Innovation Division

At CRG Defense, we invest in breakthrough research that advances warfighter capability, strengthens national security, and opens doors to dual-use commercial impact. Our R&D pipeline spans materials, energy, autonomy, aerospace, and health — driven by a legacy of successful SBIR programs and protected by an expanding IP portfolio. Below are emerging solutions to some of DoD’s toughest challenges, highlighting our breadth and depth of defense innovation.

Energy Storage solutions
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Energy Storage Solutions

Our energy storage solutions span a broad array of unique capabilities that includes more sustainable batteries with our lithium-sulfur chemistries, long-life storage with our micro-reserve batteries, high specific energy and power with our lithium-metal cells, and safe, fault tolerance with our proprietary lithium-ion cell chemistries.

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Quantum Communications

Our quantum technologies, rooted deeply in theoretical physics, offer the potential to reduce the size of low-frequency communications devices by several orders of magnitude, enabling compact solutions for small autonomous systems such as unmanned underwater vehicles.

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Casualty Care

Our casualty care solutions help maintain the safety and comfort of injured warfighters. From a revolutionary non-pharmacological pain management system to a novel patient transport platform, our mission has been to reduce the comorbidity resulting from patient transport, leading to saved lives and improved patient outcomes.

Read more about the ATLIS patient immobilization and transport system

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Human Health and Performance Monitoring

Our health and performance monitoring sensor solutions address the critical needs of occupational heat stress prevention, performance optimization, and rehabilitation assistance. We engineer custom stand-alone electronic wearable sensors, biosensors, and the associated algorithms for deployable human health monitoring solutions.

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Exposure Health

The collection of contextual data surrounding exposure to a variety of environmental health hazards is critical to understand the link between certain activities and adverse health outcomes. We have developed a modern, scalable, and automated system that provides context and location awareness to environmental and physiological exposures through real-time monitoring, aiding industrial hygienists with health risk assessments. This includes a custom-designed, handheld, chemical and particulate detection system.

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Cold Weather Gear

Our emerging cold weather gear fills a niche where commercially available products can’t meet the unique needs of the military. Traditional flight boots often fall short in providing adequate frostbite protection in subzero temperatures, especially in the cramped quarters of aircraft. Commercial heated products, while readily available, lack the durability and performance required for military missions. Our solution addresses these challenges with a slim, flame-resistant design that integrates seamlessly with existing boots and automatically activates only when needed. The liners are not just warm—they are smart, durable, and mission-ready.

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LattiSolve

Multiphysics Optimized Design

Our proprietary design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) computational optimization toolset, LattiSolve, harnesses the power of advanced lattice structures, multiphysics models, and optimization algorithms to accelerate multifunctional component design.

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Predictive Analytics

Our artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms excel at rapidly extracting anomalies from large, unstructured data sets with the added ability to offer predictive capabilities for applications such as hypersonic trajectory estimation and predictive maintenance monitoring of complex systems.  Our algorithms predict remaining useful life, prevents catastrophic failures, minimizes unplanned downtime, and reduces maintenance costs for aerospace, defense, industrial, and transportation applications.

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Autonomous Systems

Our autonomous systems build off an extensive portfolio of unique technologies and capabilities within CRG Defense and our partner organizations, enabling our team to rapidly develop and deliver unique solutions that are also low-cost and compatible with high-rate manufacturing.

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Specialized Materials

Our specialized materials solutions cover a vast array of applications such as high-temperature SiC/SiC composites for hypersonic systems, shape memory polymers for use in Smart Tooling, and sulfur-based polymers for constructing lunar habitats and IR transparent windows.

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