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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 ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a very promising technique for rapid, low-cost production of aircraft parts directly from a CAD file. AM is especially appealing for complex parts that would be costly or impossible to fabricate by machining or casting. At the current time there are no reliable, cost-effective techniques to qualify the finished parts. Several government studies have noted this gap an ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

Discharge of nutrients (e.g. phosphorus and ammonia) to surface waters can cause eutrophication and the formation of toxic algal blooms, threatening human health and the environment. However, current phosphorus treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation and conventional biological systems can be costly and ineffective to reliably achieve impending effluent regulatory limits of

To address the Air Force need for Android mobile device (MD) virtualization and a Mediated Mobile Access (MMA) solution, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance development of a new Secure Hypervisor for Mobile Devices (HyperM), which was pr

To address DARPAs need for a more efficient group-to-group communication technology for low size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor ensembles or swarms, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Inter-ensemble Coherent Distributed Communication (ICDC) technology based on a coherent distributed beamforming from a map-based, deterministic signal transmission and reception. Specifical ...

In this SBIR proposal, ProbiusDx aims to develop a non-invasive point of care diagnostic technology for detecting and monitoring blood concentrations of antimicrobial drugs. The ability to measure drug concentrations in a patients blood provides valuable information for individualized optimal dosing, maximal efficacy and reduced potential for undesirable side effects. Our ground-breaking work at ...

The ultimate goal of this proposed effort is to improve OPIR (and other initiating event) follow-on ISR tipping and cueing and satellite bus telemetry data analysis; dramatically shorten the associated response time to new OPIR (and other) events; and improve ISR collection quality, resulting in: improved analyst performance; better-quality schedules; and higher, and better utilization of sensors. ...

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is becoming prevalent in the hospital, especially in the treatment of critically ill patients where pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles are compromised due to severe illness. The ability for doctors to evaluate how much active drug is being delivered in real time can enable adaptive treatment options that will result in better patient outcome while reduci ...

Wireless communications have become ubiquitous for the last two decades, especially with the advent of affordable cellular communications. While cellular systems utilize base stations to ensure connectedness of the network, many situations can arise wherein wireless nodes form a disconnected network. Examples include communication in infrastructure-less regions or in emergency events, with a sudde ...