Fan-less Cooling for Compute at the Tactical Edge

Data is an essential warfighting tool. Battlefield sensors generate significant amounts of data that must be processed and analyzed,  increasingly at the point of ingestion – at the edge. The hardware needed to accomplish this processing is getting smaller, more powerful, and requires enhanced thermal management capabilities. Today’s solutions are too large, heavy, maintenance-heavy, and under-performing for these advanced processors – especially in hot, tactical edge environments. The goal of this Phase I program is to identify the assets that are limited by thermal management challenges and connect them with advanced fan-less processor cooling technology to enable the next-generation of computing for AI, video analysis, and signal processing.