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OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Develop an innovative tool that can autonomously generate a common mesh from Computer-Aided Design (CAD) geometry with adaptive global and local refinement capabilities for coupled aero-thermal-structural analysis and optimization to enable Virtual Reality (VR)-based real-time interactive designs. DESCRIPTION: Dig ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics; Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop modeling approach for designing, maintaining, and supporting air and sea platform digital and analog fiber optic communications technology. DESCRIPTION: The use of optical fiber on air, surface ship, and undersea platforms is pervasive, and is an enabling technology. Current militar ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Improve time-varying modeling and simulation capabilities to couple representative reactive sand particulates with modern propulsion systems, including inlet and turbomachinery. DESCRIPTION: Naval aircraft powered by gas turbine engines experience safety, performance, and reliability concerns when operating in deg ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Develop a digital twin (DT)-based system that can autonomously tailor local microstructure, heal defects, and minimize residual stresses and surface roughness in near real-time to assure repeatable, reliable, and optimal fatigue performance for additive manufactured (AM) metallic aerospace components. DESCRIPTION: Additiv ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop a time-resolved sensor system for measuring gas dynamic and compositional characteristics of high-temperature/high-velocity engine exhaust plumes. DESCRIPTION: Time-resolved measurements in high-temperature and high-velocity exhaust plumes are necessary to better understand transient phenomena including startup/shut do ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software; Advanced Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop simulation models and visualization tools for microwave curing process of carbon fiber reinforced composites, and demonstrate the feasibility to manufacture high quality carbon fiber reinforced composites using microwave radiation. DESCRIPTION: Autoclaves are widely utilized to process ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Sensing and Cyber; Advanced Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop ultra-compact, lightweight Mid-wave infrared (MWIR) zoom imaging optics based on flat lens technology and with 7 times improvement in SWaP. DESCRIPTION: MWIR imaging systems are essential to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Conventional IR optics are thick, he ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Trusted AI and Autonomy; Microelectronics; Directed Energy OBJECTIVE: Develop novel ultra-fast simulation technology capable of speeding up full-wave electrodynamic simulation by 1,000 times. This ultra-fast simulation technology will be used to develop long-wave infrared (LWIR) lens that are 100 times thinner and lighter than today’s state-of-the-art LWI ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Trusted AI and Autonomy; Integrated Sensing and Cyber OBJECTIVE: Develop capability that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies to debloat tactical software to reduce support costs, improve run-time stability, and reduce cybersecurity vulnerability. DESCRIPTION: Much modern software suffers from “bloat” that negati ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Intergated Network Systems-of-Systems OBJECTIVE: Develop a capability to collect, analyze, and predict levels of Tributyltin Oxide (TBTO) in deployed sonar domes. DESCRIPTION: A sonar dome protects the acoustic transducers, to reduce noise and enable optimal sonar performance. Crucial to its function is that the dome does not foul. Historically, this has b ...