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There are many issues that a wind developer must consider when siting a wind project, but one that has become increasingly pressing in the U.S. is the effect of turbines on local wildlife. New onshore wind development is occurring in the US Midwest, MidAtlantic and Northeast, and has brought wind plants into greater conflict with wildlife, especially bats. The burgeoning US offshore wind industry ...

There are many issues that a wind developer must consider when siting a wind project, but one that has become increasingly pressing in the U.S. is the effect of turbines on local wildlife. New onshore wind development is occurring across the entire the U.S. and has brought wind plants into greater conflict with wildlife, especially bats. The burgeoning U.S. offshore wind industry is also contendin ...

HEKTR (Humanoid Engageable Kinetic Training Robot) is a transformational, next generation live-fire training system that dramatically increases soldier lethality while gaining efficiencies in time and resources in order to modernize the Force. HEKTR’s realistic target can be manipulated to replicate both friend and foe allowing the flexibility to frequently change training scenarios in order to ...

Civilian Casualties better known as CIVCAS, is the bane of Law Enforcement Agencies, Security Forces and other combat forces who engage with a potential threat and make incorrect use of force decision making processes. This is due mainly to insufficient and non-realistic training.  MVP Robotics develops robotic training solutions to improve human safety and performance in austere environments.  ...

C55-13a-270397To date, no integrated characterization and predictive modeling workflow has been proposed to optimize Geothermal Battery Energy Storage (GBES) systems in sedimentary formations. Of particular concern is the near wellbore formation integrity of GBES systems that are subject to Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) loading conditions: during injection, storage, and production c ...

We are developing a machine intelligence (MI) that will infer vertical soil water flux from changes in vertical moisture distribution measured using available moisture sensors. This innovation addresses a serious information deficit that limits water management and conservation efforts, and will have immediate societal impact in high value agricultural regions such as California’s Central Valley ...

Solar power is now in many areas the most affordable form of electrical generation, but solar intermittency can negatively affect reliability at high penetrations. Batteries are one means of compensating for short-duration (i.e., seconds to minutes) solar intermittency, but bulk thermal storage is an increasingly competitive alternative option for long-term compensation (hours). Norwich Technologi ...

There are many issues that a wind developer must consider when siting a wind project, but one that has become increasingly pressing in the U.S. is the effect of turbines on local wildlife. New onshore wind development is occurring in the US Midwest, MidAtlantic and Northeast, and has brought wind plants into greater conflict with wildlife, especially bats. The burgeoning US offshore wind industry ...

This Phase II effort will consist of ATA with PSU ARL to utilize the tools developed in Phase I to design, construct and test a full scale magnetic HWIL prototype test bed to be delivered and installed at AFRL's KHILS facility enabling AFRL to design and test various GNC control concepts for systems that use magnetometers and or sensors that use the Earth's magnetic field as their primary sens ...

Improving our current ability to measure the shape of x-ray focusing mirrors is necessary to advance our knowledge of the atomic structure of many types of materials, especially for the latest diffraction-limited light sources within the DOE. X-ray studies at DOE national laboratories of the atomic structure of new materials, biological molecules, etc. are limited by the quality of the x-ray spot ...