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The need for novel weapons to defeat urban targets and rapidly immobalize enemy combatants hiding in bunkers, caves, and basements requires new weapons and tactics. Thermobaric warheads can provide tailored blast response optimized for the defeat of these targets with low collateral damage. In this Phase I SBIR program, Powdermet will develop surface-coated metallic particles that can deliver tail ...

For effective protection against radiated threats, it is important to understand not only the physics of the threats, but also to quantify the effects they have on mission-critical electrical systems. Radiated vulnerability and susceptibility testing requires delivery of high peak power and peak electric fields to distant targets. The most practical solution to simulate such environments on large ...

Aret Associates and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) propose an interdisciplinary effort to further develop and validate a robust, operational biomonitoring application that can process soil microbiome data to reliably detect episodic and low-level chronic contamination while maintaining low false alarm rate.The Phase II SBIR work will build upon the successful Phase I proof-of-concept demonst ...

The US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 15,300 non-fatal occupational incidents of respiratory illness during 2016.Many workers are exposed to harmful chemical vapors in the workplace.To study exposures to these vapors, industrial hygienists and environmental scientists use vapor-sampling technologies to measure both intensity and duration of exposures.Current air-sampling techno ...

To address the need for a novel self-propelled tick collection device that is capable of operating in diverse habitats under various environmental conditions, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) has designed and built a new Multifunctional Automated Tick-Collection Rover (MATR) prototype that can be automated or remotely operated to deploy compartment traps and drag flags to collect non-questing and ...

In order to meet the Defense Health Agencys need for addressing the prevention of secondary brain injury from moderate, severe and penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI), ChromoLogic proposes to develop a cerebral trauma recovery (CereTRec) drug delivery system. In particular, CereTRec aims to treat TBI during prolonged field care (PFC) to stabilize casualties who sustain a moderate-severe TBI.I ...

In Phase II, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Intelligent Sensor Closed Loop Anesthesia Delivery (iSCAD) system that was shown to be feasible in meeting the Army Medical Research and Material Command"s need for a closed-loop anesthesia delivery system. The key innovation in the iSCAD is its novel system design based on multisensory fusion that allows acc ...

To address the DHP need for a biometric model to study the effects of dismounted complex blast injury on the pelvis, abdomen, and genitals, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to continue the development of a new Pelvic Model with multi-Sensory Data Acquisition (ELVIS). This proposed model is based on the combined development of a numerical model for blast effect prediction for different im ...

To address the DHA and USAMRMC need for a system to augment a dynamic 3D scene registration using augmented reality (AR), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Educational Medical Simulation and Training Augmented-Reality (EMSTAR) tool proven feasible in Phase I. The tool is based on the unique combination of quick-response (QR) codes with joint color fiducia ...

In order to meet Defense Health Agencys need for anatomically correct, self-healing, synthetic tissues for surgical training, ChromoLogic proposes to develop synthetically formulated anatomically correct tissues (SYNFACT). Surgical training models will b