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ABSTRACT: SURVICE Engineering is proposing the development of a non-destructive in-situ inspection system based upon proven and commercially available technologies. The technique will be validated through detailed testing, simulation, and analysis in the Phase I effort, with full-scale development and installation in an existing prepreg line in the Phase II effort. BENEFIT: The proposed approa ...

ABSTRACT: SURVICE Engineering is proposing the development of specialized tooling to provide the installer real-time feedback of proper fastener installation. The proposed design measures the fastener as-installed and provides the user with immediate visual feedback to verify proper fastener installation has been achieved, saving time by doing the QC inspection during installation. The system c ...

ABSTRACT: Minimally operating or non-operating systems provide little or no opportunity for measuring functional parameters as they degrade, reducing visibility into the condition of system reliability. The negative effects of this phenomenon are seen to a greater degree in systems that are required to operate once with near-perfect reliability following a period of prolonged dormancy. Cruise m ...

ABSTRACT: The SURVICE Engineering Team proposes development of a fast-running engineering-level fluid dynamics model to quantify and characterize the fuel spurt and droplet formation resulting from ballistic penetration into an aircraft fuel tank. The ultimate goal places emphasis on a fast running solution that can allow multiple evaluations rather than a single event answer. This engineering l ...

ABSTRACT: As the geometry of test articles becomes more complex the demand for evolving instrumentation to make global, quantitative surface pressure and temperature measurements across a diverse spectrum of test environments continues to increase. Traditionally, pressure sensitive coatings called pressure sensitive paints (PSPs) have been oxygen sensors. The need for a polymeric pressure sensi ...

ABSTRACT: The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides spaced-based Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) to users anywhere on the earth where unobstructed line of sight to at least four GPS satellites is available. GPS is one of the most useful and widely proliferated technologies for both commercial and military users. Aggressor nations understand that GPS technology plays a key role in all U.S ...

The expanding use of traditional transparent armor (TA) windows in smaller and lighter vehicles to enhance warfighter safety highlights the necessity to find lighter weight solutions to minimize vehicle performance degradation. While ultra lightweight TA solutions are available using a transparent polycrystalline material such as Spinel, the cost benefit is not easily realized on many smaller pla ...

Robotic Research, LLC proposes Safe Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Installations (SAUVI) as a comprehensive surveillance tool suite that will be used for real-time persistent surveillance needs, historical analysis of the site, and post incident discovery and tracking tool. This proposal is designed to leverage Robotic Research, LLC"s (RR) intimate knowledge of robotic systems and to exploit rob ...

Technology Service Corporation (TSC) proposes to investigate and validate innovative techniques including one that was successfully applied to mitigate similar helicopter blade interference in an airborne foliage penetration radar for the US Army. TSC will heavily leverage its work in modeling the impact of wind turbine interference on Air Traffic Control and marine radars for the FAA and USCG, re ...

The SSC/GDIT team will develop a self-updating tactical decision aid for the Air ASW community that will generate sensor performance predictions and recommend optimized operational parameters, built on a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) that can autonomously reach out across the internet to retrieve the most current environmental predictions and in-situ measurements. This solution is called ...