CRAFTELL POWER SOURCES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: The main objective of this project is to study the feasibility of a number innovative rese

Description

The main objective of this project is to study the feasibility of a number innovative reserve power sources and reserve power systems for munitions applications. The proposed new reserve power sources promise to provide the means to construct highly reliable power-on-demand reserve power systems that can be activated very rapidly to achieve rise times of 3 msec and possibly less with the capability of achieving very long run times suitable for applications in gun-fired munitions, mortars and sub-munitions. The proposed innovative reserve power system architecture is expected to allow the implementation of a new energy management system that can be readily adapted to the requirements of almost any munitions power demand profile. The architecture of the proposed reserve power system is also intended to allow the use of a very limited number of standardized reserve power sources to optimally provide power to almost any munitions applications and make it cost effective to mass manufacture reserve batteries to achieve a significant reduction in their cost. The proposed reserve power sources can be designed to withstand very high-G firing shock and should readily provide a shelf life of over 20 years.