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Through this MDA Phase I STTR program, NanoSonic shall work with the high energy laboratory at Penn State and with input from a major US integrator of hypersonic vehicles to develop improved high temperature radome materials for uncooled aerodynamic reentry and hypersonic vehicles. Through prior work, NanoSonic has developed and demonstrated high temperature materials with good thermal insulating ...

The harsh environment posed by hypersonic flight makes antenna design challenging due to extreme temperature exposure coupled with often competing mechanical/aero and RF performance requirements. FIRST RF proposes an advancement to its numerous conformal antenna technologies utilizing additive manufacturing of dielectric materials. This approach will decouple the competing RF and mechanical requir ...

NanoSonic will work with Penn State to develop inexpensive automated manufacturing processes for the production of ceramic matrix composite thermal protective system materials with high temperature thermal performance and high thermal insulation propertiesWe will fabricate materials using automated robotic production methods, and perform testing, including high energy irradiation at Penn State’s ...

Estes Energetics and Battelle Memorial Institute will apply a fast, affordable manufacturing technology—proven to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 4—that manufactures a layer of carbon-carbon directly on composite structures without requiring use of an autoclave or densification process holds, resulting in reduced manufacturing time while improving com ...

The innovation proposed here is a novel carbon-carbon composite (CCC) manufacturing method based on polymer infusion and polymerization (PIP) using a novel precursor polymer with exceptionally high char yields. This results in a material that has the promise of excellent quality and mechanical properties, while offering the breakthrough advantages of (1) greatly reduced or eliminated need for back ...

Food irradiation technology has attracted more attention in the past decade given that it can provide a sustainable solution on how to address pathogen contamination in food. X-ray irradiation has several advantages compared to other irradiation technologies including superior penetrating quality compared to electron beams, and considerably larger dose rate compared to gamma rays. However, the low ...

Attollo proposes to develop a GeSn / Si photodiode and tune the epitaxial layers for eSWIR sensitivity in partnership with Prof. Jack Ma (U. Wisc.) and Dr. Amy Liu (IQE) to realize 2.Xµm eSWIR detectors that can be monolithically integrated with Silicon CMOS wafers, and ultimately incorporated into low SWaP-C cameras

Battlespace awareness within the space domain is a critical foundation for planning appropriate courses of action, responding to threats, protecting vulnerable assets, and preparing contingency plans. The ability to maintain flexible deterrent options in various situations relies upon maintaining an accurate picture of (1) what is happening now, and (2) what could happen in the future. Because the ...

In response to the DoD STTR 2022.D Solicitation for the Air Force Phase I Program, topic SF22D-T001, Advanced Space, LLC, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) propose to design and develop hard and soft data techniques to characterize and identify R

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is knowledge of all aspects of space related to operations. As the foundation for space control, SSA encompasses intelligence on adversary space operations; surveillance of all space objects and activities; detailed recon