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The final product will include a suite of three app-based puzzle games aligned to national math standards for number sense, algebraic thinking, and problem solving. The games will be designed for use in grade 5 and 6 classrooms where students develop and apply content expertise to solving challenges. The games will include an adaptive engine that assesses and adjusts content based on student level ...

Industrial Microbes is developing a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemical production with newer methods that build chemicals out of methane and carbon dioxide.Chemical production is a major source of carbon pollution, responsible for 18% of direct industrialemissions. Our innovation is an engineered microbe that can consume carbon dioxide and methane and produce a ch ...

The fundamental problem addressed by this SBIR proposal is the capability to uncover new entity types, relations and topics that are implicit in text documents.Joint inference offers an opportunity to make discoveries that are more accurate and more nuanced than traditional pipelined approaches, but the hypothesis space is more complex and extraordinarily large.In this project we propose to develo ...

To address the DTRA need to enhance island-mode tactics for defense critical infrastructure (DCI) in the event of commercial power grid loss disruption due to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or high power microwaves (HPMs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an Optimizing power Availability and Sustainability in Islanded Sites (OASIS) strategy based on islanded power management, ...

MATSYS proposes to develop, test and evaluate a scalable metal-based reactive structural material that will self-fragment to micron or sub-micron scale fuel particles when subjected to explosive shock loading, resulting in significantly enhanced metal combustion efficiency. Use of reactive material casings offers the potential for several-fold increases in blast and overpressure by generating rapi ...

This program will demonstrate how additive manufacturing technologies can be used with reactive and high energy materials to create rapid and flexible fabrication of payload and munitions. Our primary approach to this problem will be to use powder bed binder printing techniques to print reactive structures. The anticipated feedstock will consist of composite particles containing all reactant spe ...

MATSYS proposes to adapt emerging additive manufacturing techniques (so-called 3-D Printing) for use with reactive structural materials and demonstrate this capability to rapidly fabricate reactive case. Our concept incorporates two major manufacturing steps: 3D printing of green compacts from pure Al or Al-based reactive powder blend; and Microwave (MW) sintering of green compacts into net-shaped ...

Rock West Solutions' Phase 1 objective is to design, model, and report performance on a radiation spectrometer for use in drive by, low signal count, applications.We will design a custom sensor for DTRA's unique mission and apply our Sparse Signature Identification algorithm to provide isotope identification with confidence assessment for DTRA's mission.

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a widely used forensic technique to study post-nuclear debris fields, radiation-induced damage in solids and many other phenomena surrounding the interaction of radioactivity with solid matter. ESR spectroscopy is also used to analyze dust, smoke and other gaseous samples. Our Micro-ESR technology has the benefit of being an extremely robust, lightweig ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of Moby.Read, a stand-alone app for handheld devices or tablets. Using Moby.Read, grade school students will read a passage out loud and the speech-recognition software will generate an assessment of oral-reading fluency in real-time. The app is intended to replace face-to-face oral reading assessments done by teachers in order to save teachers t ...