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TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Identify the root cause of mold development in the Rations Supply chain and analyze the results to develop a business case for eradication of the mold concerns. DESCRIPTION: The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) transports food from cold storage facilities to customers located around the world. Some of the pallets on which food is transported have been found ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Improve product availability and increase competition through the performance of Reverse Engineering in the development of a technical data package to be submitted as a Source Approval Request (SAR). The normal expected result of reverse engineering is the creation of a technical data package suitable for manufacture of an item by new sources. Manufacture ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Chem Bio_defense, Materials, Weapons OBJECTIVE: Leverage advancements in rapid prototyping technologies such as 3-D printing to develop innovative, cost effective, short lead time manufacturing method(s) for small production run, complex test articles of aerospace quality structural metal alloys without affecting the material properties of the subject materials. DESCR ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Info Systems, Space Platforms, Weapons OBJECTIVE: Develop new techniques for trajectory propagation that are more suited for use in federated simulations than traditional methods DESCRIPTION: Runge-Kutta methods have been the standard for numerically solving a system of differential equations to propagate rocket vehicle trajectories. While robust with well characteriz ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Space Platforms OBJECTIVE: Seeking innovative high-efficiency, low-volume, space-qualified cryo-coolers. DESCRIPTION: This topic focuses on enabling next generation sensor systems by improving cooler performance beyond the current state-of-the-art to support future space missions. Cooling is required to decrease detector noise and increase detector sensitivity by maintaining ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Weapons OBJECTIVE: Develop materials solutions to lighten the weight of various structural components of a missile body. DESCRIPTION: This topic seeks innovative, weight-optimized solutions for large missile structures. Solutions are sought for decreasing the weight of various structural components throughout the missile body. Material options must take into account the physi ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Improve product availability and increase competition through the development of Small Business eligible manufacturing sources for Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Critical Safety/Critical Application Items (CSI/CAI). DESCRIPTION: The list of Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Critical Safety/Critical Application Items (CSI/CAI) id ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Improve product availability and increase competition through the development of Small Business eligible manufacturing sources for DLA Land and Maritime FMD Hard to Source Items. DESCRIPTION: The list of FMD Hard to Source Items identifies items the Agency seeks to develop sources of supply. The list of hard to source NSNs are NSNs with an Annual Demand ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Electronics OBJECTIVE: Seek innovative solutions for High Speed Missile to Missile communications; either modifying the existing radio frequency (RF) communications data downlink or implementing an alternative design for an interceptor missile. DESCRIPTION: An interceptor missile uses a two-way wireless RF transmission data link between the launch control point and missile fo ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Info Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop a capability to predict run time and network resource loading of complex federations of missile defense engineering and/or Hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulations, assess scenario features driving resource loading, and predict affected components to warn of un-executable scenario designs, assist configuring Modeling and Simulation (M&S) networks ...