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The overall goal of this effort is to support high-power SmallSats by maturing resilient thermal control technologies. Technologies include both Advanced Thermal Model (ATM) software and Resilient Thermal Control (RTC) hardware. The ATM software utilizes a reduced-order modeling (ROM) approach to greatly reduce thermal modeling overhead. New features will be added to the ATM software to enhance it ...

Applied Technology Associates (ATA) proposes a cost-effective solution by developing a robust effective military position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capability with the addition of a military-unique augmentation to GPS.The Military PNT Augmentation (MPNTA) Phase II effort will include the use of Electronic Warfare (EW) techniques (frequency hopping, frequency shift from GPS, wartime reserve, et ...

The objective of the air riding thrust balance system is to limit the axial displacement of the rotor relative to the stator.By limiting the axial displacement between rotor and stator the force on the foil bearing can be limited such that it will not be damaged under high maneuver loads or landing loads.A force balance system is created by using a high pressure source air from compressor discharg ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force is facing severe budget cuts which force the need to cut operating costs of aircraft and manpower. One way to do this is to increase reliability of systems and components which would reduce maintenance and increase operational availability, which reduces the number of aircraft needed to complete missions. The Air Force desires a new prognostic health management (PHM) appro ...

In Phase I MER demonstrated the superior performance and power-to-weight ratios of the VS-Rotary engine. In Phase II MER will team with the University of Arizona who will provide engine modeling, simulation, and analysis along with advanced precision machining and fabrication. MER will also team with NCE of Tucson to provide test and systems integration development of the engine to the applicatio ...

This is a follow-on SBIR Phase II as a result of a fully executed SBIR Technology Transition Plan to transition MSI’s COgnitive Stochastic MOdeling System (COSMOS) in a microsystem hardware to increase reliability of systems and components which would reduce maintenance and increase operational availability, which reduces the number of aircraft needed to complete missions. ACC and the AFRL ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the project is to develop and deliver an integrated cooling, heating, and power system that operates from multiple energy sources can be easily incorporated onto a building similar to a standard air conditioning system. The objective of the project is to build a prototype system that will demonstrate significant reduction in the energy used by a building for heating and ...

ABSTRACT: Coherent imaging systems have the capability to provide high-resolution 3D imagery for target identification at stand-off ranges. These systems require relatively short pulse width, transform-limited linewidth pulsed lasers with high pulse energy to illuminate the target of interest. Here we proposed to demonstrate and build near 1550nm single frequency fiber laser with pulse energy of ...

Small satellites have proven capable and cost effective, and innovative payloads and technologies will expand the mission space that CubeSats can support. ATA proposes to build a CubeSat-sized laser communications prototype payload, adapting high photon efficiency optical communications techniques to achieve data transfer rates up to 100 mega-bits per second (Mbps) with the small apertures require ...

The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) is being developed by the United States Special Operations Command (USSCOM). Warfighters operating in hot regions while wearing encapsulating Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will require a Compact and Quiet Microclimate Cooling System (CQ-MCS) to protect the suit operators from heat stress. RINI Technologies has developed a 1 liter sized man-por ...