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Maintaining a tactical edge in modern warfare will require the ability to repair electronics circuits in harsh military environments utilizing a robust, low-cost, lightweight field repair kit. Integrated circuits (ICs) are widely used in Electronic Warfar

The next wave of revolutionary progress in semiconductor packaging will rely on interconnect methods that offer a distinct manufacturing advantage with a great potential for SWaP-C improvement. SunRay Scientific proposes an electrical interconnect solutio

Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. (PIRT) will team with University of California Irvine (UCI) to develop a room temperature imaging system with detectivity from 3 to 12 μm spanning mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and longwave infrared (LWIR) spectral ranges using non-degenerate two-photon absorption (NTA) for standoff imaging spectroscopy and ranging.  This novel detection strategy captures MWIR/LW ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Jinhui Yan at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University, Professor Dianyun Zhang at Composite Manufacturing and Simulation Center at Purdue University (PU), and Professor Yuri Bazilevs at Brown University, proposes to develop an inte ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. (GEM), along with its team members, Professor Hang Yu at Virginia Tech (VT) and Professor Rajiv Mishra at the University of North Texas (UNT), propose to develop a multiphysics based PSPP (process-structure-property-performance) approach and its associated toolkit for tailoring of additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) repair of aluminum components for impr ...

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. and Professor Jinhui Yan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign propose to develop an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering simulation toolkit for optimal tailoring of gas flow in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and direct energy deposition (DED) to reduce defects (e.g., porosity and spatter) and surface roughness improve quality (e.g., mi ...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) across the US military are tasked with planning and executing no-fail missions within the United States and abroad. To train for these missions, SOF requires highly specialized and mission-contextualized training facilities and equipment where they can conduct crawl-, walk-, run-repetitions to hone their tradecraft before mission execution. For example, the skills ...

The DoD has used satellite communications for many decades now.  Historically, SATCOM used satellites as relays in the sky connecting ground stations.  Communications between distant locations on the ground required bouncing up and down across multiple gr

Flightline workers currently perform foreign object debris (FOD) checks prior to every airfield entry, which may be adversely affected by various external factors. Any missed foreign object (FO) presents a significant hazard to aircraft operating on the a

The Army, and the DoD in general, has a gender casualty survivability gap problem: female casualties have a significantly lower survival rate than male casualties.  Reasons for this gender gap include: training is done largely with male manikins and female abdominal and chest wounds are not identified or treated properly because of hesitancy in exposing these parts of the female body.  The Army ...