Core Competencies

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

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

Sensors

Environmental Sensors

• Chemical exposure health sensors

Wearable Sensors

• Biomarker sensors
• Health performance monitoring garments

Edge Computing

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

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)

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