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60177 Polymer electrolytes that promote lithium ion activity are needed to develop advanced batteries for high power or high energy storage. Polymers should be thin and flexible with glass transition below -70¿C and ionic conductivity >10-3 S/cm. In this project, new carbonate side chains will be introduced into the carbonate-siloxane polymer matrix to increase the ionic conductivity to 1 ...

Engineered Plastic Designs, Inc., supported by CSA Engineering, Inc. proposes todevelop clean-room containerization concepts for minimizing exposure of both thesecondary spacecraft and the full-up payload module to damaging shock, vibration,and temperature extremes resulting during ground transportation, while providing anefficient, safe means for integrating each secondary spacecraft with the ada ...

Forecast skills of ionospheric operational models are negatively affected by the complexity of the underlying physical system and the necessity to specify a number of poorly known parameters. Hence these forecast models, including the PRISM used by the AirForce, are usually empirical, rather than the first-principles models. In addition, until recently ionospheric research suffered from lack and s ...

65149 Currently, no technology exists for the direct, small scale, production of enriched air with oxygen concentrations of 40-70%. This project will develop surface selective membrane technology to economically produce enriched air for markets such as fuel processing for fuel cells and medical applications. The technology relies on the controlled surface modification of inorganic microporous ...

DoD and commercial customers are designing future missions that require the rapid launch and deployment of an increasing number of single and multi-spacecraft constellations. To meet consumer market demands, these missions also require drastic reductionsin life cycle costs. Conventional methods of spacecraft structural support for launch, command and data handling, thermal management and propuls ...

The Air Force is developing the next generation of small satellites that will fly in close formation and weigh no more than 100 kilograms. The spacecraft are dramatically smaller than conventional vehicles and are designed to test new radiation-protectedmicroelectronics and demonstrate programmed, autonomous decision-making capabilities. In order to enable the use of next generation microelectro ...

Existing active isolation systems are complex, large, expensive, and provide only modest performance improvements relative to less-expensive passive isolation systems.Therefore active isolation systems have only been used in programs that have problemssevere enough to warrant these costs. When they are used, available isolation systems provide less than 10 dB performance improvements relative to ...

Existing active isolation systems are complex, large, expensive, and provide only modest performance improvements relative to less-expensive passive isolation systems.Therefore active isolation systems have only been used in programs that have problemssevere enough to warrant these costs. When they are used, available isolation systems provide less than 10 dB performance improvements relative to ...

Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) systems and teams provide the capabilities for processing, analyzing and disseminating imagery intelligence when and where it is needed. The Air Force has identified the need for methods and toolsto support and enhance the human performance component of TPED operations.Micro Analysis & Design, Inc. (MA&D) proposes to team with The Univers ...

Micro Analysis & Design, Inc. (MA&D) proposes to develop methods and tools that will support competency-based performance assessment and training analysis. The proposed tool set will integrate automated and manual strategies for capturing performanceinformation in order to evaluate individual and team warfighting competencies that are exercised using Distributed Mission Training simulation method ...