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The Army has a critical need to accelerate and improve terrain analyses from remotely sensed imagery to support the increasingly mobile requirements of the Army Warfighter. Existing techniques for terrain analysis, topographic, and reproduction supportare slow, labor intensive processes that do not meet the needs of the Force XXI digital battlefield. Previous research has shown that incorporatin ...

Pine Ridge Products LLC will introduce a tactical micro wind turbine that is highly efficient, robust, easy to use, maintain and transport. The Army is requesting a renewable energy system to reduce the amount of fuel used for small power loads. A vehicle mounted, efficient wind turbine system would improve self sufficiency on site by decreasing the need for fossil fuels. This will increase reliab ...

This project will develop and demonstrate a prototype Modular Perfusion Bioreactor (MPB) for tissue engineering applications. While many unique styles of bioreactors have been proposed for various types of stem cell and tissue cultures, there is not a single, easy-to-use device that accommodates the multiple diverse needs of multiple tissue culture types.. In order to take advantage of recent ad ...

Many Department of Defense (DoD) sites are contaminated with contaminants of concern (CoCs) that are hazardous to humans and the environment requiring novel remediation strategies. MSE Technology Applications, Inc. and the Center for Biofilm Engineering(Montana State University) propose this Phase I STTR to develop novel, biofilm-based, remediation technologies for in situ and ex situ bioremediati ...

Conventional antennas are often not suitable for military applications due to shape and size constraints imposed by the competing demands for good radio-frequency-specific electromagnetic resonance with high durability and low visibility. Consequently,numerous varieties of antennas have been created over the years to help solve these electrical and mechanical constraints. Sciperio has developed ...

Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT) proposes exploratory development of a design for an integrated lightning hazard decision support system for tactical applications. The design addresses the needs articulated in solicitation topic #A02-048 formeans of detection, location, imminent prediction, and mitigation of lightning-strike hazards in tactical, battlefield situations. WDT is ideally po ...

Current and emerging Command, Control, Communications and Computer Information (C4I) systems require users to train with them constantly to maintain adequate proficiency - difficult in a resource constrained environment. During this project we willresearch the feasibility of embedding intelligent tutor system (ITS) technology linked to game courseware in C4I systems. This system will provide sys ...

The InAs/InGaSb Strained Layer Superlattice (SLS) system is developing rapidly and is now finally poised to seriously challenge HgCdTe as the dominant technology for mid- and long-wave detection. SLS structures have a number of practical and theoretical advantages over HgCdTe materials, including lower Auger noise, higher operating temperature, better wavelength uniformity, more robust materials, ...

Infectious disease is a serious threat to military personnel in operations in third world countries. The ability to rapidly diagnose disease is critical to initiate treatment and to reduce troop mortality. This research addresses the DoD need to adaptstate-of-the-art technology to develop a rapid, field-usable assay capable of diagnosing scrub typhus infection. ChelaTech has developed new compo ...

In this Phase II proposal, Nomadics in a collaborative effort with the Keck Graduate Institute proposes to develop assays and devices based on amplifying fluorescent polymer (AFP) technology for the rapid identification of biological warfare agents inwater. The rapid, sensitive detection and identification of biological agents in water will have a dramatic impact on the adoption of intervention s ...