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Areté proposes to develop the REMORA payload carrier system. REMORA provides the ability to rapidly attach and deploy a payload externally from a cylindrical unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) without the need for vehicle modification or additional launcher hardware. The expendable system uses a high-strength vacuum force to adhere to the vehicle while remaining neutrally buoyant. A custom vacuum ...

Currently, the Navy does not have a lightweight and reliable system that can perform characterization, integrity checks, vulnerability discovery/detection and verification upon entry into 5G networks in an expeditionary setting (vehicle-mounted), so that users can use these networks safely. Our Phase I research confirmed it is possible to develop a portable, automated, efficient device usable by n ...

Jet fuel is currently used as a heat sink for the engine oil system, but its cooling capacity is limited by a temperature constraint necessary to preclude the formation of coke deposits. Therefore, it is essential to develop a method to suppress or slough off coke formation that will permit extended utilization of the fuel for system cooling in advanced aircrafts for high Mach numbers. RMD propose ...

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 ...

US Department of Defense (DOD) branches utilize steel alloys for components throughout the different weapon systems. Traditionally brush cadmium (Cd) plating is used for local touch up after Cd plating operations and during repair and overhaul.  Both the

Currently, the Navy uses a Double Vacuum Debulk (DVD) process to repair damaged graphite/epoxy and fiberglass/epoxy composite components. This process is done by impregnating dry fabric with resin, manually laying up the plies, and debulking in a separate piece of support equipment. The debulked ply stack is then placed on the repair area and cured. This process, which limits the size of the repai ...

Space systems’ cyber vulnerabilities represent the “soft underbelly” of the U.S. satellite infrastructure. USSF SpOC Commander, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting said governments such as China’s and Russia’s can attack satellites in orbit, but that cyberattacks offer a “lower bar to entry” to lesser powers, such as Iran or North Korea. In response to national security threats such as this one ...

K2 Space is building high performance satellite platforms to leverage the capabilities of the next generation of heavy and super heavy space launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship.  The K2 Space platform utilizes proven technologies applied at an unprecedented scale to deliver far more payload mass, power, and propulsive capabilities than current spacecraft while reducing the cost by an order o ...

The intent of this proposal is to work with the Berkeley Space Sciences Lab to develop a precision pointing platform to support a large aperture optical telescope, by addressing the unique requirements of this use case, and using K2 Space’s low-cost, high-performance modular architecture to produce a space vehicle and payload combination suitable for launching on SpaceX’s starship launch veh ...