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Deployable Structures
Fold-kinematic aluminum-frame habitats engineered for one-pallet transport and stop-watched two-person deployment. Composite decks and assist-actuated panel pairs.
Expeditionary Energy Systems
Self-powered shelters for contested environments.
Harbison R&D develops deployable, solar-equipped squad habitats with integrated Faraday-shielded power cores — engineered for the U.S. Army’s expeditionary, multi-domain, and humanitarian mission set.
Capabilities
What we do.
Concept-to-prototype engineering for deployable structures, integrated photovoltaic/storage power systems, and EMP-hardened command-and-control enclosures. Every system designed to a single 463L pallet, two-soldier deployment, and a sub-five-minute standup.
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Integrated PV & Storage
Multi-face flexible photovoltaic arrays, hybrid load-bearing / power-carrying tensioning, mil-spec battery banks, and split-phase inverter stacks delivering multi-kilowatt expeditionary power.
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Faraday & EMP Hardening
Dual-layer woven shielded enclosures with filtered penetrations, targeting MIL-STD-188-125 envelope compliance for sensitive command-and-control electronics.
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Dual-Use Engineering
Same platform serves DoD expeditionary, DSCA/FEMA disaster response, and commercial remote operations (mining, research stations). One design, three markets, minimal variant cost.
Current R&D Program
Bipyramid Mk2.
The Bipyramid Mk2 is a rapidly deployable solar shelter with an integrated Faraday-shielded power core and an extended photovoltaic array. A single standard military pallet transports a complete self-powered habitat — multi-kilowatt PV harvest, on-board lithium storage, a split-phase inverter, and a shielded enclosure capable of hosting sensitive command-and-control electronics under GPS-denied conditions.
Two soldiers can deploy the structure in minutes without specialized tools. The platform replaces the combined footprint of a soft-wall tent, an external gen-set, a fuel bladder, and a separate shielded C2 module.
- Integrated solar harvest
- Multi-kilowatt class
- Onboard battery storage
- Squad-day class
- Inverter output
- Split-phase AC for ECU / medical / C2 loads
- Faraday attenuation
- MIL-STD-188-125 envelope target
- Deploy time
- Stop-watched, two-person
- Transport
- One standard military pallet
- Current TRL
- TRL 3 (analytical proof)
- Prototype target
- TRL 4 · 18-month program
IP & Filing Status
U.S. Provisional Patent filed.
Application
No. 64/044,076
Filed via USPTO Patent Center, April 20, 2026.
Title
Deployable Bipyramid Solar Shelter with Integrated
Faraday-Shielded Power Core and Extended Photovoltaic Array
Claims
Twenty (20)
Geometry · folding kinematics · integrated PV skin · Faraday power core · hybrid power-carrying guy cables · extended-array embodiment.
Non-provisional deadline
April 20, 2027
Variant · Mk1-L
Lunar surface power unit.
A scaled-down, suitcase-deployable embodiment of the Mk1 power core — re-qualified for lunar surface use. Half-buried in regolith to harvest the thermal gradient between the +120 °C daytime surface and the −20 °C sub-surface, producing continuous power through the 354-hour lunar night without an RTG.
Form factor
Rugged suitcase
0.85 × 0.55 × 0.25 m closed · 28 kg dry.
Deployed
Half-buried bipyramid
1.4 m across · 1.2 m tall · upper half exposed, lower half buried to the equator.
Peak power
~840 W
720 W photovoltaic · ~120 W thermoelectric during lunar day.
Night baseline
40 W continuous
Regolith thermal-gradient TEG + 1.2 kWh LiFePO4 buffer. Survives full 708 h cycle.
Deploy time
~45 min
Single-EVA astronaut · ~30 min rover-assisted. 0.30 m³ excavation.
Mission domain
CLPS · Artemis · cislunar DoD
Distributed surface power at equatorial or polar sites without RTG or fission reactor.
IP provenance · Embodiment of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 64/044,076 (parent Mk1). Stand-alone claims for the half-buried, thermally-harvested, extraplanetary-surface configuration are included in the forthcoming non-provisional filing.
TRL 2 · Analytical concept · Document HRD-TD-MK1L-001, v1.0, April 2026
Research Notes
Independent hypothesis briefs.
In parallel to the core hardware program, Harbison R&D publishes short, timestamped hypothesis briefs — working notes at the edge of neuroscience, computational psychiatry, and systems biology. These are perspective papers, not clinical guidance.
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The Unheld Trip
A computational and phenomenological parallel between autism and the psychedelic state.
Proposes that autism may represent a chronically REBUS-like predictive coding state — attenuated priors and over-weighted prediction errors — potentially rooted in developmental dysregulation of endogenous DMT metabolism and 5-HT2A receptor activity. Synthesizes three active research threads: endogenous DMT function, predictive-coding models of autism, and the REBUS model of psychedelic action.
Read the brief →
Research briefs reflect the views of the author and are published for discussion among researchers. They are not medical advice, not peer-reviewed, and independent of the Bipyramid hardware program.
Contact
Let's talk.
For licensing inquiries, government program interest, or partnership conversations, reach out directly or use the form. All sensitive technical disclosures require a mutual NDA — template available on request.
- Principal Daniel Harbison, Sole Inventor
- Email daniel@harbisonrd.com
- Phone (978) 979-1496
- Address P/O Box 132, Woburn, MA 01801