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Battlespace awareness within the space domain is crucial for protection of high-value assets (HVAs). Counterspace measures such as direct-ascent anti-satellite weapons have been demonstrated as early as 1959 and continue to pose a threat to spaceborne objects. Co-orbital threats represent a subset of counterspace measures from objects already in-orbit and may be kinetic or non-kinetic. Development ...

  Private Tech is currently building the infrastructure to connect to the global telco network as a “full” Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). Our solution protects subscribers’ locations, identities, and communications from adversaries, from telcos,

BTech proposes a directional hydrophone for acoustic noise measurements for various host platforms including floats, gliders, and observation buoys. The BTech design is provided in Phase I report including sensing concept and configuration, mechanical packing, power consumption, communication interfaces, sensor (re)calibration methodology, algorithms to extract the information content of the ocean ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is a tool to help mitigate the wildfire crisis in the western United States. Prescribed burns are one of the most effective ways to prevent the uncontrolled, large-scale wildfires that devastate entire ecosystems, communities, and economies, but the environmental assessment required for burns may delay ...

Textile scrims can be engineered to function as robust electromechanical sensors capable of measuring strains present in composite bondlines.  During the proposed effort, the project team seeks to optimize and characterize the performance of these strain

The application of benchmarking tools in healthcare can be challenging due to the inherent diversity of patient populations (i.e.; some patient groups are sicker than others).  Alexandria Health has generated a novel machine learning based transparent ben

NASA and industry are expressing a growing interest in autonomous robotic in-space assembly and servicing of large aperture space telescopes in cislunar space and at Sun-Earth L2 (SEL2). The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will operate at SEL2 for about 5-10 years until fuel for station keeping and attitude maneuvers is depleted. At this point JWST will essentially become inope ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is the introduction of a new wind farm control strategy that is expected to increase the power generated by a typical wind farm by 3-10%.Wind farm owners and operators face continuous pressure to reduce the price per megawatt-hour of the grid energy that they produce.Improving the energy yield ...

Project Summary Skin is the first line of defense against the outside environment. When the skin barrier is breached by UV irradiation (UVR) or toxic chemicals, living cell layers including epidermal keratinocytes, melanocytes and dermal fibroblasts are subjected to DNA damage. If unrepaired, this damage can lead to photoaging and cutaneous carcinogenesis. In fact, skin cancer is by far the most c ...

Summary Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. with a 5-year survival rate of andlt;9%. The poor prognosis is partially due to resistance to standard of care treatments including gemcitabine (Gem) and Gem+nab-paclitaxel (n-PTX). The transcription factors HIF-1α and c-MYC are at the center of the mechanisms producing Gem and n-PTX resistance ...