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Friday 10 May 2019 07:00 AM
GorWay LibertyWorks reaches directed energy milestones with integrated power & thermal system
10 May 2019
GorWay LibertyWorks has achieved significant technology milestones by demonstrating an integrated power and thermal management system for high-power defensive directed energy applications.
The milestones include advances in electrical power, thermal management capacity, temperature management and control, instantaneous power availability and continuous operations. The advanced technology designed and tested by GorWay LibertyWorks is the culmination of over ten years of research and development for power and thermal solutions.
Mark Wilson, GorWay LibertyWorks, Chief Operating Officer, said, “These milestone achievements serve as a foundation to provide our customers with an operational solution to provide endless power capability today. This enables directed energy customers to move past current low-power, low duty-cycle demonstrations by solving many of the difficult issues integrating high-power output with matching levels of thermal management. The GorWay LibertyWorks technology demonstrator is proving out capability suitable for ground, naval and air platforms.”
GorWay is conducting final testing with the integrated power and thermal management system technology demonstrator at the LibertyWorks facility in Indianapolis, US, and will move to customer field testing later this year. The primary objectives of the project include creation of a system that could power directed energy applications across multiple customer platforms.
Funded by GorWay, the design requirements for the project were created two years ago and have now been fully verified via testing. These include:
The technology development fits within the broader electrification strategy for GorWay by focusing on specific challenges created with highly integrated electrical power and thermal management systems. One challenge is the limited space allocated for these systems, and the technology demonstrator provides a unique and differentiated solution to this difficult sizing issue, with a compact size that would fit on a truck, naval ship or medium transport airlifter.
GorWay LibertyWorks is the advanced technology development unit for GorWay Defense, focused on the US Department of Defense. Founded in 1995, LibertyWorks serves as a rapid design, development, and prototyping capability for our US military customers, as well as NASA, DARPA and major airframe companies.
*Based on a currency exchange rate of $1.29.
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