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Recent advances in 3D structure printing and 3D direct printed electronics have widened the scope of possibilities for the Internet of Things (IoT). New near room temperature 3D direct ink writing (DIW) additive manufacturing (AM) printing processes allow many different type of sensors and they can be embedded anywhere in a structure, which offers several benefits. 1. Protection: sensors face degr ...

The variational two-electron reduced-density matrix (v2RDM) method provides an effective framework for computer modeling of the electronic structure of complex molecules and materials that exhibit strong correlation effects. In Phase I and Phase II of this STTR we have demonstrated that the GPU-accelerated implementation of the v2RDM-based complete active space self-consistent field (v2RDM-CASSCF) ...

Pulse voltammetry techniques, coupled with model-based analysis tools, provide a number of advantages for quantitative analysis of electrochemically active materials that govern the performance of batteries and fuel cells. In prior Phase I and II research, CFD Research developed and validated computational models in software that reads voltammogram data from laboratory instruments; predicts the re ...

The meteoric rise of personally identifying information (PII) created and shared online is unprecedented. The sheer volume of open source intelligence available on sites such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, message forums, Instagram makes the task of collecting and organizing OSINT increasingly laborious for analysts. Novel technologies are largely responsible for creating these challenges, but they ...

Department of Defense (DoD) operations critically rely upon efficient, robust, resilient and secure wireless network communications. Recent emergence of stealth (silent or low-signal) attacks, such as emulating legitimate behaviors or randomizing their footprints, are difficult to detect by the conventional intrusion detection systems. Such stealth attacks can damage communication systems at diffe ...

NadirSAR offers high-resolution imaging of targets, lines of communication, and buildings in urban canyons, rough terrain and light foliage areas. This capability can bridge the gap between down-looking LIDAR sensors and side-looking microwave and foliage penetrating UHF SAR systems such as TRACER. In a previous effort for RRTO, TSC and SDL experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of X-band Nad ...

Robotic Research, LLC in partnership with Tulga Ersal at the University of Michigan have joined forces under Army STTR topic A14A-T018 Intelligent Terrain-Award Navigation and Mobility of Unmanned Ground Vehicles Operating Under Varying Degrees of Autonomy to develop a remote teleoperation* system for driving unmanned vehicles off-road and at high speed. This system shall remain effective in the p ...

Lithium-air batteries have the potential to drastically reduce size and weight of portable power sources for the US Army.However, numerous challenges need to be overcome including the development of electrolytes that are good ionic conductors and electrical insulators, are electrochemically stable, protect the lithium electrode from parasitic reaction and are sufficiently mechanically robust and f ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is vulnerable to radio-frequency (RF) sources of interference and must be defended through electronic protection (EP) measures such as anti-jam (AJ) and anti-spoof (AS). The Phase I effort investigated antenna, electronic, and algorithmic designs for systems capable of supporting direction-finding (DF) measurements while simultaneously performing anti-jam and an ...

As the warfighter is increasingly using more highly integrated instruments, e.g. a laser rangefinder (LRF) combined with a laser designator and an imager, the need to decrease the size of these components becomes more important.Compact small munition applications of rangefinders particularly place an emphasis on size of the optical front end.In order to make the transceiver more compact, special a ...