LEAN Power engages industry and academia to advance innovation, leverage emerging technologies, and enhance Operational Energy technology and installation Energy infrastructure.
Specific technology focus areas include:
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of logistics technologies that address current and future DoD Contested Logistics needs in the area of access to power and energy. This includes the development of new models, simulations, and logistics paradigms as related to the development demonstration, manufacturability, survivability, and physical properties of these technologies and infrastructure. This category also includes the development of new fuel types, new subcomponents and subsystems, fuel conversion processes (additization & transformation), new diagnostic test hardware, new diagnostic test techniques to validate the capability of fuels and lubricants, and analysis of effects therein as related to the development and demonstration, the manufacturability and survivability of systems utilizing these technologies and capabilities.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of micro-grid technologies that address current and future DoD installation needs in the area of access to power and energy. These include technologies to provide better control and management of energy needs as well as technologies to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities, technologies to address power quality and technologies to provide conditioned, pier-side power. Also included in this category are micro-grid test-beds, smart inverters, smart controls and demand management.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test, and evaluation of technologies, techniques, procedures, and processes to enhance installation security with respect to water security and quality leak detection.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of energy/power storage- and battery systems. This includes the development of prototypes, new subcomponents and subsystems, new diagnostic test hardware, new diagnostic test techniques to validate the capability of energy/power systems, and analysis of effects as related to the development and demonstration, the manufacturability and survivability of systems utilizing State of the Art (SOTA) technologies as well as models and simulations.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of methods and models (hardware (physics based) energy & campaign/operational analysis (analytical and simulation), for energy supportability analyses and key performance parameters with respect to energy that relate fuel and power demand and usage to better optimize operational reach and manage risk.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of tools for training and education in support of technologies (batteries, energy and fuel usage, etc.) systems, tactics, operations and strategy pertaining to operational and installation energy. In particular, this includes model-based systems engineering (MBSE), improvements in efficiency and connections to wargaming and analytics.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research, prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation of technologies, modeling and simulation (M&S), and analytics in support of improving persistence of unmanned systems. In particular, common power architecture, hybridization, mission assurance, and achieving an algorithmic balance between efficiency and safe navigation are of interest.
