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The Constructable Platform effort will define a modular, reconfigurable, and expandable architecture for a platform in GEO to provide persistent support infrastructure for multiple, diverse payloads. The platform’s reusability will enable the infrastru...

The Integrated Reconfigurable Intercommunication and Sensing (IRIS) platform will create a paradigm shift in underwater acoustic communications systems and open up a new era of innovation and performance flexibility for the developer and end-user communities. The current model of proprietary and incompatible computational platforms, networking protocols, acoustic signal modulation formats and freq ...

The Integrated Reconfigurable Intercommunication and Sensing (IRIS) platform will create a paradigm shift in underwater acoustic communications systems and open up a new era of innovation and performance flexibility for the developer and end-user communities. The current model of proprietary and incompatible computational platforms, networking protocols, acoustic signal modulation formats and freq ...

The Mobile Reconfigurable Acoustic Network (MoRAN) and associated Scalable Nested Network Optimization Methodology (SN2OM) will enable reliable underwater acoustic communications over a scalable ocean area with latencies on the order of minutes for critical communications messages. The JPAnalytics/BAE/ThayerMahan team combines state- of-the-art communications, environmental and acoustic modeling a ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WILL FOCUS ON THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING OF A LI/TIS(2) RECHARGEABLE CELL THAT WOULD BE USED IN THE BA5590/U CONFIGURATION. DESIGN TRADE-OFFS SUCH AS RATE CAPABILITY, CYCLE LIFE, CAPACITY AND COST WOULD BE CONSIDERED. TWO DESIGNS WOULD BE CHOSEN. SEVEN CELLS OF EACH WOULD BE BUILT AND TESTED. THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM WOULD BE TO DEMONSTRATE A RECHARGE ...

We propose to develop a revolutionary technological innovation that will significantly increase the efficiency, lifetime and reliability of gas-turbine engines. Despite the tremendous improvements in coating technologies to enable huge increases in operational temperatures, continued advances using conventional, purely materials-science approaches have resulted in diminishing marginal returns in t ...

We propose to develop a revolutionary technological innovation that will significantly increase the efficiency, lifetime and reliability of gas-turbine engines. Despite the tremendous improvements in coating technologies to enable huge increases in operational temperatures, continued advances using conventional, purely materials-science approaches have resulted in diminishing marginal returns in t ...

FOSTER-MILLER PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A LOW COST, LOW THERMAL IMPEDANCE, MODULAR PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY TO MEET THE DOD'S REQUIREMENTS FOR A RUGGED, 3-D PACKAGE. IT IS BASED ON THE ULTRAHIGH DENSITY, LOW COST MULTICHIP PACKAGING (MCP) TECHNOLOGY FOSTER-MILLER IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING FOR DARPA. INDIVIDUAL MULTICHIP UNITS WILL BE STACKED, ASSEMBLED AND INTERCONNECTED TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENT THERMAL, MECHANIC ...

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Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) is the most commonly used thermal insulation material for spacecraft applications due to its low thermal conductivity in vacuum. However, MLI has several problems including thermal shorts, is labor intensive to fabricate and install and its performance is negatively affected when insulating complex shapes; therefore significant improvements are needed in satellite ins ...