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The Tai-Yang Research Company in partnership with the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University proposes to develop a warm-to-cold electrical termination for a cryogenically cooled high temperature superconductor cable. The termination will be optimized for the requirements defined by the Next Generation Integrated Power System. The proposed termination will include a novel met ...

In miniature gas turbines for UAV applications, traditional bearings exhibit a typical lifetime of only 25 hours due to excessive axial loading. Mainstream proposed a passive permanent magnet thrust bearing to alleviate this problem and increase service life to over 1000 hours. Since this type of bearing is non-contacting, it can operate at very high rotational speeds with minimal heat generation ...

Unnecessarily high battlespace fuel consumption degrades operational capability, increases force balance problems, exposes refueling convoys to high risk, and increases operating and support costs. Currently, military shelters are cooled by vapor compression air conditioners powered by diesel electric generators. Diesel generators, which are overwhelmingly used for shelter cooling at forward bases ...

The development of a high-shock data recorder for use in projectile penetration and pyrotechnic environments is critical to understanding the loads that warhead systems are exposed to in tactical applications. Data from recorders mounted inside warheads can be used by researchers to measure loads on the warhead, fuze, and explosive fill components as well as validate analytic and computational mo ...

The Packaged Ontology Certificate Real Time Model (PONC-RTM) Investigation of Phase I developed the concept for extending an enterprise information architecture to make use of PONCs integrated at the datagram level to automate the validation, routing, and control of information that is at the correct and validated security level, appropriate (need to know) for the receiver, and relevant to the gro ...

This Phase II effort will demonstrate a standard method of measuring the high-temperature, inter-laminar tensile (HT-ILT) strength of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs). Jet engines with higher turbine gas temperatures for higher specific thrust and efficiencies require the use of SiC/SiC CMCs with known mechanical properties at high temperature (2300 degrees F). The typically poor ILT strength of ...

The Phase I Contract started 19 June 2009. The effort was to select a representative platform and develop the innovative design concept we proposed. The 7M USN RHIB was selected. The effort resulted in the development of three preliminary designs that we propose for detailed design, construction and evaluation in Phase II. All designs feature a membrane structure comprised of Prisma framed SharkSk ...

Under the Phase II program we will develop and demonstrate a wide band automated handheld sonar acoustic intercept system for divers. The Phase II system will automatically detect and classify active sonar emissions and will alert the diver when threat sonars have been detected. We will provide the diver a bearing to the source transmission and also provide him with a threat zone which must not be ...

Modus Operandi proposes the development of WISER (Wiki for Intelligent Semantic Event Reporting), an innovative semantic wiki framework for alerting warfighters of significant events and changing conditions relevant to their missions. Intelligence analysis of unstructured intelligence, particularly textual reports, is a very time-consuming process. The Marine Corps'S & T Strategic goal for i ...

"The United States Navy is using and/or experimenting with active, coherent and incoherent sources to detect and localize submarines operated throughout the world. As the U.S. Navy continues to develop and employ active sensors and moves into littoralareas occupied by higher densities of marine mammals, adverse environmental impacts are likely to occur. Recently, in a U.S. Department of Commerce ...