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ADA Technologies, Inc. (ADA) and Dr. Massoud Pedram at the University of Southern California (USC) have successfully completed a Phase I STTR effort for the development of a lithium ion (Li-ion)/ supercapacitor hybrid electrical energy storage system (HEESS) to afford pulse power characteristics (projected ~10 kW/kg) in a high energy system (100-150 Wh/kg). The system is enabled via a constant cur ...

Bacteriophages (phages) are becoming important therapeutic candidates against multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. There is a need to isolate and concentrate phages collected from the field to enhance specimen storage stability for long-distance transport to specialized laboratories for subsequent analysis. Environmental phage preparation requires expensive, bulky instrumentation and in ...

Recent advancements in artillery, muzzle velocity, and post-launch propulsion technology have enabled precision guided munitions (PGMs) to travel faster and at longer ranges than ever before. To be most effective in flight and at range, the munitions must incorporate RF sensors to enable advanced, mission-critical functionality. The RF sensors must also be able to survive and operate through extre ...

Technical Abstract: Operational availability, reliability, and performance of Army weapons systems platforms are key factors in achieving mission success.  Army maintainers and depot artisans have a requirement for an intelligent toolset to quickly detect, locate, characterize/classify, and predict wire and connector faults in interconnect cables.  AVNIK Defense Solutions, Inc. (AVNIK) has condu ...

Fast and accurate object detection in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) is critical for many DoD platforms including missile systems. Current object detection algorithms generally employ computationally heavy frontends to perform edge filtering tasks for keypoint identification and blob detection. Offloading the edge filtering tasks to optical components, which perform image differentiation or edge det ...

The commercial development of Thermal Protection Systems (TPS)- the material that protects spacecraft and hypersonic vehicles from extreme heat-has suffered a decade-long innovation drought after the conclusion of the NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter program in

Quantum computer technology is critical and strategic to the Air Force. Quantum processor technology based on topological material (TM) qubits is inherently stable and fault-tolerant because it exploits local topological symmetries. TM are a new class of

Light absorption by aerosols is a key component to atmospheric extinction, and affects a number of processes relevant to the Navy. Satellite and other remotely sensed measurements can be strongly impacted by aerosols, obscuring targets and/or confounding interpretation of data products. Directed energy applications, including weapon and communication systems, are also impacted by absorption, which ...

Research in Flight, Utah State University, MIT, and Syracuse University are proposing the development of a unified hypersonic aircraft design tool that integrates the hypersonic flow analysis capabilities of the commercial FlightStream® flow solver with t

5.0 volt lithium batteries could provide higher power and greater energy density than existing 4.2 volt batteries, but there is currently not a known combination of electrodes and electrolytes that are stable under repeated charge/discharge cycles. Individual components such as the anode, new olivine cathodes and ionic liquid electrolyte are individually stable at these voltages, but they fail at ...