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Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. proposes to address thermal management performance shortfalls for 6th generation air platforms by developing a novel heat exchanger technology. Specifically, Makai will develop an ultra-compact thin-foil heat exchanger (TFHX) for air-cooled, two-phase vapor cycle systems. The TFHX will provide at least a 50% improvement in volumetric performance, pressure drops of les ...

Passive Microwave Remote Sensing is currently utilized by AFRL, NASA, NOAA, and others to conduct Earth Science missions, including weather forecasting, early warning systems, and climate studies. Soundings of the atmosphere are conducted near several oxygen and water absorption lines at frequencies of ~20-200 GHz to determine key parameters of the atmospheric state, including temperature and humi ...

As a new generation of Airmen enter the war-fighting space, their expectations for how technology should support them with accomplishing their missions and the actual technology that is made available to them has never been further apart. To address this problem, the velocity and culture in which technology is adopted and put in the hands of Airmen needs to change. Utilizing an approach that lever ...

The Air Force’s ability to efficiently and effectively supply airmen with the most useful and usable equipment is central to its core mission of national defense. Many airmen, however, particularly women, face obstacles to acquiring and using the equipment that they personally need to train and combat at the highest levels of performance. Our objective is to translate the product vision tha ...

Corvid Technologies is pleased to offer this Phase II proposal in response to Army SBIR topic A17-010, “Ballistic Missile Defense Weather Management.” In the proposed effort, we will continue to develop Corvid’s computational capability for shock layer distortion due to hydrometeor impact on high-speed missile systems, demonstrated during our Phase I program. We will also formulate and execu ...

Vadum will design and demonstrate Hearing Protection and Active Communication (HPAC) system. The HPAC system will provide clear and reliable audio communication from the handler to the canine, and protect canine hearing from loud external sounds. The HPAC system will enhance the capabilities of the working dog and handler team. The headset will preserve canine situational awareness of ambient envi ...

Vadum will develop a Scalable Integrated Magnetic Sensing System (SIMSS) that detects and classifies solid explosive substances with up to 10 inches of standoff in buried or concealed non-metallic housings. The low-SWaP 100W design represents the first truly portable NQR-based sensor in the market. The RF sensor identifies solid nitrogen-based explosives (ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodiu ...

The proposed Sequential Phase II proposal builds on the parent Phase II project (SBIR Topic #A11-044; Proposal #A2-4962; Contract #W911SR-12-C-0045) was to develop and build a long-wave infrared (LWIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) spectrometer operating in the 8-10.5 micron range, specifically for passive detection of liquid contaminants on surfaces. The overarching goal of the project was to devel ...

The U.S. Army has a requirement for a shaped charge warhead that can maintain its penetration capability while spinning. The current solution, a linear fluted liner, is optimal over a narrow band of spin rates compared to the span of rates experienced by a typical spin-stabilized munition over its effective range. To increase performance on target, a solution that is effective over a larger range ...

Dynamic Collaborative Visualization Ecosystem (DynaCoVE) is a new visualization tool that will support a data-centric, user-centric, visualization algorithm and systems agnostic visualization. It is a visualization software that will allow the user to generate visualization from the data and display it on any of the display systems available in the visualization ecosystem for knowledge discovery a ...