2024 LIFT Ecosystem Accelerator Program (LEAP) Call

2024 LIFT Ecosystem Accelerator Program (LEAP) Call

The project call is designed to solicit exciting new project ideas from LIFT members connecting materials, processes and systems, and bring them to completion on a shorter timeline.

Project ideas should align with LIFT’s main technology pillars with focus in areas of:
- High Throughput Alloy Synthesis And Test: Automated Metallography and Analysis; Chemical Analysis

- Extreme Environment Performance Testing: Hot Structure; Aerothermodynamics; High Strain Rate

- Virtual Representation Of Materials In Extreme Environments: Crack Growth In Homogenous Materials; Gun-barrel Interactions; Ballistic Impact; Hypersonics

- Digital Augmentation Of Manufacturing Processes: In-situ Monitoring; Process Modeling (DCS, Atomizing)

- High Temperature Materials: MMCs, Ceramics, CMCs & Metallics; ICME For Ceramics and CMCs (Chemistry, Process, Structure, Performance); Joining; Cost Effective, Scalable, Refractory Metal Processing (Hydride – Dehydride Alloying)

- Materials Maturation: Design For Materials Recovery; Critical Element Reclamation; Displacement/Replacement Of Critical Materials; Battlefield Foraged Material Re-use; Graded Materials Property And Performance; Supply Chain Modeling (Lifecycle, Risk & Cost)