Aerospace Systems
- Aircraft design/build/fly
- Custom multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) tools for unique aircraft configurations
- Prototype aircraft fabrication, integration, and testing
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- Aircraft repair and sustainment
- Composite repair isolation systems
- Rapid cure systems for bonding
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- Electromagnetics
- Radio frequency (RF) material and structural component design, characterization, and testing
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- Quiet electric propulsion
- Custom aero-acoustic design tools for quiet ducted fan and quiet propeller design, which may be applied to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), urban air mobility (UAM), electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and advanced air mobility (AAM)
- Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) propulsion
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Human Health & AI
- Autonomous detection and deterrence
- Non-lethal effects for asset protection and pedestrian safety
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- Casualty Care
- Non-opioid pain management to combat the opioid crisis
- Patient immobilization and transport
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- Edge computing
- Efficient artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) algorithm development
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- Environmental sensors
- Chemical exposure health sensors
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- Wearable sensors
- Biomarker sensors
- Health performance monitoring garments
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Power & Energy
- Energy storage
- Battery pack integration and testing
- Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cell development (safe, low-temperature electrolyte)
- Lithium-metal (Li-metal) cell development (high specific energy and high power)
- Pilot scale battery cell manufacturing line
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- Power distribution and management
- Digital circuit breakers
- Digital twin technology for simulation and predictive maintenance
- Intelligent electrical load management systems
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- Power generation and conversion
- Custom power-conversion electronics, to include silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) DC/DC converters and inverters
- Hybrid-electric power systems
- Solid-state transformers (SST)
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Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing
- Cellular design optimization toolset for lattice structures
- Polymer, composite, and metal materials and processes
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- Advanced Polymers
- High-temperature polymers
- Material characterization lab
- Recyclable materials
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- Affordable, agile composite structures
- Determinant and digital assembly
- Rapid-cure composites
- Unitized, bonded composite assemblies
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- Manufacturing process development
- Lean lab and low-rate initial production (LRIP)
- Quality system deployment
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