Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR)
Abstract
The Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program will create microelectronic and mechanical systems capable of physically vanishing in a controlled, triggerable manner. This advance could help avoid problems associated with unrecovered devices, including their potential use by unauthorized individuals and the compromise of intellectual property. The resulting technologies could enable a range of applications including vanishing sensors for monitoring large areas of the environment and transient airborne vehicles for emergency resupply without requiring pack out of the air delivery vehicle. To support this new class of electronics and mechanical structures, VAPR will develop and establish an initial set of transient materials and components along with the required manufacturing processes. The resulting systems should perform comparably to commercial-off-the-shelf systems while demonstrating system transience that can be programmed, adjusted, triggered, or made to respond to the deployment environment. VAPR technologies will be demonstrated through two final test platforms. A vanishing air delivery vehicle capable of precise, gentle drops of small payloads (~3 lbs.) seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of transient structural materials. A sensor with a wireless link seeks to demonstrate the manufacturability of transient electronics. Both demonstrations are intended to fully function on their own and to serve as a leading indicator of the potential systems and concepts-of-operation that VAPR could enable.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- d5d93f5beee31c6d80bc5007abe897f8
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