Core Competencies

• Custom multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) tools for unique aircraft configurations

• Prototype aircraft fabrication, integration, and testing

• Composite repair isolation systems

• Rapid cure systems for bonding

Radio frequency (RF) material and structural component design, characterization, and testing

• 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

Non-lethal effects for asset protection and pedestrian safety

• Non-opioid pain management to combat the opioid crisis

• Patient immobilization and transport

• Environmental sensors, wearable sensors
• Chemical exposure health sensors
• Biomarker sensors
• Health performance monitoring garments

Efficient artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) algorithm development

• 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

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

• 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)

• Cellular design optimization toolset for lattice structures

• Polymer, composite, and metal materials and processes