SHAW & TOWNSEND INNOVATIONS, LLC
Experience and Expertise with Advanced Technology for the DoW
THE GLOWING TOOLS PROJECT
Safety & Mission Readiness
WHEN, NOT IF, a tool goes missing in or around aircraft, all flights are grounded until the foreign object debris (FOD) is located. If the tool is not located within a few minutes, a search party is deployed including the captain of the carrier. This bottleneck in mission readiness could be easily avoided with high visibility hand tools. Not to mention, tools lost in the aircraft has resulted in catastrophic mishap. This is also a reliability requirement for commercial airlines.
Survey Data on missing hand tools reports that luminescent coatings increase visibility by 57% and this time saved translates to $7.7 million for the Navy. US Patent: US20200325394A1 This coating is a durable metal composite that has passed the rigorous suite of NAWCAD Engineering tests for corrosion, adhesion, abrasion and aircraft fluid exposure (SAW AS4984B 4.1.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.5 and MIL-STD-810G).
Advanced Cold Spray Repair Visualization
Locating Aircraft Repairs Rapidly with Human Eye
Cold Spray Metallization is a thermal spray solid-state coating process which involves heated high-pressure gas (such as He or N2) used to propel 5-75 um sized particles of metal, ceramic, and/or polymer through a De Laval nozzle such that the particles exit at supersonic speeds where the particles plastically deform and consolidate upon impact to form a dense low porosity coating that forms a metallurgical bond into to the surface. Used for aircraft repair and Additive Manufacturing. Current NDE requires single point invisible inspection to locate CS repairs.
We made it visible.
Bathless Localized Corrosion Prevention
Revolutionary Localized Electroplating At Site wihtout a Plating Bath
Imagine spot plating without submerging object in a bath or using brushplating solvents. Simple, fast and high quality corrosion resistance for outdoor equipment or corrosion hotspots. Works on steel and other metal alloy surfaces.
Metal electroplating is critical to technological advances and everyday production in electronics, automotive and aerospace sectors. Bathless electrostamping may provide positive implications for health and safety as well as technological advancements in manufacturing and repair for parts that are large, irregular, water sensitive or otherwise incompatible with submerging in a liquid electrolyte.
Research Driven | Readiness Minded | Reponsive Team
Shaw & Townsend Innovations, LLC delivers mission-focused support that helps organizations improve performance, readiness, and execution through disciplined processes and measurable outcomes.
CEO Jason P. Shaw, USN ret.
Retired AMDO. 28 years exp. in aero maintenance, logistics, and sustainment. Program management. Cost, Schedule, Performance. Acquisition consulting. Risk Management. Innovation. NAVAIR, NAVSEA, Pentagon.
COO Troy Townsend, PhD
Inorganic Materials Chemist Professor St. Mary’s College of Maryland. 2022 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist. 14 years exp. in US National Science Foundation Research Funding Awards and Project Management.
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