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Thursday, August 25, 2022 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM EDT
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25 August 2022 DPAAS Meeting

Printed Composites for Attritables and Rapid Deployables (PiCARD) – Materials and Manufacturing Advances to Support UAV operations in Highly Contested Environments

 

   

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Hilmar Koerner (AFRL/RXCCM) and Dr. Mark Flores (AFRL/RXCCP) will be our speakers on 25 August (Thursday), 11:30 – 1:30 PM, 2800 Presidential Drive, Holiday Inn, Fairborn, Ohio. Hilmar and Mark will discuss “Printed Composites for Attritables and Rapid Deployables (PiCARD) – Materials and Manufacturing Advances to Support UAV operations in Highly Contested Environments”

 

ABSTRACT: PICARD is an AFRL multi-directorate effort to improve range, loiter, manufacturing cost and sensing performance of attritable vehicles. On 24 March 2022, Dr. Michael Stanek and Mr. Bruce Thieman presented a talk to DPAAS titled, "PICARD - Design for Unmanned Air Vehicle Operations in the Highly Contested Environment.” The presentation provided an overview of the preliminary vehicle design of a vehicle to conduct mobile ground targeting in A2/AD environment, along with description of test and validation methodology and discussion of operations and mission analysis to compare different manufacturing and sensing strategies using Command PE tools. 

 

Dr. Koerner’s and Dr. Flores’ presentation will describe efforts on the PiCARD program to improve the core capability of the preliminary designed Small, Low-Cost, Air-Launched, Attritable, Aircraft for ISR Resilience (SLA3IR) via revolutionary materials and manufacturing approaches. Maturation efforts to be presented will focus on additive manufacturing of composites, new rapid cure resins, topology optimized design, structural integration of electronics and antennae, and risk-based certification frameworks. Through these approaches, PiCARD is paving a path to vehicle designs that will reduce weight and increase fuel volume, thereby increasing range and loiter time. These approaches also have the potential to reduce manufacturing, system life-cycle, and mission costs while enabling entirely different logistics and support concepts. Structural integration of electronics and sensing capabilities will improve the sensing and/or electronics performance and free up volume for other payload or additional fuel. Together, these efforts build upon the innovative design elements of the SLA3IR vehicle, against which the PiCARD team will quantify performance enhancements or debits via full scale structural testing of a common wingbox component.

 

Hilmar Koerner is a Research Lead in the Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB. In this position, he directs research on accelerated materials discovery, processing science and modeling for advanced composite manufacturing routes. Dr. Koerner is active in numerous technical communities and his research interests center on the physics and chemistry of high temperature polymer thermosets, molecular hybrids, nanocomposites and methods for light weighting and advanced manufacturing applications, such as additive manufacturing and real-time monitoring techniques. He has co-authored more than 150 refereed papers, 50 proceedings, two edited books, and 10 patents. He has been a contributor on ~150 technical presentations of which ~25 were invited/plenary. He is active in MRS, ACS, APS and SAMPE and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Mark Flores is the Research Materials Engineer in the Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB. His research interests include micromechanical experimentation, residual strength after impact, and novel experimentation at various length scales of composite materials. Dr. Flores has co-authored more than 20 referenced papers, and 10 proceedings.  He is an active member of the American Society of Composites.

Please note that participation in DPAAS is limited to representatives of the United States Government and U.S. Defense Contractors. All representatives must be Citizens of the United States only. 

DPAAS technical presentations may count toward Acquisition Continuous Learning (CL) Points – please check with your supervisor!

 

Registrations/Cancellations need to be received no later than 12:00 Noon, 24 August 2022. To cancel your registration, please send an email to admin@dpaas.com. "No shows" will be billed.

 

Recommend early registration – space is limited!

 

Sincerely,

Rich Knoll, DPAAS President

Abstract: ACE is the AFRL overarching technology portfolio for developing technology options for uncrewed Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP). The goal of ACET is to integrate all of the S&T needs to maximize tech transition to fill capability gaps. The major Lines of Effort for ACET are Autonomy, Weapons/Payloads, Communication/Computing, Human System Interfaces, Platform/Air Vehicle, and DOTmLPF-P. ACET focuses on Affordability, Collaborative Teaming, Mission Effectiveness and Rapid Acquisition in order to effectively and efficiently meet warfighting needs by achieving Mass in the battlespace. ACP’s are not intended to be confined to a specific mission or class of aircraft, but broadly looks at various mission concepts across all of the mission areas to determine the technologies that may be more broadly applied and then accelerated to appropriate mission capabilities.

ACET integrates early with MAJCOMs, AF Futures, and SPOs during the requirements development phase to ensure that the user is well informed on Technology maturity and availability to support mission capability needs. Integrated Modeling and Simulation is then used to identify what technologies areas will achieve the greatest effect at the lowest cost to meet key timelines through incremental deliveries of integrated technology packages. This will allow the AF to further expedite technology transition and streamline fielded capability delivery though Programs of Record with informed risk acceptance and known expectations, while continuing to build to a heterogeneous platform architecture and multi-domain collaborative environment to further extract the advantages of Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence.

Lieutenant Colonel “Larry” Ware is the Director of Autonomous Collaborative Enabling Technologies at Air Force Research Laboratory. He is responsible for integrating Science and Technology programs across the laboratory in order to plan and expedite technology transition, filling warfighter capability gaps with affordable and collaborative weapon systems.  

Lt Col Ware was commissioned into the Air Force in 2002 from University of Tennessee and has filled various roles as a Sustainment Engineer, Space Launch Squadron Director of Operations, and Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Commander. He has direct operational experience with the A-10, multiple C-130 variants, CV-22, and UH-60 aircraft, as well as Falcon 9, Atlas V, and Delta IV launch vehicles. Prior to his current position he was a Materiel Leader in the B-21 System Program Office where he was responsible for Product Support Management and base activation. 

Note: Participation in DPAAS is limited to representatives of the United States Government and U.S. Defense Contractors. All representatives must be Citizens of the United States.

 

DPAAS technical presentations may count toward Acquisition Continuous Learning (CL) Points – please check with your supervisor!

 

Registrations/Cancellations need to be received no later than 12:00 Noon, 25 May 2022. To cancel your registration, please send an email to admin@dpaas.com. "No shows" will be billed.

 

Recommend early registration – space is limited!

 

Sincerely,

Rich Knoll, DPAAS PresidentWe are very pleased to announce that Mr. Mark Seelbaugh and Mr. Richard Hughes, AFMC/A5/8OW, will be our speakers at the 16 December (Thursday) DPAAS meeting, 11:30-1:30 pm, 2800 Presidential Drive, Holiday Inn, Fairborn, Ohio. Mark and Richard will discuss “AFMC Deliberate Planning – Powering the World’s Greatest Air Force”