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***Please refer to full the full Technical Volume as the paragraphs below a limited in their scope for evaluation.**** TETAC, which is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, is interested in collaborating with Marine Corp and manufacturing stakeholders to define and pursue engineering solutions to modernize the APOB. Our team has direct experience with ordnance and engineering energetic ...

Continuous Fiber 3D (CF3D) manufacturing is a cutting-edge composite manufacturing technology that has the potential to enable higher-performing (e.g., specific stiffness, dimensional stability) and lower-cost (e.g., less material waste, minimized part count, reduced touch labor) structures for future Navy applications. CF3D works by combining dry fiber tows with liquid snap-curing thermoset resi ...

Pitch Aeronautics has developed a unique cyclorotor drone (Astria) optimized for up-close and touch-based robotics, not simply remote sensing. We propose miniaturizing this platform to provide a confined-space inspection drone capable of long-endurance and placement of the Navy's visual and touch-placement non-destructive inspections (NDI) sensors. This platform, Astria-Mini, allows long enduranc ...

Continuous Fiber 3D (CF3D) manufacturing is a cutting-edge composite manufacturing technology that has the potential to enable higher-performing (e.g., specific stiffness, specific strength) and lower-cost (e.g., less material waste, minimized part count, reduced touch labor) structures for future Navy applications. CF3D works by combining dry fiber tows with liquid snap-curing thermoset resin in ...

Our Navy has two critical goals for this project (1) reduction in supply chain risk and (2) need to open additional sources of “fiber” for the Navy’s future needs. Advanced Ceramic Fibers (ACF) will achieve these two goals by setting up a domestic supply chain for manufacture of fiber based yarn(s) made from different discontinuous fiber types including nanofilaments and micron diameter fibe ...

Competitive, national security, and efficiency concerns provide an urgent need for ceramic matrix composite research and development, particularly for use in hypersonic and turbine engine applications. Thermal and mechanically-induced stresses in these structures limit speed, strength, and life-expectancy. Composite performance may be greatly enhanced through the use of novel additives, such as fi ...

The aeronautical and space industries need new technologies in the design and fabrication of 3-Dimensional Ceramic Matrix Composite fasteners for mechanically attaching composite propulsion and structural components to metals, both on, and within, the aerostructure body. Novel fasteners must be able to withstand environmental challenges including extreme temperatures, corrosion (such as the affect ...

The aeronautical and space industries need new technologies in the design and fabrication of 3-Dimensional Ceramic Matrix Composite fasteners for mechanically attaching composite propulsion and structural components to metals both on, and within, the aerostructure body. Novel fasteners must be able to withstand environmental challenges including extreme temperatures, corrosion (such as the affects ...

Sentient proposes to develop a physics-based integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) framework (DigitalClone® Additive) to support the rapid qualification of AM components, including microstructural features, and macro-level fatigue performance. Sentient will apply their extensive experience with the DigitalClone technology to conduct multiscale modeling of AM process and resulting ...

To address the needs of Navy to successfully produce 7000 series aluminum alloy components, Sentient proposes to develop a hybrid additive manufacturing (AM) process for this topic. Hybrid AM use a secondary process (e.g. peening, burnishing) along with primary AM process to tightly control thermal profile and stress evolution locally and globally, resulting enhanced part quality (e.g. negligible ...