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Touchstone Research Laboratory and its partner, Alliant Aerospace Company (ATK), propose to investigate the utilization of lightweight carbon foam cores in composite load-bearing structures. CFOAMr has the potential to be a revolutionary material inaerospace structures, significantly reducing costs and improving mission capabilities. Aluminum Honeycomb is the targeted material for replacement. The ...

Construction of aerospace structures such as aircraft fuselages, missile surfaces, rocket motors, and satellites is moving to carbon fiber-reinforced thermoset and thermoplastic resins, resulting in higher strength-to-weight ratio and becoming less subjectto corrosion and fatigue. Composite production methods replace more difficult techniques which required precise surfaces and an exact fit of mat ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses the topic of Ballistic Missile Systems Innovative Propulsion Products, MDA03-055. The use of carbon foam as a liner and/or nozzle material with desirable structural and thermal conductivityproperties will be investigated. CFOAMr has the potential to be a revolutionary material in liner and nozzle structures, significantly reducing ...

The Missile Defense Agency has a need for innovative products that demonstrate advances in phased array radar technologies that will support existing Missile Defense (MD), and other radar system architectures. This effort will identify and developrevolutionary radar performance and cost enhancements through the analysis, design, and conduct of proof-of-principal demonstrations of advanced radar te ...

Control and guidance of modern missiles requires control signals from the guidance system be passed to the nozzle gimbal and other control surfaces. Because the guidance system and payload are typically located in the missile nose cone, a communicationsbus must run the length of the missile casing. Often this bus is a conduit within the wound case, through which copper cables are run. The current ...

The development of high energy storage systems with reduced size and weight are important for tactical and strategic pulsed power applications such as: electric armor, electric guns, high power microwave sources and ballistic missile applications. Thedielectric energy storage density of pulsed power materials must be increased to provide feasibility or improve performance of these systems.Capabil ...

The development of high energy storage systems with reduced size and weight are important for tactical and strategic pulsed power applications such as: electric armor, electric guns, high power microwave sources and ballistic missile applications. Thedielectric energy storage density of pulsed power materials must be increased to provide feasibility or improve performance of these systems.Capabil ...

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Sapphire has been the dominant infrared transparent material for quite some time, and polycrystalline materials such as, magnesium fluoride, aluminum oxynitride and yttrium oxide, have been used to a limited extent when the performance criteria have beenless stringent. Polycrystalline and transparent oxide ceramics that have a cubic crystal structure offer an opportunity as a superior replacement ...

The current focal plane array (FPA) technology cannot detect extremely weak image and spectral photon signals buried in strong background (Is / Ib < 10 -7 ~ 10 -4), the detection of which is, however, crucial for missile defense systems. The lock-inamplifier [1] has been playing major roles in the detection of extremely weak photon signals. However, it costs a few thousand dollars and works onl ...