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Plug-and-Play Structures for Satellite Applications

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9453-06-M-0203
Agency Tracking Number: F061-273-2137
Amount: $99,920.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF06-273
Solicitation Number: 2006.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-08-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-08-08
Small Business Information
13135 Lee Jackson Hwy, Suite 330
Fairfax, VA 22033
United States
DUNS: 140785929
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Gregg Johnson
 Senior Lead Engineer
 (703) 956-6480
 gregg.johnson@3phoenix.com
Business Contact
 Joseph Liverman
Title: Program Director
Phone: (703) 956-6480
Email: andy.liverman@3phoenix.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The concept of a plug-and-play (PnP) deployable structure intended for configuration, verification and check-out, and deployment presents large challenges in meeting short duration cycling requirements. Specifically, state awareness technologies (e.g., embedded sensing arrays) must be designed and implemented such that transmission of relevant information (e.g., load, vibration, etc.) is permitted among platform components or sub-systems without reconfiguration, thus maintaining flexibility in rapidly evolving battlefield conditions. Specific forms of information content that comprise this assessment include structural health monitoring (SHM), which is the online detection, localization, and quantification of damage; damage prognosis (DP), which couples SHM assessments with predictive models for evaluating future performance; and shape/loads estimation, which estimates global displacement configuration and load and could be used to verify satisfactory deployment or task completion and to augment SHM/DP estimates. Tantamount to realizing this capability is the utilization of an appropriate sensing system that (i) can provide the data needed to extract such information; and (ii) meets the needs for a rapid redeployment cycle on the platform of interest. Fiber optic arrays are an attractive candidate with a number of advantages. Standard fiber optic sensing provides high-resolution, large-bandwidth strain data, suitable for SHM/DP and loads/shape estimation, with rapid array reconfiguration capability.

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