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Successful Next Generation Sensor Producibility flight test includes Luna's electronics.
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Industrial |
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Interceptor Kill Vehicles
Photo Credit: Jacob Owen
NASA Imaging Lab
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Defense and Homeland Security at Luna Innovations
Luna Innovations is developing a number of technologies with potential use in military and homeland security applications. By integrating the appropriate combinations of technologies for a given application, Luna can provide a solution to the demanding requirements of these applications.
Sensing Solutions
- Shape sensing (i.e. 3-D mapping of flexible cables such as acoustic arrays)
Read more: Luna Awarded Shape Sensing in Underwater Arrays - Sensors for corrosion monitoring and prevention
- Passive optical sensors for pressure, strain and temperature
- Imaging sensor electronics
Read more: Luna Innovations' Electronics used in Successful Demonstration Flight Test of Missile Defense Interceptors
Health Monitoring
- Aviation electronics
Read more: "Fiber Interferometry for Testing Military Avionics" - Composite structures (i.e. aircraft)
Electronic Systems
- Electronic circuit design
- High-speed image and data processing
- Tactical fiber optic communications
- Packaging for severe environments
Homeland Security
- Missile Systems
- Concealed weapons detection
- Biocidal coatings
- Decon agent detection
- Underwater Surveillance using Shape Sensing
Read more: Luna Awarded Shape Sensing in Underwater Arrays
Secure Computing and Communications
Advanced Materials for Improving Military Capability
- Fire retardant materials
- Coatings for blast and ballistic resistance
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Corrosion control surface treatments and primers
- Conductive coatings and adhesives for shielding applications
- Impact indicator for composite structures
Read more: Inside Science Report on Luna's Impact Paint, Discoveries and Breakthroughs - Ultrahydrophobic aircraft coatings
- Self-healing coatings
- Improving the efficiencies of organic solar cells through carbon nanomaterials
Read more: Luna Awarded $3.9M for Nanotechnology Applications in Medicine and Alternative Energy for Defense
