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ABSTRACT: This proposed SBIR will demonstrate the feasibility of delivering a revolutionary integrated inspection station for engine airfoils that uses the same advanced eddy current technology (called the JENTEK MWM-Array) to provide BOTH reliable crack detection and dimensional analysis for chord width and tip wear. By utilizing the same flexible and easily adaptable sensing technology, a low c ...

ABSTRACT: Boston Engineering proposes the development a flexible motor control system (FlexMC) that allows UAV system developers to rapidly develop custom motor control algorithms used for propulsion systems. This system can easily be applied to developers of other unmanned systems as well as other industries where developers can focus on the system level control design and leverage the advanced ...

ABSTRACT: Gamma and neutron radiation detectors remain bulky, expensive, and sensitive to many environmental conditions. Making the radiation sensors compact, resilient, and more efficient are significant goals to the United States (US) civilian and defense forces for applications in areas of first responder, environmental remediation, prevention of nuclear contraband proliferation, and in general ...

ABSTRACT: Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to determine the high-temperature properties of thermal protection system materials and structural materials utilized in the development, design, fabrication and testing of hypersonic vehicles. Test vehicle flights aimed at understanding the structural integrity of hypersonic demonstrators have been performed from about Mach 5 to 20, but these vehic ...

ABSTRACT: The PSI Team will develop highly innovative hypersonic vehicle ceramic matrix composite (CMC) structures to significantly advance the state-of-the-art aeroshells that meet the flight requirements of hypersonic vehicles currently under design. The PSI focus is to mature and demonstrate the technologies necessary to manufacture a fully integrated, structurally efficient loadbearing, cost ...

ABSTRACT:Metallic additive manufacturing (AM) processes offer the potential to fabricate components with spatial modulation of both processing conditions and chemistry. However, existing CAD tools do not have the capability to acquire and manage the necessary spatially varying process data. FTLs framework manages the data associated with both the AM geometry and process, and provides capabilities ...

ABSTRACT: The United States Air Force has over 3000 active combat aircraft in operation. Maintenance of these aircraft is an integral part in keeping the fleet operational. Defects greatly impact the stability and integrity of the aircraft and can directly affect its performance. Since most of these defects and fractures occur beneath the skin on the plane, visual inspection is insufficient. Eddy ...

ABSTRACT: Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) propose to design an airborne system for characterizing long range profiles of the state of optical turbulence in the atmosphere. This system will exploit GTRIs differential image motion (DIM) LIDAR technique for measuring profiles of the refractive index structure characteristic as well as scintillation ana ...

ABSTRACT: Systems & Technology Research together with our teammates, Wright State University and Prof. Robert Nowak of University of Wisconsin proposes to develop novel signal processing algorithms for airborne passive Synthetic Aperture Radar. In phase 2, our team will enhance the fusion algorithms and improve the fidelity of the simulation environment used for performance evaluation developed i ...

ABSTRACT:Busek Co. Inc. proposes to develop a high power, low-mass Hall effect thruster.The baseline thruster is sized at nominally 8kW power level.A specific feature to be implemented includes the use of SmCo permanent magnets.The goal of the effort is to reduce thruster specific mass to 60%.In Phase I Busek evaluated an existing permanent magnet thruster to develop the theoretical and experiment ...