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Improved head and hearing protection is required for aircraft maintainers working on a carrier flight deck during launch and recovery operations. Legacy Flight Deck Cranials are inadequate in many aspects including hearing protection, impact protection, cleaning, comfort, and compatibility with night vision devices (NVDs) and with chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) equipment. In this p ...

From HIV to metastatic cancer, state-of-the-art therapeutics are static biological or pharmaceutical compounds—whose efficacy is inevitably lost once their evolving disease targets sufficiently mutate. We engineered the first adaptive therapeutics designed to co-adapt with adapting disease agents—to provide ‘resistance-proof’ disease control. Known as Therapeutic Interfering Particles (‘ ...

FIRST RF proposes a compact, broadband, highly integrated VHF SAR antenna array which consists of several key enabling technologies demonstrated during Phase I of this program. FIRST RF took an aggressive design approach in Phase I to prove that the conformal wideband antenna array can be used in conjunction with a robust, wideband beamforming network to steer a SAR beam over the desired angular ...

The current use of polymer matrix composite materials aboard U.S. Navy ships has been limited to mainly exterior parts such as DDX topside structures, sonar bow domes, towed array fairings, diving planes, control surfaces and the prototype submarine sail dome for VA class submarines. There has been increasing interest in the development of composite materials for applications inside ships and sub ...

MBio Diagnostics proposes to deliver a point-of-care (POC) technology for monitoring host-pathogen interactions during acute severe infection. The system will deliver a quantitative panel of biomarker immunoassay results using a portable, inexpensive, easy-to-use cartridge and reader. Results will be returned in 30 minutes or less and will require minimal (< 50 µL) blood samples. Initial panels f ...

HYPRES has developed a unique system architecture for an improved military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) receiver. This is based on direct conversion of the RF waveform to digital format using an ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), followed by ultrafast digital processing. The proposed receiver uses both superconductor and semiconductor circuits, both digital and analog, within t ...

The primary objective of this project is to develop a number of classes of novel miniature inertial igniters for thermal batteries that are suitable for gun-fired munitions and mortars. As part of the Phase I efforts, systematic methods have been developed for determining the performance of miniature inertial igniter concepts to all no-fire acceleration profiles, including those due to accidental ...

The Phase II project will develop prototype software OptAgent™, built on the existing foundation of OptQuest®, a commercial metaheuristic-based optimization engine, to provide a generalized framework for the analysis and optimization of agent-based models by combining optimization algorithms, agent-based simulation, and distributed processing. The software will overcome those weaknesses typica ...

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Improved head and hearing protection is required for aircraft maintainers working on a carrier flight deck during launch and recovery operations. Legacy Flight Deck Cranials are inadequate in many aspects including hearing protection and impact protection. In previous work, Creare has developed a Flight Deck Cranial (FDC) that offers unparalleled hearing protection and industrial standard head pro ...