Intelligence Value
The RESILIENCE program seeks to develop reliable power solutions to enable increased mission run-times for electronics used by the Intelligence Community. RESILIENCE is designed to increase power solution energy densities by up to 2x and calendar life by up to 10x beyond the performance of commercial solutions. Potential applications include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that need to operate without a runway, and leave-behind electronics that need to survive for years under extreme environmental conditions.
Summary
The Intelligence Community (IC) needs reliable power sources for missions in extreme and challenging environments. This includes power for unmanned robots, or vehicles that keep IC personnel out of harm’s way, and for electronic devices that must function unattended in extreme environments for long periods. IARPA’s RESILIENCE program focuses on developing novel power solutions for these, and many other challenging applications. Goals of the RESILIENCE program include power solutions with high-energy density, high-power density, long calendar life, and robustness to extreme environmental conditions, such as large temperature fluctuations, vibration, shock, overcharge and complete discharge. Although the goals for RESILIENCE power solutions are broad, the program is divided into two research tracks with unique goals:
- Track 1: High-energy power sources with the ability to sustain very high-power bursts at the beginning and at the end of discharge, such as those needed by a UAV vertical take-off and landing event
- Track 2: High-energy power sources that can hold a charge for up to two years, without significant capacity loss due to chemical degradation
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