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The current M-4 carbine in use by the US Army can be equipped with numerous optics, laser designators/sights, and lights, all with different power requirements and battery supplies. The result is a heavy weapon and a heavier field load of batteries to accommodate the various accessories, which ultimately impacts the soldiers’ effectiveness, particularly on longer missions. The Army requested t ...

A critical need for the military is the development and fielding of robust distributed wireless sensor networks (WSN’s) that aid the U.S. forces to accurately detect, localize and identify commonly occurring battlefield sources. A versatile, scalable and easy to use distributed WSN development platform for high fidelity data acquisition and testing is needed that allows the developers to test o ...

The ability to accurately machine nickel-based alloys and other hard materials is critical to the manufacture of Army weapons such as mortar tubes, and electrochemical machining (ECM) is often the best, or only, option. The primary drawback of ECM is designing ECM tools. Tool design is extremely complex because the shape of the machined workpiece depends on tool shape, electrolyte and material ele ...

Parabon’s Snapshot DNA Phenotyping System, which stems from an SBIR Phase II project, predicts ancestry, pigmentation, and face shape from forensic DNA samples, giving investigators information about suspects or unidentified remains they could not have obtained previously. In December 2014, Snapshot was made commercially available, and since that time has been used in over 100 criminal cases. It ...

There is a large and growing U.S. Government and commercial market for sensors that can detect, identify and rapidly map contamination and threat materials on surfaces, especially trace explosives. The objective of this Phase II SBIR is to design, integrate, test and deliver a UV Raman Imaging sensor system for the detection and identification of trace explosive particles on surfaces with high spa ...

MATSYS proposes to develop novel high density, high strength, and highly reactive materials for the enhancement of munitions lethality. This effort will combine our unique expertise in instrumented-Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) with new approaches in powder blend design to develop a new generation of cost-efficient, high strength and highly reactive materials. The proposed material system will ha ...

Under Phase I of this topic, Trident Systems conducted initial development of a small, foliage-penetrating synthetic aperture radar designed for use with small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). This proposed Phase II seeks to employ the radar sensor in a different operational mode. Our Phase II work will result in realization of a capability to obtain accurate moving target detection of ground vehic ...

The ability to detect, assess and resolve ambiguity in the measurement- or feature/attribute-to-track association process is fundamental to the success of correct fusion of information and to the robustness of combat identification algorithms that depend on the correctness of this association process. To address these issues, Numerica has developed a Bayesian Network Tracking Data base (BNTD) that ...

There are many hardships associated with lengthy deployment. Isolation from your primary medical specialty degrades skills and adds to the burden. This proposal attacks the problem by giving surgeons a method to practice surgery while deployed. The use of a common platform workstation collocating grahics and haptics produces and environment in which multiple specialties can practice.

RNI with team member Technical Solutions, Inc. (TSI/TERI) is proposing a unique integrated solution to this problem. An innovative effort to design, develop and demonstrate Multi-Modal Interfaces for Synthetic Training Environments for effective training. The system will allow live humans as team or squad leaders to utilize a suite of interface devices to control and interact with automated forc ...