Why Dayton, Ohio

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Why Dayton, Ohio

• John Leland, Director, University of Dayton
  Research Institute
• Louis Luedtke, President, National Composite
  Center
• Larrell Walters, Director, IDCAST

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Why Dayton, Ohio?

• United States Air Force Research Laboratory
• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
• Advanced Sensor Technology
• Path to Commercialization

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Air Force Research Laboratory

• AFRL is headquartered at Wright Patterson AFB
  near Dayton and has an annual budget of 3.6
  Billion
• Sensors Directorate
• Materials Manufacturing Directorate
• Propulsion Power Directorate
• Air Vehicles Directorate
• Human Effectiveness Directorate
• Five other Directorates located across the country

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Air Force Research Laboratory

• Sensors Directorate develops radar, active and
  passive electro-optical targeting systems,
  navigation aids, automatic target recognition,
  sensor fusion, threat warning and threat
  countermeasures
• Materials Manufacturing Directorate develops
  materials, processes, and advanced manufacturing
  technologies
• Propulsion Power Directorate develops air and
  space propulsion and power system materials,
  sensors and technology

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Air Force Research Laboratory

• Air Vehicles Directorate develops aeronautical
  science, vehicle control technologies and
  structures for all atmospheric and
  trans-atmospheric vehicles
• Human Effectiveness Directorate develops
  technologies specific to the human element of
  warfighting capability including superior Airman
  cognition, readiness, performance, and survival

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Why Dayton, Ohio

• Advanced Materials Manufacturing
• Nationally Ranked University Research
• Strong Industry Presence
• Designed for Collaborative Research
• World Class Facilities and Capabilities
• What We Are Looking For

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Nationally Ranked University Research

• Many Breakthroughs in Material Science Technology
• University of Dayton is 2 University in the
  United States in Funded Materials Research
• Ohio State University is the 3 University in the
  United States in Funded Materials Research

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Strong Materials Industry Presence

• Hartzell Propeller Inc.
• Maverick Corporation
• Mound Technical Solutions
• NanoSperse
• Precision Energy Technologies
• Pyrograph products, Inc.
• Quickstep Holding, PTY
• Renegade
• Sustainable Carbon Nano Tech.
• TPI
• UES
• UTC
• Vector Composites
• Wright Brothers Institute

• 3D Engineering
• A P Technology
• Applied Sciences Inc.
• ATK Mission Systems Group
• BAE Armor Holdings
• Boeing
• Cornerstone Research Group
• CMPND
• CTL Aerospace
• Faraday Technologies
• GE Aviation
• General Dynamics
• Kurz-Kasch

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Designed for Collaborative Research

• The State of Ohio and local Community Funded the
  National Composite Center in Dayton
• NCC was established in 1996
• Mission To provide creative commercialization
  solutions for composites by incubating and
  accelerating new technologies and companies. To
  support growth in the local economy by creating
  jobs in the Dayton Region.

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Materials Manufacturing Capabilities

• World Class Production cells in
• Preforming of Glass and Carbon Fiber
• Molding
• SRIM
• VARTM
• RTM
• Quickstep Out of Autoclave
• Long Fiber Thermoplastic Molding
• Extrusion of nano modified resins
• Nano modified Sheet Molding Compound (SMC)

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What We Are Looking For

• Materials Manufacturing Systems
• New processing techniques
• New materials formulations
• Bio and nano modified materials
• Metal matrix composites
• Ceramic matrix composites

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What We Are Looking For

• Applications
• Platforms for UAVs under 75 Kilos
• Platforms for mid to large UAVs
• Advanced Energy Systems
• Collaborations
• Methods and Experiences for University-Industry
  Collaborations
• Identification of Joint Research Opportunities

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Why Dayton, Ohio

• Advanced Sensor Technology
• Nationally Ranked University Research
• Strong Industry Presence
• Designed for Collaborative Research
• World Class Facilities and Capabilities
• What We Are Looking For

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Nationally Ranked University Research

• University of Dayton
• LADAR, IR, EO, Terahertz, Sensor Exploitation,
  CBRNE
• Ohio State University
• RF, RADAR, Sensor Exploitation
• Wright State University
• Terahertz, RADAR
• Miami University
• Terahertz, CBRNE
• Air Force Institute of Technology
• EO, LADAR, RADAR, Sensor Systems Integrations
• University of Cincinnati
• CBRNE, Electro-Chemical Sensing

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Strong Sensor Industry Presence

• Midwest MicroDevices
• Mound Technical Solutions
• Pallas Systems
• Photon-X
• Qbase
• SET Engineering
• STAN Solutions
• TecEdge TecEdge Works
• Traycer
• Trimble
• UES
• Valtronic
• Wallace Kettering Neuroscience Institute
• Woolpert
• Wright Brothers Institute
• WCSSE
• YSI

• Analog Bridge
• ATK
• BAE
• Boeing
• Breakthrough Technologies
• CMPND
• Defense Research Assoc
• DMS Technology
• Essential Research
• Faraday Technologies
• Fused Multimodality Imaging
• GE Healthcare
• General Dynamics
• Inventis Group
• L-3 Cincinnati Electronics
• L-3 Nova Engineering
• Micro Molar Systems

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Designed for Collaborative Research

• The State of Ohio Funded a National Center of
  Excellence in Advanced Sensor Collaborative
  Applied Research in Dayton
• IDCAST was established with a 28 million grant
• Institute for the Development and
  Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology
• Mission Move technology from the lab to
  commercialization through industry-academic-AFRL
  collaborative efforts
• Supplemented by a 24 million grant to create 7
  endowed chairs in layered sensing

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World Class Sensor Research Facilities

• Open to teams of Industry, Academia, and AFRL
• Incubator Space for Company Startups
• The Region has 4,600 Square Meters of
  Collaborative Lab/Research Facilities
• 1,000 Sq M LADAR
• 500 Sq M CBRNE
• 500 Sq M Terahertz
• 750 Sq M Lasers and EO
• 300 Sq M Electronics
• 300 Sq M Visualization Analytics

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World Class Sensor Capabilities

• World Class Test Beds in
• LADAR
• RF
• IR
• Terahertz
• Electro-Optic
• Sensor Exploitation
• Environmental Sensing

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What We Are Looking For

• CBRNE Sensing
• CBRNE Sensor developments
• Different transducer platforms
• Capture agents developments
• Bio-metrics
• Detection
• Analysis Methods
• Human Signature Sensing
• Vital Signs
• Stress
• Environmental Sensors
• Water and Air
• Chemical and biological
• IED and Explosive Detection

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What We Are Looking For

• Communications, Computation, and Data Storage
• High bandwidth air to ground data links
• Light weight, low power, small form factor mobile
  computing storage solutions
• Reconfigurable Computing
• New developments and applications
• Novel Techniques with GPUs and FPGAs
• Mining of Sensor Data
• Real time and forensic
• Human Factors issues for visualization of large
  datasets, multiple sensor fusion applications
• Elimination of false positives
• Integration of layered sensing solutions

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What We Are Looking For

• Remote Sensing Technologies
• Anti-Spoofing Technologies
• GPS
• Precise positioning in GPS denied environments
• High precision inertia linear and angular inertia
  sensors
• CMOS RADAR Technologies
• Terahertz Sensing
• Identification
• Chemical Detection
• NDE (Non-destructive evaluation)
• Sense and Avoid Systems
• Image Processing Technology
• Anomaly detection
• Change Detection

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What We Are Looking For

• Applications
• Oblique angle camera technologies
• Capturing sides of buildings and under bridges
  from airborne assets
• Border, port airport security
• What are the technologies and solutions utilized?
  
• Interested in the total solution set
• Remote Triage
• Systems for UAVs under 75 Kilos - Small form
  factor sensors and power, communications, and
  control technologies
• Collaborations
• Methods and Experiences for University-Industry
  Collaborations
• Identification of Joint Research Opportunities

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Why Dayton, Ohio

• Path to Commercialization
• Companies interested in commercialization of
  technology
• Regional funding sources
• SBIRs
• Sensor specific funding

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Path to Commercialize Technology

• The Dayton Region has Channels to Market
• The region has over 27 companies actively working
  to commercialize advanced materials and sensor
  technology
• Six of the United States tier 1 aerospace
  providers have a Dayton presence

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Path to Commercialize Technology

• The Dayton Region has Funding
• The region has 22.5 million of services and
  investment funding for the commercialization of
  advanced materials and sensor technology

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Air Force Small Business Innovative Research
Program

• SBIR is designed to stimulate technology research
  by small businesses
• SBIR also encourages small businesses to market
  technology in the private sector
• Managed at Wright Patterson AFB and executed by
  AFRL
• 330M/yr annual budget, 499 topics, over 800
  awards
• Proximity to Wright Patterson AFB and numerous
  opportunities to partner increase the success
  rate of Dayton area companies

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Path to Commercialize Technology

• The Dayton Region has Funding for Sensor
  Commercialization
• IDCAST has 6.8 million of matching funds to
  commercialize advanced sensor technology by
  moving from the lab to product demonstration

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Why Dayton, Ohio

• We can make it happen!
• Interest
• Technology
• Strong Collaborations
• Markets
• Funding

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