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The DLA has a need to identify competent and qualified domestic suppliers for mission-critical items that are becoming increasingly scarce. To combat the obsolescence issue, Mentis Sciences Inc. (Mentis) proposes a qualification effort for Bleed Air Ducting for the C-5 Galaxy Air Vehicle (C-5). Mentis understands the importance of supporting the C-5 and maintaining a strong supply chain for compon ...

There is no manufacturing solution available today that can achieve quick-turn production of spaceborne printed circuit boards while adhering to the rigidity requirements of industry standards and surviving the rigors of space launch and flight. To fulfill the production needs of the defense and aerospace industries, this program will develop an additive manufacturing process combining the ruggedn ...

Mentis Sciences, Inc. (Mentis) is teaming with Battelle to scale and commercialize Battelle’s materials and manufacturing methods for affordable, high performance, thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles. The Selective Laser Heating (SLH) process (Figure 1) shows great promise to reduce the cost and lead time associated with carbon-carbon composite structures used as Thermal Protecti ...

C56-40v-272647Next-generation nuclear power plants can provide a large-scale source of environmentally benign power generation while improving safety and minimizing proliferation risks. For best performance, these reactors will require large numbers of uranium alloy fuel slugs produced with metallurgical properties that enable reliable, long-term operation. No method currently exists for high-volu ...

C56-41b-273026Welded stainless steel canisters at near-marine sites that contain spent nuclear fuel (SNF) have been found with salts on their outer surface that can produce an aggressive chemical environment. These conditions could lead to pitting, stress corrosion cracking (SCC), and potential release of radioactive materials. We propose to develop an innovative process and device for mitigating ...

In this program, Micro-Precision Technologies (MPT) will become an Approved Source of three transistors for the PAVE PAWS program, National Stock Number (NSN) 5961-01-053-3316, NSN 5961-01-051-6655, and NSN 5964-01-051-6656. This effort results from the request of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to improve product availability and increase competition for those NSN parts for the Nuclear Enterpr ...

Under the DARPA Assured MicroPatching (AMP) program, Web Sensing has already developed initial proof-of-concept hardware building blocks and automated processes that support precision CAN-bus monitoring and secure patching of ground vehicle control system binaries. Here we seek to impact maintenance crews by development of a new technology portfolio that incorporates a Vehicle Analysis Toolkit - f ...

Today’s approaches to binary patching are largely human-driven and rely on long iterations of human effort to understand functionality in a system. Devices like commercial small unmanned systems (sUAS) are complicated, and functional flows often require coordination (messages transmitted and received) between multiple processors. It is usually simple to explain a functional requirement in human ...

Half of the world’s population lives in urban watersheds. In order to predict how these watersheds will behave under current and future weather dynamics (e.g. if , how and where flooding would occur due to intense rainfall), we need dense measurements of river stage and river velocity. Current instruments are too expensive to deploy in the quantities needed to provide these dense measurements. A ...

Half of the world’s population lives in urban watersheds. In order to predict how these watersheds will behave under current and future weather dynamics (e.g. if , how and where flooding would occur due to intense rainfall), we need dense measurements of river stage and river velocity. Current instruments are too expensive to deploy in the quantities needed to provide these dense measurements. A ...