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Bispectral Obscurants are used to defend troops and equipment from electro-optical and infra-red (EO/IR) detection devices. These obscurants are packaged within small form factor munitions such as a 66mm grenade or hand emplaced units that subsequently release the obscurant material into the air. The US Army is interested in Bispectral Obscurants that can survive high acceleration loads when launc ...

The U.S. Army has a future need for multiple secondary high explosive compositions that can also be used interchangeably as rocket propellants. In this proposal we will discuss a method of preparing such compositions via advanced spray drying technology and involving the use of a highly insensitive spray dried nitramine or CL-20 composition which have been plasticized with an energetic polymer t ...

Operational availability, reliability, and performance of Army weapons systems platforms are key factors in achieving mission success. Aircraft, RADAR, intermediate Missile, and combat vehicles depend on the health of their systems to perform reliably over extended periods of time.  Maintenance of equipment and components, including interconnect cables and connectors, is an important aspect of re ...

There is a growing need for faster target recognition algorithms that also reduce power consumption and information bandwidth. Optical analog computing systems can fill this need by offloading the most computationally expensive tasks to the optics; however, traditional systems are too heavy and bulky for size, weight, and power-constrained platforms. In this work, we will develop a mid-wave infrar ...

Brittle materials such as concrete are used ubiquitously in structural engineering due to their ability to withstand enormous compressive loads. When these materials undergo a high speed impact, however, the reflection of the resultant stress wave can cause moments of tensile stress. Currently, little reliable data is available about brittle materials' tensile stress and strain information at high ...

Emerging digital RF and radio technologies have enabled the design, development, and demonstration of novel waveforms. Quasi-Orthogonal waveforms, in particular, have resulted in reciprocal bistatic and/or multi-channel capabilities which have the potential to dramatically improve performance of radar systems. The use of these algorithms in war-fighter focused applications should be quantified in ...

Obscurant technologies continue to be of high value to today’s Warfighter, what has evolved from smoke released from a canister are now high precision manufactured structures designed for individual targeted use cases. While the technology to model, design, and manufacture these items has increased, testing methodologies and apparatus have largely been restricted to large scale events. What is n ...

Genomic and transcriptomic biomarkers have been identified that can be utilized for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring including cancers, cardiovascular health, depression, and sepsis. Genetic variations have also been identified that affect pharmacokinetics as well as pharmacologic effects of specific drugs. Current methods for detection and quantification of these nucleic acid biomarke ...

Phages are becoming important players as therapy candidates against multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections affecting both military and civilian populations. There is a need to purify and concentrate phages in the field for subsequent analysis in backend specialized laboratory. Phage isolation and cultivation from environmental samples requires expensive, bulky instrumentation and intensive ...

In this SBIR project, a mathematical and numerical framework with efficient conforming methods for the design, analysis, and optimization of the performance of mobility system components will be developed. Phase I effort will focus on the development of automated isogeometric mesh generation to enable the dynamic simulations of surface deformation or relative motion encountered in applications suc ...