Award Data

In the ITER, an international fusion experiment, a magnetically confined cloud of super hot plasma maintains the fusion of tritium and dueterium. The water-cooled diverter cartridge, which removes the charged species generated by the fusion reaction, experiences a harsh environment of rapidly fluctuating temperature. In this environment, the joint between the tungsten plasma facing material on t ...

Soft lithography is an inexpensive and fast method for applying micropatterned structures to both flat and nonplanar substrates. TA&T leverages multiple soft lithographic processing steps to pattern co-fireable refractory metal grid on spinel dome windows for electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering purposes. In addition to the overall curvature of a green ceramic dome, the surface roughness ...

Methods to mitigate contributions of conventional grinding and polishing procedures to transmitted wavefront error that were identified in Phase I will will be applied to full scale JAGM domes. A special emphasis is placed on the development and optimization of deterministic ion beam figuring of spinel and ion beam sputtered spinel coatings. Design modification to existing magnetron sputtering s ...

In this Phase I SBIR project TA&T will use ceramic stereolithography to fabricate integrally cored shells for investment cast turbine airfoils with the goals of demonstrating dimensional accuracy specifications can be met and demonstrating castability of a legacy airfoil. The application target will be advanced high pressure turbine (HPT) airfoils cast in single crystal superalloys, the most diffi ...

Skyward will develop a low-cost, light-weight, and extremely effective fire barrier to protect Navy ships. Skyward’s unique design solution utilizes a lightweight honeycomb structure to support a lightweight intumescent coating. Intumescent materials form a char with excellent insulating properties when exposed to fire’s heat, however the char is fragile and will not adhere well to flat surf ...

The proposed Skyward/ESI wireless fire detector system is a forward-looking concept that utilizes a collection of some commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, applies them to this unique problem, and creates an innovative package addressing the many requirements of this SBIR topic. This system uses electro-optical devices in the form of a combination of photodiodes and thin film thermopiles ...

The proposed Skyward passive dry bay fire extinguishing system is based upon years of experience in research and development and test and evaluation in the passive fire protection area.  The proposed system is completely passive, without power requirements or sensors/detectors.  It offers a lightweight solution, at low cost, and without maintenance requirements under normal aircraft operation. � ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become essential to U.S. national security and a key tool in military operations at home and abroad. As the military dependence GPS technology increases, the success of the mission can be tied to the soldier’s ability to navigate in GPS degraded or denied areas. Direct acquisition of GPS P(Y) code is desirable to military users as it has a higher toleran ...

merging Cognitive Radio (CR) technologies are allowing the development of radios that can “observe,” “orient,” “plan,” “decide,” “learn,” and “act” to adapt the performance of a Software Defined Radio in response to stimuli in the external environment. By applying these CR technologies to enhancing Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) performance, a cognitive GPS UE can b ...

Current generation military GPS User Equipment use significantly more power than a commercial GPS unit. There is a desire to develop operational techniques and lower power devices to increase operational use of hand-held military GPS devices. A lower power alternative to continuously running a SAASM receiver is to use a hybrid solution where the SAASM is only periodically turned on and used to u ...