Jessica Templeton, left, a Naval Air Systems Command materials engineer at Fleet Readiness Center East, and David Stricklin of Compass Systems inspect the finished product following the first-ever U.S. trials of a new cold spray technology application, held in late 2019 at FRCE. NAVAIR engineers from the Advanced Technology Team at FRCE, along with representatives of VRC Metals Systems, completed the first U.S. field demonstration of an on-aircraft structural repair using a mobile, autonomous cold spray metallization system to repair a corroded windowsill on a V-22 Osprey. (Photo by Heather Wilburn, Fleet Readiness Center East Public Affairs)

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