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In the past several years, a number of large-scale prototype electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft have been flight tested by aircraft manufacturers to achieve their commercial product development goals for the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market. Owing to intellectual property and propriety information concerns, however, relatively few large-scale eVTOL aircraft have been flight t ...

NASA manages $40B in facility assets with an inventory of more than 5,000 facilities. Over 83% of this infrastructure is beyond its design life, and the agency faces a deferred maintenance backlog of $2.77B. An effective method to address this challenge and achieve digital transformation is through Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods.nbsp;Duri ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of a bandwidth tailored pump source for high purity photon pair generation. Spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate high purity photon pairs at wavelengths of interest to NASA and the broader scientific community. However, these sources are highly dependent on pulsed pump laser parameters. Traditional pulsed laser sources are la ...

Mesh generation for wall-modeled large eddy simulations (WMLES) based CFD simulations represents a critical area of research as there are significant challenges which must be overcome before this technology can be adopted for widespread use.nbsp; Two critical challenges associated with these scale-resolving simulations is mesh size and mesh quality.nbsp; Mesh size represents a critical challenge a ...

This Phase II project aims to prototype a novel technology that can advance the state-of-the-art in high performance space computing.nbsp; The base computer technology, called ldquo;RadPCrdquo;, brings together a suite of fault recovery mechanisms that enable Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to operate reliably in the presence of space radiation that causes si ...

This project proposes a coprocessor companion to future radiation-hardened processors that can boost performance using commercial Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). nbsp;This project will investigate the feasibility of using dynamically reconfigurable coprocessing circuitry within a proven fault-tolerant architecture known as RadPC.nbsp; The RadPC architecture has been matured through NASA-fun ...

Orbital Cryogenics is proposing to develop a new-type of integrated-pilot linear pneumatic valve, capable of providing long-life control of cryogenic liquids and associated gasses, while meeting the low-weight requirements of flight hardware. The valve will have a thermally isolated integrated pilot, with provisions for electrical pilot heat if required. The valve inlet/outlet can be any of severa ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of key photonic components for use in high performance quantum sensors and clocks. AdvR proposes to develop very high performance phase and amplitude modulators for use at visible and ultra-violet wavelengths. The proposed innovation utilizes high performance, damage resistant optical waveguides with high speed traveling wave electrodes to provide int ...

Thermal batteries are single discharge reserve batteries that provide very long shelf life, minimal self-discharge, wide storage temperature range, fast activation under sudden power demand, and also wide range of temperature operating conditions. Such un

Aircraft Availability (AA) is a chief concern for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC).This issue was stressed by Lt. Gen. Shaun Morris, Commander of AFLCMC, in his address at the Robins AFB Requirements Symposium in March 2023. He expresse