Development and Delivery of a Prototype Coating Maintenance Assessment Device

The SBIR objective is to develop a system that not only measures an aircraft’s coating integrity but tracks that history for the purpose of historical spatial comparison and facilitate the prediction of future coating maintenance. Millennium Engineering and Integration proposes to integrate new miniaturized hardware and surface integrity analysis software with previously developed emissivity measurement technology to provide a hand held Coating Maintenance Assessment Device (CMAD) prototype to the Navy for evaluating large surface areas of an aircraft’s coating integrity in fleet environments. The emissivity measurement technology is unprecedented, and the concept was demonstrated in field trials using laboratory scale equipment. The most formidable challenge is to reduce the size and mass of the hardware by a factor of three while providing complete capability and robustness required in a user friendly fleet deployable device.