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System Engineering -- Thermal/Power- Efficiency Assessments of Air Vehicles

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-04-M-3431
Agency Tracking Number: F041-243-0890
Amount: $99,978.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF04-243
Solicitation Number: 2004.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-04-30
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-04-15
Small Business Information
4228 Carillon Trace
Kennesaw, GA 30144
United States
DUNS: 077768583
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Ernie Hodge
 Chief Executive Officer
 (770) 420-0545
 ehodge@modelogics.com
Business Contact
 Shane Mason
Title: Product Engineer
Phone: (502) 859-3879
Email: smason@modelogics.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Effective and timely assessments of total thermal and power energy management is critical to the design and eventual cost-effective deployment of emerging air vehicles. To fully assess the overall weapon system benefits requires evaluating the technology impacts to aircraft and weapon system effectiveness, survivability, reliability and affordability. What is needed is the ability to integrate simulations in a higher order model thus translating technology advances into war-fighter benefits. This R&D project will explore techniques to dramatically improve the ability to integrate vehicle assessments. Integration framework, modeling techniques and possibly fundamental methodologies will be explored. Phase 1 of the project will explore integration of the leading software currently used for aircraft evaluations. Existing models will be evaluated for their ability to perform the following functions: 1) Provide a higher level-modeling environment for the infrequent or less experienced users. 2) Modeling of normal behavior of subsystems and abnormalities that contain nonlinear and/or second-order effects. 3) Ability to evaluate weapons, long-loiter-time vehicles, energy storage systems, extremely small vehicles, and vehicles with no onboard liquids other than fuel.

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