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Of the 300 million tons of plastic produced per year most will require 500 years to biodegrade. Currently only 9% is recycled, and 50 million tons of thermoset plastic produced annually that can't be recycled. _x000D_ _x000D_ This project will develop a sustainable and easily biodegradable polycarbonate plastic that is uniquely a recyclable thermoset resin. We call it a thermosetting thermoplastic ...

The drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan reminds us that lead remains dangerous and insidious toxicant that can impact public health for months or years before it is detected and remedied.Increasing awareness of lead contamination has motivated the general public to test their own drinking water, but few tools are availiable to help these "citizen scientist" do so effectively.Current lead scre ...

Areté Associates proposes to develop and deliver EnhancerPro 3-D, a near real-time, modular software tool based on Areté’s existing EnhancerPro tool and providing 3-D video and sonar model generation using Structure from Motion (SfM) algorithm toolchain.

The Chief of Naval Operations, in his “Design for Maintaining Superiority,” calls for the implementation of High Velocity Learning (HVL) at every level to accelerate learning as individuals, teams, and organizations. HVL demands that sailors be provided with real opportunities to acquire and master skills as well as opportunities to refresh and practice highly perishable skills. HVL also must ...

Point-to- point Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication systems have been demonstrated and are commercially available. FSO systems have many desirable attributes for Navy vessels and aircraft, especially their ability to operate without RF emissions and their immunity to RF interference and jamming. However, to achieve widespread use in naval applications, a more advanced communication network is r ...

Situational awareness for small tactical units is a driving imperative for Force Protection and mission success. Legacy technology has fallen short in giving the warfighter small, lightweight and easy to use Unattended Ground Sensor systems to aid in the awareness of activities that could pose a threat or allow him to better complete his mission. New generation Digital Signal Processors, miniaturi ...

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 automated identification and processing of goods and documents using machine-readable barcode identifiers is one of the key enabling technologies underlying most modern logistics system. However, the Navy’s efforts to utilize barcode technology with the Fleet Food Service Management (FSM) system has been often challenged by unique requirements for food service aboard operational vessels, the ...

The objective of the completed Phase I effort was to develop a highly compact and lightweight, rapidly deployable, inflatable sled to facilitate the high-speed surface tow of a disabled undersea vehicle. Currently, no man-portable solution exists. The driving mission requirements for the inflatable sled are a weight objective of 150 lb and a stowage objective of 24 in24 in36 in. Realizing that the ...

A computational fluid dynamic module for the simulation of small (1-10 µm) reactive solid and molten volcanic particles in gas turbine engines has been proposed. Volcanic ash experimental data is used as a basis for the material properties. A first principles based particle framework has been described that will account for the various physical phenomena in the system. A dual approach has been co ...