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| 8:10 – 8:15 |
Welcome / Announcements |
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Session I: Advances in Infrared Materials |
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| Session Chair: Joel Askinazi, Goodrich |
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| 8:15 - 8:40 |
Recent Advances in ALON™ Optical Ceramic |
Lee Goldman |
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| 8:40 - 9:05 |
An Update on Manufacturing Technology for Transparent Spinel Domes |
Evans A. LaRoche |
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Technology Assessment & Transfer, Inc. |
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| 9:05 - 9:30 |
Recent Advances in Magnesium Aluminate Spinel |
Thomas Mroz |
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| 9:55 – 10:20 |
Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency |
Juan L. Sepulveda |
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Materials and Electrochemical Research Corp. |
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Optical and Mechanical Characterization of CLASS® Sapphire Windows |
John W. Locher |
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10:45 – 11:10 |
Measurement of Index of Refraction Homogeneity in Large Windows for Multi-Spectral Sensor and Communications Applications |
Keith Rozenburg |
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Technology Assessment & Transfer, Inc. |
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| 12:15 – 12:40 |
Low Cost Zinc Sulfide Missile Dome Manufacturing |
Anthony Haynes |
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U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development, & Engineering Center |
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| 12:40 – 1:05 |
Spinel as a High Energy Laser Exit Window |
Ishwar Aggarwal |
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Naval Research Laboratory |
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| Session II: Nano-Composite Optical Materials |
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Session Chair: Rick Gentilman, Raytheon |
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| 1:30 – 1:55 |
Optical and Mechanical Properties of IR Transparent Nano-Composite Ceramics |
C. Scott Nordahl, PhD |
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| 1:55 – 2:20 |
Optical Modeling and Characterization of the Spectral Transmittance of Nanocomposite Optical Ceramics for IR Windows and Domes |
Brian J. Zelinski, PhD |
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| 2:20 – 2:45 |
Manufacture and Characterization of Transparent Nanoporous Glass-Polymer Composites |
Daniel J. O’Brien, PhD |
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US Army Research Laboratory |
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| Session III: Aerodynamic Infrared Dome |
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Session Chair: Dan Harris, US Navy |
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| 3:10 – 3:35 |
Navy Aerodynamic Infrared Dome Program |
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Daniel C. Harris, PhD |
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Naval Air Systems Command |
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| 3:35 – 4:00 |
Transparent Alumina and Yttria for IR Applications |
Mark V. Parish |
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| 4:00 – 4:25 |
Optical Properties of Polycrystalline Alumina |
Michael E. Thomas, PhD
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Johns Hopkins University |
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| 4:25 – 4:50 |
Finishing of Radomes with Bound and Loose Abrasives Utilizing the UltraForm 5-Axis Computer Controlled System |
Scott Bambrick |
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| 4:50 – 5:15 |
An Innovative Non-Contact Surface Measurement Solution
for Asphere, Deep
Parabolic, and Ogive Radome Geometries
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Joe Meisenzahl |
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| 8:10 – 8:40 |
Tactical Missile Seeker Domes - The Past, the Present, and Fearless
Forecasts for the Future. |
William Y. Bishop, Ph.D & Marcus L. Rhodes |
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Session III: Aerodynamic Infrared Dome (continued) |
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Session Chair: Dan Harris, US Navy |
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| 8:40 – 9:05 |
Precision Finishing of Conformal Domes |
Aric B. Shorey, PhD |
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QED Technologies International |
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| 9:05 – 9:30 |
Tools for Characterizing a New Class of Optical Domes |
James Trolinger |
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| 9:55 – 10:20 |
Transmitted Wavefront Metrology of Tangent Ogives |
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William P. Kuhn, PhD |
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Ultra-Precision Sensor for Surface Figure and Thickness Measurement of Conformal Optics |
Byron R. Knapp |
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Session IV: Finishing, Coating, and Metrology |
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Session Chair: John McCloy, Raytheon |
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| 10:45 – 11:10 |
Non-Destructive Optical Techniques for the Detection of Surface and Sub-Surface Defects in Sapphire |
Ikerionwu A. Akwani, PhD |
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| 11:10 – 11:35 |
Advances in ALON™ Optical Fabrication |
Jessica E. DeGroote, PhD |
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| 12:35 – 1:00 |
Precision Finishing of Sapphire Windows with MRF® |
Bob Hallock |
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QED Technologies International |
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| 1:00 – 1:25 |
Drag Force and Surface Texture in Material Removal with MRF on Glass and Hard Ceramics |
Stephen D. Jacobs |
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| 1:25 – 1:50 |
A Comparison of Removal Rates for Polishing Hard Materials with VIBE |
C.R. Klinger |
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| 2:15 – 2:40 |
Optical Fabrication, Coating, and Metrology for High Performance Windows in UV, VIS, and IR Applications |
Mahesh Amin |
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| 2:40 – 3:05 |
Non-Contact Optical Wavefront Metrology Using Scanning Low-Coherence Dual-Wavelength Interferometry (SLCDI) |
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Damon W. Diehl, PhD |
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| 3:05 – 3:30 |
Transmitted Wavefront Metrology of Domes and Large Windows |
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Matthew B. Dubin, PhD |
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Session V: Mechanical Response of Optical Materials |
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Session Chair: Bob Ondercin, US Air Force |
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| 3:45 – 4:10 |
Experimental Validation of the Weibull Area Scaling Principle |
John A. Detrio |
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University of Dayton Research Institute |
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| 4:10 – 4:35 |
Elastic Modulus and Strength of Van der Waals Adhesive-Free Bond (AFB®) Composites |
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Huai-Chuan Lee, PhD |
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| 4:35 – 5:00 |
Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites |
Jeffrey B. Rioux |
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| 7:30 – 9:30 |
Arsenal Tours, Sign Up Process To Be Announced |
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| Session VI: Advances in Radome Materials and Testing |
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Session Chair: Kelly Frazer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab |
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| 9:30 – 9:55 |
Raytheon Radome RF Test Range |
David G. Burks |
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| 9:55 – 10:20 |
Pre-Ceramic Polymer Laminate Composites: An Economic Technology for Hypersonic Radome Applications |
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John J. Dignam |
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Quartz-Reinforced Phthalonitrile Radome Development |
Gray Fowler |
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| 10:45 – 11:10 |
Oxide CMC for Electromagnetic Window Applications |
Vijay Parthasarathy |
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| 11:10 – 11:35 |
Cerablak® for Next Generation Radomes |
Benjamin Mangrich
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Session VII: When Bad Things Happen |
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Session Chair: Bruce Moylan, US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development, and Engineer Center |
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| 12:45 – 1:10 |
Rain Drops Encounters with Supersonic Missiles |
R. Kelly Frazer |
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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| 1:10 – 1:35 |
Droplet Demise Physics Based Modeling |
Bruce Moylan |
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US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development, & Engineering Center |
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| 1:35 – 2:00 |
Variable Condition Rain Impact Studies on Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina |
Roger M. Sullivan |
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| 2:00 – 2:25 |
The Residual Strength of Slip Cast Fused Silica After Supersonic Rain Drop Impacts |
R. Kelly Frazer |
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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| 2:50 – 3:15 |
Sand Erosion Test Method for DoD Unique Environments |
Lynne Pfledderer |
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| 3:15 – 3:40 |
Investigation of the Durability of Microstructure – Based Anti-Reflection Treatments |
Douglas S. Hobbs |
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| 3:40 – 4:05 |
Missile System Weather Specification Development |
Forrest Strobel |
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ITT Advanced Engineering Sciences |
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| 4:05 – 4:30 |
Ice Hydrometeor Testing Technique for Hypersonic Missile Materials under Simulated Flight Conditions |
Hartmut H. Legner |
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| 4:30 – 4:55 |
Modeling of Defects in Transparent Ceramics Toward Improving Military Armor |
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Costas Fountzoulas, PhD |
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US Army Research Laboratory |
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