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The U.S. Air Force has successfully introduced the C-17 Globemaster III into its inventory. This modern airlift aircraft is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and cargo to main operating bases, or directly to forward deployment areas. Thedesign of this aircraft lets it operate on small, austere airfields as short as 3,000 feet and as narrow as 90 feet. Unfortunately, foreign object deb ...

Thermal barrier coatings are used to protect metallic alloys from corrosive and ablative effects of high temperature environments. Their utility has been proven in jet and automotive engines with demonstrated improvements in performance and fuel economy.Few materials can withstand long term exposure to the inside of a jet engine, and so their construction tends to be limited to super alloys, whic ...

Rapid growth in the performance and capabilities of thermography, and the increased use of composite materials in the construction and repair of military and commercial aircraft, has strongly positioned it as a viable NDI technique. In Phase I, ThermalWave Imaging, Inc. and UD-CCM propose to develop an AC coupled, non-contact Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) technique that can evaluate 3-D state o ...

Rapid growth in the performance and capabilities of pulsed thermography, and the increased use of composite materials in the construction and repair of military and commercial aircraft, has strongly positioned it as a viable NDI technique. Thistechnology, as it currently stands, is a widely accepted rapid, non-contact, wide-area inspection tool. In Phase I of this program, Thermal Wave Imaging, ...

Advance millimeter wave (MMW) transceivers are needed to further enhance the U.S. military current and future communication, detection and guidance systems. TLC will develop and demonstrate a unique low-cost, wire-bond-free, 70-94 GHz W-band antennaintegrated MMIC transceiver that also meet commercial performance, low price, and simplicity requirements. This transceiver will also provide excelle ...

Current military and commercial communication systems at lower frequencies experience spectrum crowding, and does not have wide bandwidths needed for high data rates. Broadband Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) are crucial components in any receiver system.Although a wide variety of LNAs are currently available in the frequency bands below 50 GHz, little development has occurred in the 49 to 52 GHz range ...

Singlemode fiber optic systems offer great potential to improve sensing, multiplexing, and control systems for aerospace vehicles compared with multimode-based fiber optic systems. The primary issue preventing greater deployment of singlemode is theconnectors. Current technology was developed for telecom and will not meet the demands of aerospace. The biggest problem is getting a singlemode con ...

Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc. is developing a technology that can be applied to the needs of the DMT visual system requirements. Uni-Pixel is developing a patented display technology (Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter - TMOS) that will provide both enhancedproperties that far surpass current display technology as well as unique properties that allow its custom application to the DMT visual requirements ...

The proposed program will test the feasibility and key concepts towards the fabrication of a full-scale flexible thin film film photovoltaic blanket. In Phase I, the full size blanket will not be built. That will be undertaken in Phase II. Phase I willfocus on the development and validity testing of the module coupon design, and the integration of the module coupons to fabricate a subscale phot ...

WPI proposes to design an Embedded Locator and Breaker (ELAB) capable of (1) detecting arc faults and damaged wire on an aircraft, (2) interrupting the circuit in the event of an impending fault, and (3) communicating the status externally. Using newalgorithms for signal reflectometry with classification based on Artificial Neural Networks, ELAB will detect faults in all forms of cable within an a ...