Contingency Response Wing Compact Mobile Power Generator Prototype

The 821st CRG devised a plan to explore power production alternatives to the current base operations support generators, the 30kW MEP-805 and the 60kW MEP-806, which are bulky in size, reliability rates are below standard and they spread across multiple pallet positions on an aircraft. This is a noteworthy project that advances an initiative that will not only meet the needs of the CRG power production and transportation requirements, but it will also have the potential to be fielded throughout the military, once complete. The original idea was submitted by the 821st CRSS power production shop through the base’s Phoenix Spark program. This concept started at the shop level by the Airmen that work with the equipment and knew there was a better way to do the mission. To see the development of their idea, get championed and funded to this point helps to re-enforce the notion that ideas from the field on ways to improve how business is done are taken seriously. Scaled Power Incorporated (SPI) has developed a turbomachinery innovation that enables power density well beyond state-of-the-art generator sets. The proposed Scaled Power Mobile Power Generator (MPG) will be a fraction of the volume and weight of existing systems across a range of output capacities, with this configuration scalable from 5kW through 100kW. The proposed MPG project is noteworthy as it that advances an initiative that will not only meet the needs of the CRG power production and transportation requirements, but it will also have the potential to be fielded throughout the military as a whole once complete.