Novel Gun Hardened Energy Management System

The main objective of this project is the development of a novel energy system for emplaced munitions that can reliably meet its relatively low power requirements of the order of 10 mW for a period of 30 days and that could also provide several high-pulsed power requirements of the munitions that are around 1 second long and no more than 500 mA on demand over this period. The power system must be capable of being highly miniaturized, must integrate energy management functions, such that it would minimize overall energy consumption during the required 30 days power budget, must be fully compatible with currently available manufacturing processes, must be gun hardened to withstand setback and set-forward and balloting shocks and flight induced vibration, must have a shelf life of over 20 years, and must be safe and meet all military operational and storage temperature requirements of -65 deg. F to 165 deg. F. Such a power system is also ideal for use in extended range munitions in which the power requirement fluctuates highly during the relatively long duration of the munitions flight and operation.