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Impact Technologies, LLC, in collaboration with Engineering Reliability Software Group, LLC (ESRG), propose development of a widely applicable anomaly detection and sensor/data health assessment software product in support of condition based maintenance. The technology is innovative in that it uses a data-driven modeling methodology which has generic application to both high and low bandwidth sign ...

The challenge has been set to meet Navy’s renewable fuel standard using advanced biofuels. Microalgae, along with other future fuel crops, must be aggressively developed now, not later. Recent dramatic demonstrations with algae based biodiesel and biojet show that it is no longer a question of algae being suitable as a natural source of oils that can be refined to produce biofuels. Rather, it is ...

Gear tooth surface fatigue (pitting) is common precursor failure mode that leads to excessive gear vibration, liberation of debris particles that damage ancillary components (e.g. bearings), and serves as crack initiation sites that lead to eventual catastrophic tooth failure. Current gearbox life estimation techniques commonly underplay the significance of gear tooth surface fatigue due to the co ...

It is proposed to initiate a research program to design and manufacture a composite housing gear system for the next generation of NAVY F/A-18 and F-35 aircrafts. The present systems use steel housing which lack the low weight requirements for the design of the Wing Fold Transmission systems. The proposed effort relies on replacing the current steel made Ring Gear Housing System with the Carbon Re ...

Navy free-electron laser (FEL) weapon systems require robust long-lived cathodes for the electron injector. The cathodes must deliver very high bunch charge in extremely short time at high repetition rates. AES has been working with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) through a Phase I NAVY SBIR and a JTO contract to develop manufacturing and physics requirements with a goal of fabricating a diam ...

In the proposed Phase II program, the methods developed and implemented during Phase I research will be fully integrated within a common Bayesian in situ learning framework. We have developed several Bayesian classifiers, to which we will apply label acquisition and label confidence techniques. Additionally, we will extend the in situ learning framework to include multi-task learning. Previously c ...

The Navy and other DoD components require a media-free, environmentally friendly, rapid, and non-destructive method to remove coatings applied on and aboard Navy ships. Atmospheric Plasma Solutions Inc. (APS) has developed an atmospheric plasma process to accomplish this goal. Current processes for the removal of coatings for shipboard applications are expensive, require massive amounts of energy, ...

Autonomous Data Fusion is an essential technology to support the non-traditional surveillance systems that employ small autonomous systems communicating with each other – forming a distributed sensor network. Based on the Phase I achievements, Impact Technologies in collaboration with Wright State University, Virginia Tech and Northrop Grumman, proposes to further develop, mature and demonstrate ...

This SBIR program specifically focuses in on innovative approaches to overcome the limitations associated with both the non-conformity of the rigid steel consolidation roller as well as building upon the individual tow control functionality of thermoplastic processing heads. Our main objective within the Phase I portion of the program was to develop and demonstrate at a high level, an innovative m ...

Impact Technologies, LLC proposes to further develop and demonstrate an automated knowledge discovery and reliability analysis tool for the F414 engine. The work is based on available data in NAVY databases such as DECKPLATE or DECKETR or potentially the Maintenance Data Warehouse (MDW) maintained by GE. Knowledge discovery techniques will be applied to maintenance records. Using that knowledge, i ...