Alternative Energy Sources for Heating Rations
An alternate tray ration heating system (ATRHS) utilizing heat recovered from diesel engine exhaust was developed and evaluated for the US Marine Corps. The recovered energy was used to directly…
Compact Sanitation Center for Expeditionary Field Feeding
The Army’s Assault Kitchen (AK) supports the field feeding with Heat and Serve (UGR-H&S) meals in mobile operations as well as Unitized Group Ration –A (UGR-A) while stationary. The AK…
Continuous Mode Conveyor Cooking Appliance for Military Field Feeding
Modern military field kitchens are required to provide high volume throughput while maintaining the best quality of group feeding rations for the warfighter. The Army's legacy JP-8 fired appliances fall…
Deep Fat Fryer Replacement
TRI Austin designed and demonstrated an Oil-less Deep Fat Fryer (DFF) replacement system through the use of high speed air impingement heat transfer techniques. TRI Austin and Jetsweep Solutions developed…
Affordable High Rate Manufacturing Process for High Density Sub-Projectiles
There is a requirement for lethal high density sub-projectiles that are affordable. Simple shapes, which are relatively inexpensive, lose lethality because of poor ballistic attributes. Machining these simple shapes to…
Small Lightweight Concealable Stabilization Device
U.S. SOCOM requires small, lightweight, concealable stabilization devices for target designators, cameras, and other imagers. A fieldable solution must be rugged, fold into a very small form factor, and weigh…
Countermeasure Launch Tube
The Mk 77 Mod 0 Gas Generator countermeasure launch tube used on U.S. Navy submarines was constructed from 1026 carbon steel. The launch tube O-ring seal surfaces were exposed to…
Biometric Design of Morphing Micro Air Vehicles
Over the past two decades significant progress has been made on the development of mission capable micro air vehicles (MAV) and small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) but the full potential…
Expeditionary Matting Soil Stabilization System
Soil stabilization matting is used to provide a temporary roadway for wheeled vehicles in areas otherwise rendered impassable due to soil conditions. As vehicles traverse unimproved terrain the travel conditions…
Payload Canister for Virginia Class Submarine
TRI Austin is developing a composite standardized payload canister that will support rapid integration of payloads into the forward Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT) or Virginia Payload Module (VPM) tubes. The…