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MR&D’s fundamental technical capabilities include aircraft and air-vehicle systems and propulsion systems of tactical and intercept missiles. Our focus in both of these areas is extreme environment components (high temperature, high oxidation conditions, highly loaded). MR&D also has extensive experience with composite material designs for thermal management applications.
The matrix provided below lists core strengths, the systems on which MR&D has performed designs, and the customer for our work.
| Core Area | Specific Strength | Relevant Systems | Customer(s) |
| Propulsion Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) Design | Rocket nozzle throat, insulation and support materials design | Strategic Propulsionand Application Program (SPAP) | Lockheed Martin, ATK-Launch Systems, and NAWC-China Lake |
| Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology (IHPRPT) | ATK Launch Systems,Air Force Research Laboratory | ||
| DACS-MDA | NAWC China Lake | ||
| AMRAMM | Army SMDC andNAWC China Lake | ||
| SM-3 Third StageRocket Motor | ATK Launch Systems | ||
| NASA 3k-5k lb LOX/Ch4 Lunar Ascent Engine | NASA MSFC | ||
| Airframe Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) Design | Wing leading edge designs | X-43A | NASA LaRC |
| Acreage TPS designs | Falcon HTV-2 & HTV-3 | LM Re-entry Systems Operation, DARPA | |
| Hot Structure Control Surface designs | X-37 | Boeing, NASA MSFC, NASA LaRC | |
| Jet Exhaust CMC Blast Shields | Av-8B Harrier Jump Jet | U.S. Navy | |
| Space Shuttle TPS Repair | Reinforced C-C WLEand Nosecap | NASA JSC, United Space Alliance | |
| Tile Overlay Repair | NASA JSC, United Space Alliance | ||
| Spacecraft Thermal Management | Carbon-Carbon Radiator Design | Earth Orbiting Satellite-1 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Gr/Ep Composite TWTA Thermal Doubler Design | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | LM Astronautics Co. | |
| PCI-format avionics thermal plane design | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | LM Astronautics Co. |
The following is a list of MR&D Customers from 2004–2013:
- 3Tex, Inc
- Advanced Ceramics Research
- Advanced Simulation Technology
- Aerojet
- AFRL-Edwards Air Force Base
- AFRL-Eglin AFB
- AFRL-Wright Patterson AFB
- Albany Engineered Composites
- Allcomp Inc.
- Allison Advanced Development
- Analytical Services and Mat’ls
- Army Research Laboratory
- Aspen Aerogels
- ATK Composite Optics
- ATK Launch Systems
- ATK Thiokol, Inc
- Cytec Carbon Fibers, LLC
- Naval Air Warfare Center
- Boeing Phantom Works, St. Louis
- Boeing Research & Technology, Seal Beach, CA
- B G Smith & Associates
- Compostite Factory, Inc.
- Composite Innovations Corp
- DE Technologies
- Exothermics, Inc.
- Fiber Materials, Inc
- General Dynamics Information Technology
- GE Ceramic Composite Products, LLC
- GE Power Systems Composites, LLC
- Goodrich, High Temperature Composites
- Hexcel Carbon Fibers
- Honeywell Advanced Composite
- Hyper-Therm High Temp. Co
- Intermat
- Jentek Sensors, Inc.
- Johns Hopkins APL
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Knobley Technical Associates, LLC
- Lockheed Martin Valley Forge
- Lockheed Martin Palmdale
- Lockheed Martin Denver
- Lockheed Martin Houston
- Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale
- Missile Defense Agency
- Material Innovations Inc.
- Millenium Engineering Co.
- Materials Resources Int’l
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Dryden Research Cntr
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- NASA Langley Research Center
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Cen
- Naval Sea Systems Command
- Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Navy Sea Logistics Cntr.
- Northrop Grumman El Segundo
- Office of Naval Research
- POCO Graphite, Inc
- Powdermet, Inc.
- Plasma Processes Inc.
- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, West Palm Beach
- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Canoga Park
- Refractory Composites Inc
- Swales & Associates, Inc.
- S D Miller & Assocs. Research Foundation (SMARF)
- SiemensWestinghouse Power
- SMAHT Ceramics, Inc
- SNECMA Propulsion Solide
- Southern Research Institute
- Starfire Systems
- Synterials, Inc
- T.E.A.M.
- Thermacore, Inc.
- Thor Technologies
- Touchstone Research Labor
- Ultramet Corporation
- United Space Alliance
- United States Air Force, Mat’ls Command
- United States Army, Redstone Arsenal AMRDEC
- Universal Technology Corp
- University of Dayton Researc Inst.
- US Air Force
- US Department of Justice
- USAF\AFMC Air Force Research Laboratory
- Williams International