Core Competencies

Aerospace Systems

  • Aircraft design/build/fly
    • Custom multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) tools for unique aircraft configurations
    • Prototype aircraft fabrication, integration, and testing
  • Aircraft repair and sustainment
    • Composite repair isolation systems
    • Rapid cure systems for bonding
  • Electromagnetics
    • Radio frequency (RF) material and structural component design, characterization, and testing
  • 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

Human Health & AI

  • Autonomous detection and deterrence
    • Non-lethal effects for asset protection and pedestrian safety
  • Casualty Care
    • Non-opioid pain management to combat the opioid crisis
    • Patient immobilization and transport
  • Edge computing
    • Efficient artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) algorithm development
  • Environmental sensors
    • Chemical exposure health sensors
  • Wearable sensors
    • Biomarker sensors
    • Health performance monitoring garments

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
  • Power distribution and management
    • Digital circuit breakers
    • Digital twin technology for simulation and predictive maintenance
    • Intelligent electrical load management systems
  • 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)

Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

  • Additive manufacturing
    • Cellular design optimization toolset for lattice structures
    • Polymer, composite, and metal materials and processes
  • Advanced Polymers
    • High-temperature polymers
    • Material characterization lab
    • Recyclable materials
  • Affordable, agile composite structures
    • Determinant and digital assembly
    • Rapid-cure composites
    • Unitized, bonded composite assemblies
  • Manufacturing process development
    • Lean lab and low-rate initial production (LRIP)
    • Quality system deployment