Energy Storage

Abstract

Problem: Situational awareness is critical to making the right decisions at the right time. Aerial surveillance is a key aspect of this mission, but is currently expensive to maintain on a 24/7/365 basis. Airships can provide this capability for extended durations. New technologies are required to reduce mass, generate and store usable power, and produce enormous radar arrays in a lighter-than-air environment to support 24/7/365 missions. Objective DARPA Objective: Provide unsurpassed situational awareness through the use of high-altitude, unmanned airships that are designed to provide high-reliability, unattended, onstation surveillance MITRE Activities: Provide DARPA technical support for energy generation and storage systems, modeling and simulation, sensor systems studies/analysis (e.g., phenomenology, related technology, reliability, etc.)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA604855

Entities

People

  • Perry Hamlyn

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Corporations
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Energy
  • Energy Production
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy Systems
  • Grazing Angles
  • High Altitude
  • High Density
  • High Reliability
  • Information Operations
  • Reliability
  • Renewable Energy
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Storage

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs