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The Navy desires to reduce the weight of its current generation of metal structured aircraft ejection seats by 20 to 30 percent. KCI, with its team partner Northrop Grumman Corporation, will develop at least three differnt seat concepts during Phase I. Each alternative will investigate a particular cost, weight and performance corner of the ejection seat design envelop. Seats will be designed w ...

LIGHT METAL TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. proposes to develop a novel, alternative method to create reflective surfaces to aircrew helmets and overcome the existing disadvantages of the reflective sheeting. Our proposed method uses individual randomly oriented microspheres (glass spheres with a size range of 15 - 30 micrometers in diameter), partially coated with a reflecting surface of aluminum, and incorp ...

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The Li/CuCl2/ inorganic electrolyte system can presently deliver 266 W/kg and 181 Whr/kg for continuous discharge at up to 10 MA/CM2 for over 200 deep cycles. Such performance is unmatched by any other known rechargeable battery system.This project will evaluate the performance of Li/CUC12 cells with : 0.38mm thick CUC12 electrodes at 10.0 mA/CM2 which would provide 20 minutes or more of operation ...

Fluxgate magnetometers, introduced in the 1930's, continue to be used in a variety of applications, such as magnetic air-borne detection, search and surveillance operations, nondestructive testing of materials, palaeomagnetism, and exploration of magnetic fields in space. However, existing magnetic sensors have performance limits that do not meet advanced undersea weapons requirements, for exampl ...

Under separate Navy funding, MSI has developed a low cost injection molding process for piezocomposite fabrication that has made these innovative materials available for the first time in manufacturing quantities. 1-3 type piezoelectric ceramic/polymer composites have demonstrated performance advantages in Navy sensor and actuator applications, and their benefits in commercial acoustic imaging app ...

Under separate Navy funding, MSI has developed a low cost injection molding process for piezocomposite fabrication that has made these innovative materials available for the first time in manufacturing quantities. MSI has used this technology to make large area 1-3 type piezoelectric ceramic/polymer composite actuator panels for use in undersea sensing, actuation, and acoustic imaging. In one pr ...

Infrared windows on high speed ship launched missiles, such as Standard Missile 2 Block 4A, are subject to high thermally induced stresses from aerodynamic heating. This program will seek to develop infrared window materials with improved thermal shock resistance over sapphire and without degrading the optical transparency. Phase I of this program will investigate several approaches includi ...