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Laboratory investigations have suggested that acoustically or vibrationally inducing motion in buried targets can aid in improving target detectability through a characteristic response related to differential target motion. This gain is realized by adding an additional degree of freedom, modulation due to motion in the GPR return signal, to use as a discriminating feature. The AKELA team is propo ...

This STTR project will develop and validate a robust, scalable computational capability for the simulation of weapon-target interactions of interest to the Army. The proposed algorithm is based on the FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particle) - MPM (Material PointMethod) - MFM (Multiphase Flow Method) approach and the CartaBlanca nonlinear solver environment developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Car ...

There is an unmet demand for ultra-low-power, ultra-compact and low-cost radios to address emerging sensing and communication needs for military and commercial applications such as IoT/IoE. To overcome the limitations in existing bulky and power hungry radios, we propose a disruptive solution by integration of a nano-scaled THz transceiver, on-chip antenna, and energy harvesting circuits in a form ...

Chemical warfare agents with their low vapor pressure can stay on a surface for long periods of time and pose a serious threat to anyone coming into contact with the surface. A standoff sensor that can visualize and identify such a threat is of greatinterest to the US military.Pacific Advanced Technology (PAT) has a technology with the capability of standoff detection and the potential for identif ...

Chemical warfare agents with their low vapor pressure can stay on a surface for long periods of time and pose a serious threat to anyone coming into contact with the surface. A standoff sensor that can visualize and identify such a threat is of greatinterest to the US military.Pacific Advanced Technology (PAT) has a technology with the capability of standoff detection and the potential for identif ...

In response to the Army STTR Topic A14A-T015 solicitation for tunable high-power LWIR lasers for standoff detection applications, Pranalytica proposed to develop a compact, rugged and highly reliable wavelength tunable quantum cascade laser (QCL) module delivering over 5W of peak power and over 0.5W of average power in the spectral region spanning from 7 to 11m. The proposed approach is based on a ...

A human produces more than 100 Watts of waste heat during normal activity. If a fraction of this heat energy can be harvested it can replace the stored chemical energy in one or more of the batteries typically carried by soldiers in the field. The current generation batteries, such as the BB2590 are bulky and rigid. The PowerFelt material developed by Wake Forest University is ideally suited for h ...

Surface Optics Corporation (SOC) teamed with the University of California, Irvine, proposes an exploratory study aimed at the development of an inexpensive portable optical tagging system with smart retro-reflective tag, encoding, and sensors needed fortracking and identification of U.S. military assets. The encoded tag can be either affixed to, or printed onto, military vehicles. Cost effective ...

The University of Wisconsin and Toyon Research Corporation propose developing a software package in the R statistical environment for estimating generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) from multilevel, categorical data (e.g., binary, ordinal ormultinomial data). The proposed software package should enable data analysts and researchers to more accurately model and understand this type of su ...

The University of Wisconsin and Toyon Research Corporation propose developing a software package in the R statistical environment for estimating generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) from multilevel, categorical data (e.g., binary, ordinal ormultinomial data). The proposed software package should enable data analysts and researchers to more accurately model and understand this type of su ...