Department of Defense

The Challenge

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) required a potential power source that would require less energy, cost and resource use than other sources as well as reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

The Solution

In 2007, the DOD initiated the Advanced Cavitation Power Technology (ACPT) program, a multi-year effort to investigate the use of Acoustic ICF as a potential power source and selected Impulse as the prime contractor. Acoustic ICF is the subject of an area of energy research and is most similar to laser inertial confinement fusion. Impulse scientists are internationally recognized experts in the field of Extreme Acoustic Cavitation™. On the ACPT contract, they were assisted by experienced Impulse technical support staff and directed teams of subcontractors from four university partners whose tasks included testing and developing state-of-the-art diagnostic tools.

The Result

During the course of the ACPT contract Impulse met or exceeded all contractual milestones, making discoveries and groundbreaking progress that opened new parameter spaces in the field of physical acoustics.