embedded firmwa ...

Due to high power density and durability, gas turbines provide significant benefits in terms of efficiency and performance that in recent years, marine gas turbines have been deployed in commercial and cruise ships. Marine gas turbine technologies are essentially extensions of aero-gas turbine technology. Aero, land and marine engines have been used successfully for decades, recently there have be ...