Sustainment Technologies: Navy STP 2024-2025 Cohort

This week, we are featuring sustainment technologies being developed by small businesses currently enrolled in Navy STP.

Beast Code (Fort Walton Beach, FL) InSITE -Integrated Surface Information Technology Environment Topic# AF21B-TCSO1

Traditional DoD weapon systems are designed and maintained using two-dimensional technical documentation and legacy software. However, future weapon systems are built using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools in the design/acquisition phase and leverage predictive analytics during sustainment to better inform decision making. These technologies can be combined with the data, documents, and 3D models stored in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications to provide stakeholders with an in-depth understanding of the weapon system at each stage of the acquisition lifecycle.

FATHOM5 (Austin, TX) Microscale Onboard Integrated Condition Assessment Topic# N22A-T026

There are no low-cost options for a sensors and computational node that conducts CBM (Condition Based Maintenance), with options for performing CBM focused AI/ ML at the edge under low-power constraints. Research into the industrial and automotive CBM marketplace shows that there is a sizable market for such low-cost sensor and computational nodes. Fathom5 set about to determine if a concept of a low-cost, low power expandable network sensor could be designed within the cost and form factor constraints of the ONR program. The answer to this inquiry is a resounding yes. Fathom5 has developed the first alpha run of the Low-Cost, Low-Power Naval Sensor (LENS) boards to prove that a low-cost, low-power CBM solution is viable.

FTL Labs Corporation (Amherst, MA) DADTMA Gen3 - Distributed Acquisition Digital Twin Maintenance Architecture Topic# N204-A01

Digital twins can be imagined as virtual, continuously learning digital representations of physical assets. Such simulations can marry virtual and physical understanding of assets such that analog data from the physical product and its surrounding sustainment ecosystem is converted into digital data that is stored, analyzed, modeled, and learned by artificial neural networks (NNs) and other automation algorithms. FTL's DADTMA is a comprehensive architecture for curating a Machine Learning (ML) driven database of any product to perceive current condition, simulate possible performance scenarios, and predict impending failures.

Global Strategic Solutions LLC (McLean, VA) Smart Avionics Systems Environment for Automatic Test Systems Topic# N221-018

GSS will develop a system to characterize avionics systems health, transform avionics systems data into a standard format, and operationalize Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) practices in automatic test systems (ATS). This system will enhance ATS capability to support weapon system CBM and prognostics health management (PHM) practices, enable avionics systems test/ repair efficiencies, and facilitate capture and exchange of ATS data/information. The product will integrate a HealthBased Test Rule Editor Application and Health-Based Test Advisory Application. Users will interact with the advisory application to receive all unit under test (UUT) health tracking and suggested guidance.

MSC: Materials | Structures | Composites (Materials Sciences LLC) (Horsham, PA) Room-Temperature Filler for Honeycomb Repairs Topic # N221-006

There is a need to improve upon legacy repair and maintenance methods in order to maximize the life of high performance composite components and structures. Streamlining larger honeycomb repairs will return a cost savings while also positively impacting the OPTEMPO of the associated platforms. Materials Sciences LLC (MSC) has developed a low density, fast-curing honeycomb filler material that facilitates in-situ repairs. MSC will optimize a honeycomb filler material that meets NAVAIR’s repair material qualification requirements while concurrently scaling up the processing infrastructure needed to meet fleet-wide distribution of this shelf-stable, rapid-cure repair solution.

Metis Design Corporation (Boston, MA) Fastener Attrition Sensing Transducer (FAST) Topic# N161-009

Metis Design Corporation (MDC) has presented a method for detection of damage in complex fastened joints. Heath & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) have been used on rotorcraft to collect prognostic data to reduce preventative maintenance costs and increase asset availability. Most HUMS data collected today relates to drive system components. This technology would expand CBM capabilities beyond HUMS hardware to also capture fatigue damage in complex fastened joints. Many Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems in development can detect damage on flat structure but features hidden in a multi-layer stack can be extremely challenging for conventional technologies.

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